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Dateline: 25th February, 2003 166 Years of Theatre Newcastle's Theatre Royal has just celebrated its 166th year. The birthday celebrations kicked off at 11am with coffee and a three-foot square birthday cake in the shape of the Theatre's famous columned frontage. The Theatre staff were joined by many of their supporters and partners from the worlds of arts, business, local government and journalists from around the region - as well as members from the cast of Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! which was at the Theatre all week. At the birthday event Peter Sarah announced:
The celebrations continued with a recitation by North East favourite Trevor Fox, of a specially written prologue for the Theatre's birthday by Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall. A happy co-incidence is that it was Matthew Bourne's famous production of Swan Lake that appeared at the end of Billy Elliot. Immediately following the matinee of Nutcracker! the Theatre took advantage of the show's eighteen foot stage cake as a fitting backdrop for a photograph to commemorate the day, Peter Sarah and Matthew Bourne were joined on the technicolour set by the equally technicolour cast from the show, for a truly unique photograph.
Peter Sarah took the opportunity to announce some forthcoming shows:
He also announced two important events for young people in Newcastle:
The Vagina Monologues will play at the theatre for one week from 14th April and the cast will comprise Sorcha Cusack, Gwyneth Strong and Mina Anwar. Every performance will donate a portion of ticket sales to the V-Day Fund, an organisation that provides charitable aid to women and girls who have been victims of abuse and violence. Since May 2001 the West End production of The Vagina Monologues has donated in excess of £70,000 to local charities. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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