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Event and Venue

Booking before ...

Let the Organiser know if you are entitled to a CONCESSION.  Prices shown and online payments are full price.

Book at least 2 WEEKS IN ADVANCE or 2 months for West End shows to avoid disappointment.

Friday 12th February

7.30pm

 

 

Play:'Murder on the Titanic'

Samlesbury Hall

a night to remember presented by the After Dark Theatre Company - fabulous, frightening and fun live interactive detective drama + a superb 3 course dinner in the Great Hall

Book with Marjorie Barnes

01772 672846 or marjorie.barnes@blueyonder.co.uk 

£29.95

sold out

 

Saturday 13th February 2010

Meet 5.30pm at Cocotoo, Whitworth St West

les miserables

Les Misérables

Palace Theatre, Manchester

the world's longest running musical comes to Manchester

Book with Margery C 01254 702647 or margery-earnsdale@tiscali.co.uk 

Tickets £43.50 + any booking fee

SOLD OUT

Tuesday 16th February

6pm for 7.30, eat at Olivers, Birley Street

conductor

Concert: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Preston Guild Hall

Weber, Chopin and Schumann.

 

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com

£17.

Saturday 27th February

matinee

1.45 for 2pm

Meal afterwards

 

play I ought to be in pictures

Play: "I ought to be in Pictures"

Library Theatre, Manchester

Neil Simon's touching comedy tells how Hollywood screenwriter Herbert Tucker is down on his luck. One day Libby, the daughter he abandoned 20 years before but is now an aspiring New York actress, turns up unannounced.  Herbert thinks he can get his daughter into films.  Libby thinks she can repair her dad's love life.  Special pre-show talk by the director for this performance.

Book with Adrian 01695 727555 or aptayler@btconnect.com

Book by 10th February

£16.50 (less if we get a group discount)

 

Booking closed

Sunday 28th February

jazz at the continental

Jazz at the Continental, Preston
Live jazz at the new Continental by the river at 9pm. Possibility of pub meal before. Contact organiser for details.

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com

Friday 5th March
6/7.30
eat at Mamma’s, Topping Street
 

lord arthur

Play: Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime

– Oscar Wilde
Blackpool Grand

Gary Wilmot, Kate O’Mara and Derren Nesbitt star in the Oscar Wilde story. Lady Windermere reads Lord Arthur’s palm and tells him that he will be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder…

Book with Marjorie Barnes
01772 672846 or marjorie.barnes@blueyonder.co.uk

 

£22


 

Saturday 6th March
6/7.30
eat at Gio’s
 

concert

Concert: Scottish Fiddle Orchestra
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

A lively and entertaining evening of jigs, reels, strathspeys, waltzes, songs and beautiful slow airs.
 

Book with Margery Comer
01254 702647 or margery-earnsdale@tiscali.co.uk 
£19

Weds 10th March
6/7.30
eat at Mamma’s, Topping Street
 

witness

Witness for the Prosecution – Agatha Christie
Blackpool Grand

Emily French, an elderly woman who recently left her considerable estate to the charming young Leonard, is found dead. Murdered. Though he protests his innocence, Leonard quickly becomes the prime suspect. Will the truth be revealed in time?

Book with Marjorie Barnes
01772 672846 or marjorie.barnes@blueyonder.co.uk  £22


 

Friday 12th March
6/7.30
eat at Olivers, Birley St
 

concert

Lancashire Sinfonietta Strings
Preston Minster

Concert: Elgar ”Serenade for Strings”, Dvorak “Serenade”, Barber “Adagio”
 

Book with Marjorie Barnes
01772 672846 or marjorie.barnes@blueyonder.co.uk  £11/ £6

Tuesday 16th March
6/7.30
eat at Mamma’s, Topping Street
 

rat pack

The Rat Pack – tribute show
Blackpool Grand

Take a trip back in time to the glamorous, glitzy nights of Las Vegas in the late 1950s and early 60s to see three of the world’s most popular entertainers, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin performing at the famous Sands hotel

Book with Marjorie Barnes
01772 672846 or marjorie.barnes@blueyonder.co.uk  £19.50


 

Friday 19th March
7/8.30
eat at
Automatic café-bar
 

blues guitar

Blues concert: Preston Reed
Bury Met

A New York visionary credited with reinventing the acoustic guitar. He fuses chord-based grooves, soaring melodic runs and polyrhythmic percussion with his breathtaking two-handed style. Unlike many instrumentalists, the power and depth of Reed's original songwriting is as unique as the man's execution, as blues, rock, funk and jazz meet.

Book with Chris Bradbury
01204 852848 or chrisbradbury1@btinternet.com
£9/£7
 

Saturday 20th March
Matinee
Meet 2.45, eat afterwards
 

glengarry glenross

Glengarry Glen Ross – play
Library Theatre, Manchester

Meet four desperate Chicago real estate salesmen. This month’s top guy wins a gleaming Cadillac, the runner-up takes home a set of steak knives, the rest get the sack. A sizzling drama of hard-driven men on the edge which won a Pulitzer Prize
 

Book with Adrian
01695 727555 or aptayler@btconnect.com  £16.50

Thursday 25th March
6/7.30
meal tba
 

and did those feet

Play: “And did those Feet”
Bolton Octagon

It’s 1923 and Bolton Wanderers have made it to the FA cup final. What happens when your wedding day clashes and everyone is going to the match!
 

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com  £12.50

Sunday 28th March

jazz at the continental

Jazz at the Continental, Preston
Live jazz at the new Continental by the river at 9pm. Possibility of pub meal before. Contact organiser for details.

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com

Saturday 3rd April
6/7.30

eat at Pizza Express
 

sleeping beauty ballet

Ballet: Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty
Royal Birmingham Ballet, Lowry Manchester

With a classical score by Tchaikovsky and original choreography by Marius Petipa, The Sleeping Beauty is considered one of the greatest ballets from Imperial Russia.
 

Book with Margery C 01254 702647 or margery-earnsdale@tiscali.co.uk 
£27

Friday 9th April
7.30
 

salmesbury hall

Murder at Fawlty Towers – murder mystery
Salmesbury Hall

Includes 3-course dinner in the Great Hall.

Book early!  Limited numbers.
 

Book with Marjorie Barnes
01772 672846 or marjorie.barnes@blueyonder.co.uk  £29.95
 

Saturday 17th April
Matinee

1.45/2pm
eat afterwards
 

comedians

The Comedians – play
Bolton Octagon

It’s 1975 in a schoolroom near Manchester. Eddie Waters, a respected northern comedian, runs an evening class for would-be comedians.
Tonight is the last lesson before they present their acts in front of a traditional northern audience.

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com  £12.50

Monday 19th April
Contact Adrian for details
 

film evening

Reel Deal Film Night
Cornerhouse Manchester

Pizza, a drink and cinema ticket. Programme not announced until the week before.
 

Book with Adrian
01695 727555 or aptayler@btconnect.com 
£13


 

Sunday 25th April

jazz at the continental

Jazz at the Continental, Preston
Live jazz at the new Continental by the river at 9pm. Possibility of pub meal before. Contact organiser for details.

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com

Tuesday 27th April
6/7.30
eat at Olivers, Miller Arcade
 

classical concert

Classical Concert: Preston Guild Hall
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic play Richard Strauss “Till Eulenspiegel”, Shostakovich Symphony No.6, Mozart Piano Concerto
 

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com 
Price tba
 

Saturday 1st May
6/8pm
eat at the Borough,
Dalton Square
 

jazz at the continental

Concert: Lancashire Sinfonietta
The Dukes, Lancaster

Classical/jazz fusion. One of the UK’s top saxophonists, Andy Scott plays alongside the Lancashire Sinfonietta
 

Book with Marjorie Barnes
01772 672846 or marjorie.barnes@blueyonder.co.uk 
£11/£6
 

Saturday 8th May
7.30
meal tba
 

classical conductor

Charity Concert: RLPO and Carl Davies, Stanley Grange near Preston/Blackpool
Light classical music in aid of the Design for Life appeal
 

Book with Margery Comer
01254 702647 or margery-earnsdale@tiscali.co.uk 
£11.75
 

Thursday 20th May
6/7.30
meal tba

rafta rafta

Play: Rafta Rafta
Bolton Octagon

A hilarious and warm-hearted play, set in Bolton's close-knit Asian community. The wedding feast is over and the young couple moves in with the groom’s parents. But how can they live happily ever after when the groom feels inhibited by the intrusive presence of his parents in the bedroom next door, his father’s constant disapproval and his brother’s childish pranks?

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com  £12.50

Sunday 30th May

jazz at the continental

Jazz at the Continental, Preston
Live jazz at the new Continental by the river at 9pm. Possibility of pub meal before. Contact organiser for details.

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com

Monday 31st May
6/7.30

eat at Bistro Pierre
 

woman in black

Play: “The Woman in Black”
Liverpool Playhouse

A lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a ‘Woman in Black’, engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul. Play now in 21st year in the West End.

Book with Adrian
01695 727555 or aptayler@btconnect.com 
£16


 

Thursday 10th June
6/6.50
 

Haydock Races Evening Meeting
2-course meal in Colours Restaurant in the Centenary Stand; £50 for meal and access to the course.
 

Book with Adrian
01695 727555 or aptayler@btconnect.com 
 

Saturday 12th June
Matinee
2.45
eat after
 

earnest

Play: Importance of Being Earnest
Library Theatre, Manchester

“A handbag?!” This “trivial play for serious people” - as Oscar Wilde dubbed it - is full of social and sexual ironies beneath its sunny and blithely irresponsible surface.  Final show at the Library Theatre.
 

Book with Adrian
01695 727555 or aptayler@btconnect.com 
£16.50
 

Saturday 19th June

Contact Gordon for details

 

quarry bank

History Tour: Quarry Bank Mill
Styal (nr Manchester Airport)

One of Britain's greatest industrial heritage sites, showing how a complete industrial community lived. Cotton mill, waterwheel, apprentices’ house, secret garden. Trip will include lunch.
 

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com

Cost tba

Tuesday 22nd June

Contact Adrian for details

 

film evening

Reel Deal Film Evening
Cornerhouse, Manchester

Pizza, a drink and cinema ticket. Programme not announced until the week before.
 

Book with Adrian
01695 727555 or aptayler@btconnect.com
£13
 

Saturday 26th June
7.30
 

meal

Meal at the Clog & Billycock
Pleasington nr Blackburn

Menu and cost from the organiser.
 

Book with Marjorie Barnes
01772 672846 or marjorie.barnes@blueyonder.co.uk  Book by 4th June.
 

Sunday 27th June

jazz at the continental

Jazz at the Continental, Preston
Live jazz at the new Continental by the river at 9pm. Possibility of pub meal before. Contact organiser for details.

Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com

Saturday 21st August

les miserables

Les Miserables 25th Anniversary
Lowry Manchester

EARLY BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Book with Margery Comer
01254 702647 or margery-earnsdale@tiscali.co.uk 
£47
 

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