Whats On Autumn Winter 2009

what's on theatre concert film art

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Any problems call Adrian 01695 727555 or e-mail aptayler@btconnect.com
Ticket prices are approximate. We will pass on any group discounts we get.
The meal is always extra unless indicated otherwise

Date	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 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 16^th February 6pm for 7.30, eat at Olivers, Birley Street	Concert: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Preston Guild Hall Weber, Chopin and Schumann.	Book with Gordon 01772 510186 or gordonjbenson@googlemail.com £17.
Saturday 27^th February matinee 1.45 for 2pm Meal afterwards	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, 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	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: 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 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	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	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 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 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	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, 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	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	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	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	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, 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: 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	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	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	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, 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	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	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	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	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 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, 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 25th Anniversary Lowry Manchester EARLY BOOKING ESSENTIAL	Book with Margery Comer 01254 702647 or margery-earnsdale@tiscali.co.uk £47

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