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27/02/2010 19:15
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Scottish Opera La boheme
This iconic opera tells the story of the love affair between Mimi and the struggling writer Rodolfo. The welcome return of an audience favourite, Tony award-winning director Stewart Laing’s production presents a traditional tale in a meaningful contemporary context - the exciting modern art scene of 21st century New York.
Young artists, living and working in stark studio apartments, turn loft spaces into art galleries. When Rodolfo sees Mimi for the first time, they fall hopelessly in love - but the course of true love rarely runs smoothly. Encompassing dramatic passion and the pain of being young, poor and in love, Puccini’s whirling melodic score moves from revelry to romance as it carries the story toward its tragic conclusion.
Young Irish soprano Celine Byrne and French tenor Avi Klemberg, make their Scottish Opera débuts. Nadine Livingstone (who also takes the title role in this season’s Kátya Kabanová) sings Musetta. Scottish Opera Music Director Francesco Corti conducts.
Sung in Italian with English supertitlesRevival of 2004 production
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09/03/2010 19:30
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The Producers
After the success of their 2009 production of Chess, Paisley Musical and Operatic Society are proud to be staging the Glasgow amateur premiere of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The Producers.
Max Bialystock, a failed Broadway producer, together with his rather meek accountant, Leo Bloom, decide to stage a Broadway flop. They have come to the conclusion that they can make more money with a failure than they can with a success. So Max and Leo search New York for the worst script they can find. Their foolproof scheme gets complicated when their crass and totally tasteless production turns out to be a huge hit with the public.
Adapted from Mel Brooks' 1968 film by the man himself, this hilarious musical comedy opened on Broadway in 2001 where it won 12 Tony Awards. Featuring new music specially written by Mel Brooks for the Broadway stage, with songs including Springtime for Hitler and When You Got It, Flaunt It, he has created a laugh-a-minute musical comedy which is not to be missed.
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17/03/2010 19:30
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Giselle ENB
Presented with new choreography Men Y Men
Giselle is the ultimate Romantic ballet, a tale of innocence, betrayal and the redemptive power of true love. English National Ballet’s traditional staging of this 1841 masterpiece moves from the sunny optimism of Giselle’s idyllic village life to a ghostly, moonlit world of mystery and menace.
Giselle is presented with the prelude Men Y Men, a new choreography by Wayne Eagling. Men Y Men is designed to challenge the men of the Company in a daring and thrilling new piece set to music by Rachmaninov.
Choreographed for eight of the Company's brightest male talents Men Y Men sees men partnering men in an exploitation of the most exciting characteristics of a male ballet dancer; turning, jumping and lifting...
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22/03/2010 20:00
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Hardeep Singh Kohli
Just think Ready Steady Cook but with great cooking (Hardeep was runner-up on the first series of Celebrity Masterchef) and funny anecdotes, all delivered by Glaswegian Hardeep in his own unique way.
'As multi-tasking, multi-media cultural polymaths go, writer, broadcaster, cook, and all-round top bloke Hardeep Singh Kohli is pretty much up there in the can-do stakes' The List
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23/03/2010 20:00
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Sean Lock
Lockipedia is what Sean 'knows' about stuff. Lockipedia can only be accessed live. Lockipedia is funny.
'One of the finest and most original comedians around' Independent'A true master comedian' Time Out
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25/03/2010 20:00
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Dave Gorman
DAVE GORMAN: SIT DOWN, PEDAL, PEDAL, STOP AND STAND UP
Dave Gorman is going back on the road. And when we say 'on the road' we really mean it.
Five years after he last toured the UK he’s embarking on a truly unique stand-up comedy tour. A lot of acts will tell you they’re covering the length and breadth of the country… but Dave’s really doing it. Dave Gorman: Sit Down, Pedal, Pedal, Stop And Stand Up will see the intrepid comedian covering the extremes of the British mainland as he travels from this land’s southernmost point to its northernmost tip, taking in the most easterly and westerly points along the way. If nothing else he’ll get to see four lighthouses.
Dave will be performing each and every night of the journey but as this is a tour that promises to reach parts of the country that other tours just don’t reach, it goes without saying that the venues will sometimes be a little unconventional too. He’ll play in 2000 seat theatres but also 30 seat village halls. He’ll be performing in a barn, the odd hotel function room and – odder still - a railway dining car.
Oh, and did we mention he’s going to do the whole thing on his push bike? The travelling, we mean. Not the gigs. That’d be silly. He’ll be standing up for those. If he still can. He’s 38 and not especially fit. 1500 miles. 32 days in the saddle. 32 nights on the stage. His Mum’s told him not to do it but he won’t listen.
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26/03/2010 00:00
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Paul Merton Impro Chums
Paul Merton, one of the country's funniest and best-loved performers, sets out in Spring 2010 on a brand new UK-wide tour with his world renowned Impro Chums. Paul and his chums, Mike McShane, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch and Suki Webster will create a new and unique comedy show every single night, based entirely on suggestions from the audience, their own finely honed improvisational skills and an almost manic compulsion to show off.
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26/03/2010 20:30
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Jerry Sadowitz
The force of nature that is Jerry Sadowitz is back. Some will come because he gives vent to hatred and frustration on their behalf, others because he is simply one of the most naturally gifted comedians in the country. Add to this the fact that he is widely regarded as one of the best close-up magicians in the world today and the result is a show that has to be seen to be believed.
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27/03/2010 00:00
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Lee Mack - Going Out
A brand new stand-up show for 2009/2010
Critically acclaimed BAFTA-winning comedian Lee Mack returns to the live stage with a hotly anticipated new show. Lee will be bringing his trademark brand of high energy banter, well crafted gags and sharp one-liners to venues across the country on his biggest ever live stand-up tour.
Lee is best known to BBC One viewers as the star of multi-award winning Not Going Out and as team captain on Would I Lie To You?
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27/03/2010 15:00
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Pam Ayres
Pam Ayres brings her current show to Glasgow 35 year after she first appeared on the 'Britain’s Got Talent’ TV show of its day, Opportunity Knocks.Her current show includes material from her best-selling books, Surgically Enhanced, With These Hands, and The Works, along with new poems and stories.
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