Summer 2012
September to December 2011
your town hall events guide
Princess Alexandra Walk Huddersfield. HD1 2SU T: 01484 223200
Holmfirth Tourist Information 49-51 Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth. HD9 3JP T: 01484 222444
Dewsbury Town Hall Wakefield Old Road, Dewsbury. WF12 8DQ T: 01924 324501
Cleckheaton Town Hall Bradford Road Cleckheaton BD19 3RH T: 01274 335003
Batley Town Hall Market Square Batley WF17 5DA
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rediscover your town halls... Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Cleckheaton and Batley Town Halls are ideal places to host an event in unique surroundings… Weddings and Celebrations Conferences Main Stage Shows Award Ceremonies Fashion Shows Exhibitions Dinner Dances Meetings Community Use For further details of availability and our competitive pricing please ring 01484 221900
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Huddersfield Dewsbury Cleckheaton Batley
Shall We Dance TEA DANCE
THE SLIPPERY BELLE BURLESQUE & CABARET
Wed 18th Apr 1-3pm Wed 30th May 1-3pm
Saturdays from 8.15pm 21st April 19th May
An afternoon of Ballroom and Latin social dancing. Including Waltz, Quickstep, Jive and cha cha cha. Tickets £3 book in advance. Price also includes a cupcake! Refreshments 50p
GLORIOUS VOICES Finale Choral Concert Sun 13th May 7.30pm Tickets £8 + concs
LUNCHTIME CHAMBER CONCERT Wed 16th May 12.30pm Tickets £5 + concs
MANCHESTER CAMERATA From Salzburg to Paris Thu 17th May 7.30pm
A night of vintage glamour, retro decadence and old fashioned debauchery slinks into Dewsbury Town Hall! Prepare to be seduced by our burlesque performers, enamoured with our cabaret singers and shocked by our cheeky compere! A fun and flirty show guaranteed to leave you wanting more! Dress to impress and join us for some cabaret like no other in the spectacular Victorian concert hall, which has been transformed with table seating so you can enjoy a drink whilst taking in the show. Tickets £11, £13 on the door
Tickets from £6.50 + concs
DEWSBURY AND HEAVY WOOLEN BEER AND CIDER FESTIVAL Thu 24th to Sat 26th May
The UK’s number one
For further details and tickets visit: Www.dewsburybeerfestival.co.uk
comedy
JUMP AND SHOUT An evening of dance performed by local children and adults Mon 28th May 7.30pm
returns to
Tickets £5 + concs, on sale from 30th April
company Dewsbury Town Hall 2 hours of top stand-up in a cabaret style setting with
Dewsbury Collegians present FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
your compere and 3 of the biggest and
Tue 12th to Sat 16th June 7.15pm
Buy 9 Tickets Get 10th Free!
A moving yet often humorous story. It is one of the musicals that stand the test of time and is always worth seeing.
brightest new stars on the comedy circuit! Tickets £11 in advance, £13 on the door
Thu 10th May 8pm and Fri 19th Oct. 8pm
Tickets from £10 + concs Batley Jubilee Chorus present THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT! Sat 30th June 7.30pm Tickets from £9 + concs Dewsbury Arts Group 50th SUMMER ART EXHIBITION Sat 7th to Sat 14th July 11am-4pm Free Entry. Closed Sun 8th
FREDDIE STARR Mon 8th October 7.30pm Tickets £20 and selling fast!
ORGAN CONCERT Mon 16th April 1pm Tickets £5 + concs
Friday 18th May 7.30pm
Sarah Millican Thoroughly Modern Millican Wed 18th April 8pm SOLD OUT! SLAITHWAITE PHILHARMONIC Sat 21st April 7.30pm Tickets from £10 + concs
Tickets £19.50
LIVE AND UNSIGNED NORTHERN AREA FINAL Sun 20th May For details and tickets visit: www.liveandunsigned.uk.com
PASSION 4 FASHION Thu. 26th April 6.15pm Balcony Tickets £2 HUDDERSFIELD PHILHARMONIC with special guest Huddersfield Choral Society Sat 28th April 7.30pm Tickets from £10 + concs
FROM THE JAM Fri 29th June 8pm
Sat 26th May 5pm
From the Jam features Bruce Foxton from the original Jam line up. Bruce is joined by Russell Hastings and Mark Brzezicki. Standing Tickets £20
Ray McVay presents the Glenn Miller Orchestra bringing the 40's back to Huddersfield! The Moonlight Serenades, the Uptown Hall Gang all get together for an unforgettable evening Tickets £18 + concs
Shall We Dance TEA DANCE
ORCHESTRA OF OPERA NORTH The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Wed 18th July
Thu 31st May 7.30pm
Contact Box Office for further details
An extra special concert to launch the weekend of national celebrations marking the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Tickets £13.50
autumn preview...
JONGLEURS COMEDY ON THE ROAD
The UK’s number one comedy company returns to Huddersfield! Jongleurs, brings the biggest & funniest stars from the comedy clubs to your Town Hall! Three
COLNE VALLEY MALE VOICE CHOIR Featuring Black Dyke Band and Colne Valley Boys Thu 17th May 7.15pm Tickets from £8
Purveyors of Cool' come to Huddersfield Town Hall with a sensational show featuring the greatest music of the 20th century and recreating those wonderful memories of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Junior. Great fun and favourites - Come Fly With Me, Under My Skin, Mr Bojangles, Lady Is A Tramp, That's Amore, Mack The Knife.
Tickets £25 and £19. Cabaret Seating £25
Buttershaw St Pauls AODS Juniors
THE CARD Mon 16th to Wed 18th April 7pm The story of an Entrepreneur in a very funny Musical set in the 1900s, with catchy songs by Jacky Trent and Tony Hatch Presented by Cleckheaton and Spenborough AODS
Tickets £10
Lauren J Dance Academy present LJ's CABARET Sat 28th April 7pm L J's Cabaret is a hand clapping and feet tapping performance, displaying talents of children aged 3yrs. A fun packed evening of song, dance & gymnastics awaits you. Tickets £8 + concs B.I.G.O. presents ROY ORBISON THE LEGEND WITH SPECIAL GUESTS Sat 5th May 8pm Remember: In dreams, Only the lonely, Its over and Oh pretty woman. Meet the people that wrote the songs, plus former band members along with a wonderful live band. The UK Teenkings. Tickets £15 + concs
Wed 16th to Sat 19th May 715pm Cleckheaton and Spenborough Amateurs present the musical play "Acorn Antiques" by Victoria Wood. Based on the popular TV series and the West End Musical. The show set in a antique shop is fun from start to finish. Do you remember Mrs Overall, Miss Babs and Mr Clifford? They are all here to entertain you. Tickets from £6 to £12
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION JUBILEE CONCERT Sat 2nd June 2pm Celebrate the Diamond Jubilee in rousing style with The Clifton and Lightcliffe Band under the baton of their Musical Director, John H Clay. Tickets FREE Available in person only from Cleckheaton Town Hall Box Office from 21st May. Limited 2 tickets per person.
Come help us celebrate our 25th anniversary year! 6th to 8th July 2012 www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Rhod Gilbert The Man with the Battenberg Tattoo Fri 26th October 8pm Tickets £25
Stars of the Opera Fri 30th November 7.30pm Jimmy Carr Gagging Order Fri 14th September 8pm
ANDY MCNAB AUTHOR TALK Mon 11th June 7.30pm Tickets only £2!
Tickets £25 and selling fast!
From Nessun Dorma to Bohemian Rhapsody, O Sole Mio to Unchained Melody, this is the show for opera fanatics and popular music fans alike.
Tickets £19* *if purchased before 31.08, £22 thereafter
SLAITHWAITE PHILHARMONIC Featuring Veronika llinskaya Saturday 16th June 7.30pm Tickets from £10 + concs HUDDERSFIELD PHILHARMONIC Gala Opera Night Sat 23rd June 7.30pm Tickets from £5 + concs
cleckheaton
GLEDHOLT VALE VOICE CHOIR Gala Concert featuring Brighouse and Rastrick Band and Marsh Ladies Choir Sat 12th May 7.15pm Tickets from £5
Tickets £17.50
Thu 7th June 8pm Sat 22nd Sept 8pm 29th November 8pm
*£13 on the door
Fri 25th May 7.30pm
Stewart Francis Outstanding in his Field Sun 21st October 8pm
An afternoon of Ballroom and Latin social dancing.
comedians, Two Hours of Laughter all for £11*
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC The New World Thu 10th May 7.30pm Tickets from £7.50 + concs
cleckheaton huddersfield
The most successful and popular touring show of its kind ‘Beyond the Barricade’ comes to Huddersfield for the first time with a brand new show. Recreating original West End & Broadway musical hit songs with amazing authenticity, ‘Beyond the Barricade’ features a cast of past principal performers from the West End production of Les Miserables, and This production will include songs from Miss Saigon, The Lion King, Phantom Of The Opera, Love Never Dies, Mamma Mia, Blood Brothers and The Jersey Boys, climaxing with a spectacular finale from, of course, Les Miserables!
GLEN MILLER ORCHESTRA
batley huddersfield
huddersfield
YORKSHIRE YOUTH CHOIR SPRING CONCERT A Concert of Choral Entertainment Sat 14th April 7.30pm Tickets £10 + concs
Marc Almond Pop Troubadour Tour Tue 18th September 8pm Tickets £23.50
Kate Rusby At Christmas Sat 1st December 7.30pm Tickets £22.50, U16s £14 On sale from 27th April
Batley Gilbert and Sullivan Society THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD
Millennium Stage Productions present THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY
Wed 25th to Sat 28th April. Evening 7.30pm. Sat Matinee 2.30pm
Thu 5th to Sat 7th July 7.30pm
Intrigue in the Tower! Colonel Fairfax is to be executed but seeks to outwit his scheming accuser by marrying before his death Elsie, a strolling player agrees to the match know the marriage will last only an hour. But the Colonel escapes! - what’s to become of Elsie? Tickets £10+ concs (concessions not available Fri / Sat evening) Saturday Matinee £5 for under 16’s
The Larkin family live in idyllic, rural bliss; Pop makes a fortune from a variety of deals, but has never paid income tax. Mr Charlton, a young, earnest Tax official turns up one hot, May afternoon in 1957, intending to persuade Pop to ‘pay up’. ‘Charlie’ is instantly bewitched by Mariette, the Larkin’s eldest daughter, and soon falls into the ‘Country way of life’. Tickets £8. OAPs £6, Child £5 On sale from 1st May
Applause Theatre School present MAGICAL MUSICALS Wed 9th to Fri 11th May 7pm Tickets £10 + concs Batley Thespians present LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Wed 16th to Sat 19th May 7.15pm. Down and out in Skid Row floral assistant Seymour becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon ‘Audrey II’ grows into an ill-tempered R&B singing carnivore offering him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its own growing appetite… but as Audrey II’s hungry demands increase, all that Seymour holds dear is threatened and the plant’s sinister agenda for global domination is revealed… Tickets £12 (concessions available Wednesday and Thursday performances only)
Hammonds Saltaire Brass Band QUEENS JUBILEE CONCERT Includes a Last Night of the Proms Finale! Sat 9th June 7.15pm Tickets £10 + concs On sale from 1st May
Presented by Carlinghow Theatre Company Wed 12th to Sat 15th September "With sumptuous music and witty lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a dramatic book by James Goldman the show is a glorious feast of song and dance, whilst cleverly contrasting the folly of youth with the wisdom of maturity." Tickets £12 + concs. On sale from 1st June.