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NEWS & EVENTS
What’s On... KILWORTH
SEPTEMBER
STAMFORD
LIVE AT KILWORTH
THURSDAY 23rd SEPT SATURDAY 25th SEPT
Kilworth Hall Theatre hosts its annual live music festival, with something for everyone across the genres of pop, Broadway theatre and classical music.
CATS BY STAMFORD SHOWSTOPPERS Following their debut sell-out production earlier this year of Chicago at the town’s Corn Exchange. Stamford Showstoppers have the pleasure of bringing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats! to the stage. Based on T S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the eponymous felines introduce themselves to Old Deuteronomy and one by one and we see a glimpse into their lives, their antics and their stories.
n Thursday 2nd September: Some Guys Have All the Luck is a tribute to the music of Rod Stewart from Maggie May to We Are Sailing, and from Baby Jane to You’re in My Heart. n Saturday 4th September: Walk Like a Man takes its inspiration from the Jersey Boys production to celebrate the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; Walk Like a Man, Big Girls (Don’t Cry) and Sherry.
n 7pm, matinée at 2pm, Saturday, tickets £16, based at Stamford Corn Exchange, PE9 1PX. Call 01780 766455 or see www.stamfordcornexchange.co.uk.
Mamma Mia! It’s ABBA...!
ABBA FANS DELIGHT! IT’S 21ST CENTURY ABBA, ON THE GREEN IN FRONT OF PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL!
n Thursday 9th September: Fascinating Aida is a hilarious cabaret with a trio of slightly older, slightly cheeky performers. PETERBOROUGH
SUNDAY 29th AUGUST
21ST CENTURY ABBA A superb open-air concert on the green in front of Peterborough Cathedral. The award-winning live ABBA Tribute Band will be playing all the best songs from your favourite Super Swedes. This is an evening of hit after hit with songs you know and love from Waterloo, Mamma Mia, Take a Chance on Me, Super Trouper to many, many more. n Gates 6pm, £22/adults. Peterborough Cathedral, PE1 1XS. Call 01733 355315 or see www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk.
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n Friday 10th September: Jive Talking celebrates the incomparable Gibb Brothers and their songwriting talents as The Bee Gees. n Sunday 12th September: And rounding off Live at Kilworth is the theatre’s ‘Last Night of the Proms’ event with a programme of our best-loved classical music, including Rule Britannia, Jerusalem and the rousing Land of Hope and Glory courtesy of the British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. For enquiries, call 01858 881939 or see www.kilworthhouse.co.uk. Kilworth House, LE17 6JE.
