What’s On

WHAT’S ON MARCH 2020

The Phantom of the Opera Until Sat 21 Mar Curve Theatre Tickets from £10 curveonline.co.uk

In its 34th phenomenal year in the West End, The Phantom of the Opera is embarking on a major UK and Ireland tour. The Phantom of the Opera tells the tale of a disfigured musical genius known only as ‘The Phantom’ who haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House. Mesmerised by the talents and beauty of a young soprano, Christine, the Phantom lures her as his protégé and falls fiercely in love with her. Unaware of Christine’s love for Raoul, the Phantom’s obsession sets the scene for a dramatic turn of events where jealousy, madness and passions collide.

Billionaire Boy Wed 4 - Sun 8 Mar De Montfort Hall Tickets from £15 demontforthall.co.uk

Joe Spud is twelve years old and the richest boy in the country. He has his own sports car, two crocodiles for pets and £100,000 a week pocket money. But what Joe doesn't have is a friend. So, he decides to leave his posh school and start again at the local comp. But things don't go as planned for Joe and life becomes a rollercoaster as he tries find what money can't buy! From the award-winning West End producers of Gangsta Granny and Awful Auntie comes this amazing new production of David Walliams' best-selling story!

Fidelio, 17 Mar, Market Harborough Theatre Back Together, 28 Mar, Cinema De Lux

The Phantom of the Opera, 21 Mar, Curve

The Mousetrap Mon 9 - Sat 14 Mar Haymarket Theatre haytheatre.com

Discover why Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has kept people guessing for so long, becoming the longest running show of any kind in the history of theatre. The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house cut off by the snow discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment the identity and the motive are finally revealed. Experience shuddering suspense and a brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner.

Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess Wed 11 - Thu 12 Mar Loughborough Town Hall Tickets £18 loughboroughtownhall.co.uk

In this frank, funny and informative new show, Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen shares heart-warming tales and honest anecdotes from her remarkable farming, family life in North Yorkshire. You’ll hear how Amanda grew up in Huddersfield, but was inspired by James Herriot’s books to leave her town life behind and head to the countryside. After working as a freelance dairy milker and alpaca shearer, she eventually settled down as a shepherdess at Ravenseat, one of the highest and most remote places in England, where she’s raised a flock of 1000 sheep and a family of 9 children with husband Clive.

Arabella Weir Thu 12 Mar The Y Theatre Tickets £17.75 leicesterymca.co.uk

The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down. Does My Mum Loom Big In This? is for everyone who's had a mother or been a mother, featuring hair-raising hilarious true stories from Arabella's dysfunctional childhood and her life as a single working mother. Devastatingly funny, excruciatingly honest and definitely embarrassing for all of Arabella's relatives, not to mention herself, this is a helter-skelter

Fidelio Tue 17 Mar Market Harborough Theatre octagonfilms.org.uk

tour of appalling – and appallingly funny – maternal behaviour.

Cassidy Sun 15 Mar Kilworth House Ticket £69 kilworthhousetheatre.co.uk

Cassidy Janson is a West End theatre star known for her leading roles in Wicked, Chess, and playing Carole King in the award-winning musical Beautiful. After her first album, the successful Songs from the Stage with the Leading Ladies (a supergroup with Beverley Knight and Amber Riley) Cassidy has now released her remarkable debut solo album Cassidy which includes a song given to her by Carole King. Cassidy makes a welcome return to Kilworth with her band and a new show including songs from Beautiful and her new album. Ticket price includes welcome drink, three course dinner plus coffee and petit fours.

Blue Stockings Mon 16 - Sat 21 Mar The Little Theatre Tickets from £14.50 thelittletheatre.net

The nickname ‘Blue Stockings’ described the ‘unnatural’ educated women who, in the 1890s, passed their university exams but went home unqualified and unmarriageable after their university courses. Jessica Swale’s wonderful, moving play will leave you astonished at the prejudices the pioneers of women’s education had to overcome, and full of admiration for the four brave main characters who fought for the right to graduate with humour and Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as Fidelio) who daringly sets out to rescue him. Set in strong counterpoint are the ingredients of domestic intrigue, determined love and the cruelty of an oppressive regime. The music is transcendent throughout and includes the famous Act I Quartet, the Prisoners’ Chorus and Florestan’s impassioned Act II cry in the darkness and vision of hope. Tobias Kratzer’s new staging brings together the dark reality of the French Revolutionary ‘Terror’ and our own time to illuminate Fidelio’s inspiring message of shared humanity.

Back Together Sat 28 Mar Cinema De Lux Tickets from £12.55 showcasecinemas.co.uk

The world's ultimate musical duo, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are Back Together and set to delight cinema audiences up and down the country with the final show of their UK tour at the O2 Arena. Hot on the heels of their star turns in the West End's phenomenally successful staged concert of Les Miserables, Ball and Boe's sensational voices and irresistible chemistry will undoubtedly light up the big screen.

Kilworth is the West End in rural Leicestershire, an extraordinary experience.

26 th May – 5 th July 2020

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S MASTERPIECE – THE GREATEST MUSICAL OF THE 20 TH CENTURY

A DELIGHTFUL MUSICAL COMEDY PACKED WITH EXUBERANT CHOREOGRAPHY, COLOURFUL COSTUMES AND SHOW-STOPPING NUMBERS!

AUCTION FINE ART & ANTIQUES Tuesday 7th April at 10.30am

Including: Jewellery, Ceramics & Glass, Asian Art, Works of Art, Fine Silver, Paintings & Furnishings

Viewing

Friday 3rd April, 10am - 4pm Saturday 4th April, 9am - 12 noon Monday 6th April, 9am - 4pm Tuesday 7th April, 9am - 10:30am

Illustrated: A mid 19th century Egyptian revival suite of scarab jewellery