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Chess the musical is anything but black and white by Lorraine Gibson With its two protagonists – an American and a Soviet – pitted against one another in a battle to prove who’s the most powerful, Chess has never been more relatable. Written by Sir Tim Rice, he of monumental hits like Evita, Joseph and The Lion King, along with ABBA songwriters, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, Chess is a complex but engrossing rock opera. And with mighty songs like One Night in Bangkok and I Know Him So Well, it no great surprise that it attracts full houses and standing
ovations the world over. Now it’s Christchurch’s turn, as the award-winning Milton Musical Society returns to the Regent’s stage with their take on this anything-but-black-andwhite musical. In a politically-driven, Cold War-era chess tournament, two grandmasters of the game, one from the US and the other from the Soviet Union, clash, not over borders but over a woman who manages one, and loves the other. The metaphor is unmistakable, the tale as old as time.
From Merano to Bangkok, the players, lovers, politicians and spies manipulate and are manipulated to a pulsing rock score that also includes: Heaven Help My Heart, Nobody’s Side, Someone Else’s Story and Anthem. The original One Night in Bangkok, performed by Murray Head with Anders Glenmark, was a worldwide smash, reaching number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, while I Know Him So Well, by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson was number one in the UK charts for four weeks in February 1985.
Chess opened in London’s West End the following year and stayed for three! It enjoyed a West End revival in 2018 and has been popular all over Europe. This is Milton Musical Society’s first production at the Regent Centre prepandemic. Its previous best-selling productions include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Oklahoma. Curtain up is from Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 April at 7.30 pm with a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. Tickets: £18 (concessions £17) from www.regentcentre. co.uk or 01202 499199.
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SUPERSONIC 70s SHOW
SNAKE DAVIS & HIS BAND
PLEA S KEEP E CHEC KI OUR NG WEBS ITE
THE DUKE (12A)
Wimborne Musical Theatre Society presents Wimborne Musical Theatre LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Thur 7th - Sat 9th April 7.30pm Matinee - Sat 9th April 2.30pm Thursday£16, 7th - Saturday 9th April 2022 Tickets Concessions £14
11th, 12th & 13th April 7.30pm Matinee 13th April 2.30pm Tickets £8 Eve, Mat £7, U16s £6
Seniorover Citizens 16 - £14.00 (BoxTickets Office£16.00, bookings £20& Children incur £1under booking fee)
(Box Office bookings over £20 incur £1 booking fee)
4th & 5th April
Friday 1st April 7.30pm Tickets £21.50 (Box Office bookings over £20 incur £1 booking fee)
EXCITING SCIENCE
Saturday 2nd April 7.30pm Tickets £20 (Box Office bookings incur £1 booking fee per transaction)
JOHN VERITY BAND
7.30pm Matinee 6th April 2pm Tickets £8 Eve, Mat £7, U16s £6 (Box Office bookings over £20 incur £1 booking fee)
PHANTOM OF THE OPEN (12A)
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West Borough, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 1LT
7.30 pm evenings & 2.30 pm Saturday matinee
Box Office 01202 885566 Book online at www.tivoliwimborne.co.uk Outside Box Office hours please phone 01202 659425
RUSSELL KANE THE ESSEX VARIANT! LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Book and Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN. Music by ALAN MENKEN
Based on the film by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles Griffith. Originally produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, Producing Director). Originally produced at the Orpheum Theatre, New York City by the WPA. Theatre, David Geffen, Cameron Mackintosh and the Shubert Organization. This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe www.mtishows.co.uk.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS was originally directed by Howard Ashman with Musical Staging by Edie Cowan.
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Tuesday 12th April 1pm Tickets £12.50 / U16s £10 (Box Office bookings over £20 incur £1 booking fee)
Thursday 14th April 7.30pm. Tickets £18.50 (Box Office bookings over £20 incur £1 booking fee)
ALI & AVA (15)
Presents
16th 18th & 19th April 7.30pm Matinee 20th April 2.30pm Tickets £8 Eve, Mat £7, U16s £6 (Box Office bookings over £20 incur £1 booking fee)
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Wednesday 20th April 8pm Tickets £20 (Box Office bookings over £20 incur £1 booking fee)
AN EVENING WITH JOHN ILLSLEY “The Life and Times of Dire Straits – Music & Memories”. Thursday 21st April Tickets £30 (Box Office bookings incur £1 booking fee per transaction)
