DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS The million selling album – Direct from the West End
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DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS
The million selling album – Direct from the West End
Due to its phenomenal West End success, DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS, the smash hit musical inspired by the million+ selling albums, will continue its national tour throughout 2011 stopping off at The Lowry from Monday 31 October for one week only.
The dazzling success of the first four albums in the ‘Dreamboats and Petticoats’ series sent the message loud and clear. With over 2 million copies sold and several weeks at the Number One spot in the compilation charts, the Great British public were saying that they didn’t just want to listen to pure nostalgia: they’d love to see it as well. Thus ‘Dreamboats’ was born as a musical, and so was an evening of pure hedonistic affection for a more innocent era, when love was young and so was rock ‘n’ roll.
The original tour premiered in February 2009 at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley to rave critical reviews and widespread audience acclaim. Having sold out its return there in November 2009, the national tour has been extended throughout 2011.
Written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the team behind Goodnight Sweetheart, Birds of a Feather, The New Statesmen and Shine On Harvey Moon, this spectacular feel-good production will give you ‘the greatest time of your life’ – taking you back to a time when each passing week brought another classic track.
Featuring songs from Roy Orbison, The Shadows, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury, Chuck Berry and many more, including Let’s Dance, To Know Him Is To Love Him, Shaking All Over, Bobby’s Girl, Little Town Flirt, Only Sixteen, Sleepwalk, Runaround Sue, Happy Birthday Sweet 16, What A Wonderful World, Let’s Twist Again, Let It Be Me and many more hits from music’s golden era!
More information on Dreamboats and Petticoats can be found on www.thelowry.com
LISTING INFORMATION
DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS
The Lowry
Mon 31 October – Sat 5 November 2011
Times: Mon – Sat 7.30pm, Wed & Sat 2pm
Tickets: £22 - £35 (Concessions available)
How to Book: In person from The Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ, call 0843 2086005 or go online www.thelowry.com
Running time: 2hrs and 5 mins (Approx including interval)
Recommended for everyone aged 8 and over.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
For more information, interview and competition requests or review tickets, please contact Bill Elms at Bill Elms Associates on 0151 245 0135 | 07930 454376 | bill@billelms.com
Press Performance: Mon 31 October - 7.30pm
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THE CREATIVE TEAM
Bill Kenwright
Recent West End productions include: The Country Girl (Apollo); Bedroom Farce (Duke of York’s); Ghosts (Duchess); A Daughter’s a Daughter (Trafalgar Studios); Dreamboats and Petticoats (Savoy); On the Waterfront (Haymarket); Woman In Mind (Haymarket); Plague Over England (Duchess); Sunset Boulevard (Comedy); The Vortex (Apollo); Absurd Person Singular (Garrick); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi); The Letter (Wyndham’s); Treats (Garrick); The Glass Menagerie (Apollo); Cabaret (Lyric), The Canterbury Tales (RSC – Gielgud); Hay Fever (Haymarket); The Crucible (RSC – Gielgud); Whistle Down the Wind (Palace); A Man for All Seasons (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); The Night of the Iguana (Lyric); Scrooge (London Palladium); A Few Good Men (Haymarket); The Big Life (Apollo); Elmina’s Kitchen (Garrick); Festen (Lyric); Judi Dench in All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC – Gielgud); The Taming of the Shrew and The Tamer Tamed (RSC – Queen’s); The Secret Rapture (Lyric); Tell Me on a Sunday (Gielgud); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New London); the RSC Jacobean season (Gielgud); Home and Beauty (Lyric); Via Dolorosa (Duchess); Sleuth (Apollo); The Constant Wife (Lyric); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric); Ghosts (Comedy); Fallen Angels (Apollo); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Lyric); Brief Encounter (Lyric); Miss Julie (Haymarket); Stepping Out (Albery); Hurlyburly (Queen’s); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Haymarket); Passion (Queen’s); Company (Albery); The Miracle Worker (Wyndham’s); Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Moonlight (Comedy). Directed by Peter Hall: Mind Millie for Me, The Master Builder and Jessica Lange in A Streetcar Named Desire (Haymarket); The School for Wives (Piccadilly); Hamlet and An Absolute Turkey (Gielgud); The Gift of the Gorgon (Wyndham’s); Lysistrata (Old Vic, Athens); Separate Tables (Albery); She Stoops to Conquer (Queen’s); Waiting for Godot, The Misanthrope, Major Barbara, Filumena and Kafka’s Dick (Piccadilly). On Broadway: Travels With My Aunt (Minetta Lane – Drama Desk Award); Dancing at Lughnasa (Plymouth Theatre – Tony Award); Medea with Diana Rigg (Longacre Theatre – Tony Award); Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (Belasco Theatre – four Tony Awards); Theatre de Complicite’s production of Ionesco’s The Chairs (Golden Theatre – six Tony nominations); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Music Box Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Barrymore); Primo (Music Box Theatre); Festen (Music Box Theatre); Passing Strange (Belasco Theatre) and Guys and Dolls (Nederlander Theatre). Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers is in its 23rd year in the West End at the Phoenix Theatre. It ran for three years at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, receiving seven Tony nominations. As a Director he is responsible for Whistle Down the Wind (Palace, UK and USA tours); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New London and UK tour); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK tour); Evita (UK tour) and Blood Brothers (Phoenix, UK tour and Broadway). He was nominated for a London Theatre Critics’ Award for West Side Story at the Shaftesbury and a Tony Award for Blood Brothers in New York. His films include: The Day After the Fair, Stepping Out and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart; and most recently Cheri, written by Christopher Hampton, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and directed by Stephen Frears. He co-produced the phenomenally successful national arena tour of Elvis – The Concert with Elvis Presley Enterprises. He has received an Honorary Doctorate from Nottingham Trent University, an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool’s John Moores University and an Honorary Professorship from Thames Valley University in London. In 2002 he received the Variety Club Bernard Delfont Award for his contribution to the entertainment industry, and a CBE in the same year. In 2008 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Theatrical Management Association. He is Chairman and major shareholder of Everton Football Club (and an even bigger fan).
Laurie Mansfield
Laurie Mansfield entered show business first as a salesman for CBS Records, and then as a record producer. In 1969 this led him in to the agency business and since then he has been responsible for building International Artistes Ltd into one of the most successful all purpose management and agency companies in the UK, where he is now Chairman. In September 2003 a deal was struck with Qdos Entertainment whereby the two companies joined forces presenting a very powerful combination of both theatrical production and talent representation. In recent years, Laurie has become more involved in the production of West End shows, including conceiving and co-producing the musical Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story, which completed 13 years in London, in addition to various productions world-wide. Laurie co-produced the Olivier Award winning musical Jolson in London’s West End, before transferring to Toronto. Jolson has also toured in the United States and Australia. In 1999 Laurie co-produced the Olivier Award winning Defending the Caveman as well as Animal Crackers and Dreaming, all playing on Shaftesbury Avenue, London. In October 1999 Laurie was the lead producer on Great Balls of Fire, the Jerry Lee Lewis story, at the Cambridge Theatre. 2000 saw him involved in Ireland as Executive Producer of the film Agnes Browne (Universal), directed and starring Angelica Huston. 2002 saw the transfer to the West End of the Edinburgh Fringe Award Winning show ‘Zipp!’ co-produced by Laurie and starring Gyles Brandreth. Laurie is Vice President of the British Forces Foundation of which HRH The Prince of Wales is Patron and Baroness Lady Thatcher is President. The charity was formed to promote and support the Armed Forces for charitable means by entertaining servicemen and women around the world. Laurie is also currently Life President of the Entertainment Artistes Benevolent Fund, which maintains the retirement home Brinsworth House in Twickenham. Through the EABF Laurie is closely involved with the Royal Variety Show, the proceeds of which go directly to the charity.
THE LOWRY
The Lowry celebrated its 10th anniversary on 28 April 2010 and has spent 11 years delighting, engaging and challenging both local and national audiences with the very best in visual art and performance. The Lowry Centre Trust is a not-for-profit charitable organisation and registered charity (no. 1053962). All income supports our world-class Theatres and Galleries programme, the care and display of the LS Lowry Collection and our life-changing Community and Education work. The Lowry’s Chief Executive, Julia Fawcett was awarded an OBE for services to the Arts in the Queen’s 2010 New Year Honours list.
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