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Wolves Grand Panto – Meet Richard Cadell And Sooty!
My next interview in a series working up to the opening of this years Wolverhampton Grand panto is with Richard Cadell and Sooty! Richard and Sooty are returning to The Grand 15 years after they were last there and are looking forward to being part of Sleeping Beauty. I caught up with Richard in the glorious surroundings of the Mount Hotel and found out all about life with TVs most famous bear. Fashion-Mommy: Tell me about your role in Sleeping Beauty. Richard Cadell: Muddles the jester is the comic, the stupid character who gets everything wrong. He;s a court jester, a sort of Buttons character. Of course I also have…
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The Lovely Bones Haunts At The Rep Birmingham
From its shocking opening scene, which brutally depicts the rape and murder of a 14 year old girl, you know that The Lovely Bones is going to be like no other piece of theatre you have ever seen. Based on the best selling novel by Alice Sebold, the central (dead) protagonist of The Lovely Bones, Susie Salmon (like the fish) is one of the most memorable, tragic and yet still spirited characters in modern literature, and, on stage at the Rep Birmingham, she is brought to life with verve and panache by Charlotte Beaumont. The Lovely Bones is set in 1973, a time before mobile phones and the internet, when…
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Some Mothers Do Ave Em – Hilarious Fun
Frank Spencer was one of the the most beloved characters from 1970s television, a time often called the golden age of British comedy. A hapless innocent, almost a man child, Frank seemed to be followed by mayhem, disaster and destruction, and this recipe for disaster made Some Mothers Do Ave Em a bonafide smash hit that had TV audiences laughing out loud. Now it has been transformed into a stage production with Joe Pasquale taking on the Frank role made famous by Michael Crawford. It opened at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre last night, and once again has the audience laughing out loud. Frank Spencer is a walking disaster area. Married…
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Dr Jeckyll And Mr Hyde – Phil Daniels Shines
The dark and chilling Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was brought to sinister life by the majestic Phil Daniels at the Wolverhampton Grand last night. Robert Louis Stephenson’s classic psychological drama of metamorphosis and evil madness is a brooding tale with moments of pure terror and kept audiences uneasily spellbound as it spun its web of murder and menace. Dr Jekyll is a highly respected doctor, living the life of a bachelor and scholar. A trip to see his widowed sister sees him taking the books belonging to his father which talk of metamorphosis and whether we will ever untangle the mysteries of the mind. Soon Dr Jekyll is conducting…
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Turn Of The Screw Raises The Chills At The Wolverhampton Grand
It is generally agreed the the 1961 film ‘The Innocents’ is one of the most frightening of all ghost stories, based on the classic Henry James novel ‘The Turn of the Screw’, the story of a governess who may, or may not be seeing malevolent ghosts is thought provoking, chilling, and ultimately unexplained. Now the story is chilling audiences at the Wolverhampton Grand with a satisfying new adaptation that has all the menace and lack of answers as the original. The Governess (a fabulous Carli Norris) is engaged to look after two orphans by their uncle, with the clear instructions that she is totally responsible for their care and is…
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