CORONAVIRUS: All UK venues closed on 16th March 2020 and there is currently no planned re-opening time though it will not be before 1st June 2020 and is most likely to be September (according to some West End producers).
Some shows have been cancelled, or closed early, but many are being rescheduled and we are trying to keep up with the changes - assume that anything posted for April and May is actually postponed or cancelled. Pantomimes are possible but a few venues and shows may not return and larger venues and tours are unlikely to re-appear before 2021 though we have some hope for some panto ....
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Blonde Bombshells of 1943 looks back at the early years of the Blonde Bombshells, the most glamorous swing band in the land. Elizabeth, now a grandmother, but then a naïve schoolgirl in Leeds, remembers it as the most exciting and frightening time in her life. Never before had she met an upper-class deb, a nun and a man wearing a frock, all in the same room and all while the bombs were falling. Music may be the food of lots of things as well. Memories, regrets, catastrophes, laughter and narrow escapes. This especially so when it's the music of Fats Waller, the Andrew Sisters and Glenn Miller - not forgetting Flanagan and Allen and George Formby. What Elizabeth learns from her memories is simple; inside every respectable middle-aged woman, there's a Blonde Bombshell screaming to get out. Blonde Bombshells of 1943 website.Performers Katie Arnstein, Louisa Beadel, Josh Haberfield, Emma Jane Morton, Giovanna Ryan, Ashley Stirling, Eloise Kay, Lauren Storer.
Author Alan Plater. Company Ovation. Director John Plews. Design Phil Lindley. Lighting Aaron J Dootson. Costume Suzi Lombardelli. Sound Jon Raper. Musical Director Angharad Sanders.
Blonde Bombshells of 1943
Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (Play) production archive for QTIX code T780705853. Details of all Blonde Bombshells of 1943 archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S0953477015Archive Listings
| 14 May 14 to 29 Jun 14 | Upstairs at the Gatehouse Inner London Greater London |
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