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Entertainment<br />
the stage<br />
Four Events<br />
Coming Up...<br />
Article by Marion Treby<br />
Plan your entertainment and read the<br />
latest reviews<br />
Jazz: Courtney Pine<br />
23 May, The Apex,<br />
Bury St Edmunds<br />
Cambridge Arts Theatre, 4th - 9th <strong>April</strong>, various<br />
times. Tickets from £18. Tel: 01223 503333<br />
www.cambridgeartstheatre.com<br />
With its dynamic cast, dazzling dance and<br />
energising music, Footloose tells the story of<br />
Ren McCormack, a city boy uprooted to a rural<br />
backwater where dancing has been banned after<br />
a fatal car crash. Ren does everything he can to<br />
convince the locals that they should break loose<br />
and dance once again, and soon, the whole town,<br />
including the reluctant Rev Moore and his wife,<br />
are on their feet. Heading up the star-studded<br />
cast are Gareth Gates (Ren’s friend Willard)<br />
and Maureen Nolan (Vi Moore). The show’s<br />
classic ‘80s hits include Holding Out for a Hero,<br />
Almost Paradise and Let’s Hear it for the Boy as<br />
well as the title track Footloose.<br />
Comedy:<br />
The All-Star Stand-up<br />
Tour <strong>2016</strong><br />
15th May<br />
Theatre Royal,<br />
Bury St Edmunds<br />
The Philharmonia Orchestra, soloist<br />
Esther Yoo, Cambridge Corn Exchange<br />
Last month, we experienced a musical treat of the highest order in an evening of works<br />
by Rachmaninov and Sibelius, plus a new, contemporary commission for strings, ‘Laulan’,<br />
by young Cambridge-based composer Jay Richardson. Under Ashkenazy’s enthusiastic<br />
direction, The Philharmonia gave breathtaking performances. There was a noticeable<br />
outpouring of Russian sadness in their interpretation of Rachmaninov’s rarely<br />
performed symphonic fantasy of 1893, ‘The Rock’, whilst young soloist Esther Yoo<br />
gave a stunning performance of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D minor, her consummate<br />
technical virtuosity matched by a deep emotional empathy with the composer’s<br />
material. The Philharmonia’s rendering of the many moments of contrast and unusual<br />
orchestral colour in Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony (1935-6), the closing work in the<br />
programme, intensified the work’s inherently dramatic nature. Read the full review<br />
at www.velvetmag.co.uk<br />
Music:<br />
Dame Evelyn Glennie<br />
26th <strong>April</strong><br />
Cambridge Corn<br />
Exchange<br />
Drama: Shadowlands<br />
23rd - 28th May<br />
Cambridge Arts Theatre<br />
Mark Steel<br />
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, 12th May, 20:00<br />
Tickets: £15<br />
Tel: 01284 758000 www.theapex.co.uk<br />
His newest stand up show, Who Do I Think I Am, is a surprising and enthralling story about his own<br />
parentage. The fact that he’d never met his mother had never really bothered him. But once he<br />
had a son of his own, he realised his mother might remember his birth, or even his adoption…<br />
<strong>Velvet</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr <strong>2016</strong> 37
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