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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<br />
the latest reviews<br />
Cambridge Corn Exchange, 12th - 17th<br />
December, 19:30 plus matinees.<br />
Tickets: from £25.50. Tel: 01223 357851.<br />
www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/cornex<br />
sister act<br />
Mark Steel: Who do I think I am?<br />
In his newest stand-up show, inspired by his experience of becoming<br />
a father, Mark Steel tells the “amazing tale” of his search for his own<br />
identity (The Guardian), and finding out more about his natural mother,<br />
who gave him up for adoption. Mark has written and presented Mark<br />
Steel’s in Town (BBC Radio 4), The Mark Steel Lectures (BBC 2),<br />
regularly appears on Have I Got News For You (BBC 1) and The<br />
Newsquiz (BBC Radio 4), and has also appeared on QI and Room 101<br />
(BBC 2). He was also named as Columnist of the Year at the 2015<br />
Press Awards for his weekly column in The Independent.<br />
Cambridge Junction 2, 20th <strong>November</strong>, 20:00. Tickets: £17.<br />
Tel: 01223 511511. www.junction.co.uk<br />
This musical comedy, a smash hit on Broadway and<br />
in London’s West End, tells the story of disco diva<br />
Deloris van Cartier, who’s forced to go into hiding<br />
when she witnesses a murder. Concealed in a convent,<br />
she helps her fellow sisters find their voices, despite<br />
the watchfulness of the Mother Superior.<br />
Directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood<br />
(Strictly Come Dancing) this fabulous, family-friendly<br />
show features dazzling dance routines, music by Tony<br />
and eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken, and songs<br />
inspired by Motown, soul and disco, with musical<br />
arrangements by Sarah Travis.<br />
Music: Clive Gregson<br />
18th <strong>November</strong>, 20:00<br />
from £11, Cambridge<br />
Folk Club, The Golden<br />
Hind, Cambridge<br />
Comedy: Hal<br />
Cruttenden, 21st<br />
<strong>November</strong>, 20:00, £18<br />
The Apex, Bury St<br />
Edmunds<br />
Panto: Beauty and the<br />
Beast, 2nd December -<br />
15th January<br />
From £8.50, Theatre<br />
Royal, Bury St Edmunds<br />
Miles and Coltrane @ 90<br />
This special 90th birthday concert celebrates the work and<br />
partnership in the 1950s and ‘60s of jazz greats Miles Davis and<br />
John Coltrane, and will showcase such seminal recordings as Kind<br />
of Blue, A Love Supreme and Blue Train.<br />
Organised by multi-award winning Cambridge saxophonist Dan<br />
Forshaw, the concert will feature his quartet with special guests<br />
Martin Shaw, the trumpet legend who has performed with many<br />
leading jazz artists, and alto saxophonist Tony Kofi, co-founder of<br />
the Monk Liberation Band.<br />
Cambridge Arts Theatre, 13th <strong>November</strong>, 19:45. Tickets: from<br />
£18. Tel: 01223 503333. www.cambridgeartstheatre.com<br />
Music: The Best of<br />
Times, a Christmas<br />
story told by Michael<br />
Morpurgo<br />
11th December, 13:30<br />
& 16:30, from £18,<br />
Saffron Hall, Saffron<br />
Walden<br />
<strong>Velvet</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | <strong>November</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 45
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