Velvet Magazine December 2016
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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 Arts Theatre,<br />
23rd - 28th January 2017,<br />
19:45 plus matinees. Tickets<br />
from £18. Tel: 01223 503333.<br />
www.cambridgeartstheatre.com<br />
The Full Monty<br />
Rory Bremner: Partly Political<br />
With Trump, Boris and Brexit dominating the media, Britain’s best-known<br />
satirical impressionist is on a mission to make sense (and nonsense) of it all.<br />
Best known for the political satire show Bremner, Bird and Fortune which<br />
was broadcast on Channel 4 for nearly 20 years, Rory’s also won backto-back<br />
BAFTAs for Britain’s Top Comedy Performances, three Royal<br />
Television Society and two British Comedy Awards. Rory has appeared on<br />
Spitting Image (ITV), Whose Line is it Anyway (Channel 4), Have I Got<br />
News for You and QI (BBC1), Mock the Week (BBC2), The News Quiz<br />
and The Now Show (BBC R4). This is his only date in East Anglia -<br />
don’t miss it!<br />
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, 8th February, 20:00. Tickets £18.50.<br />
Tel: 01284 758000. www.theapex.co.uk<br />
Based on the 1997 smash hit film, described by The<br />
Guardian as ‘The best British sit-com for years’, The Full<br />
Monty tells the hilarious, yet heartfelt story of six out<br />
of work Sheffield steel workers attempting to launch<br />
a striptease act to earn some much-needed cash.<br />
However, these friends, played by Gary Lucy, Anthony<br />
Lewis, Andrew Dunn, Louis Emerick, Chris Fountain and<br />
Kai Owen, are a far cry from the exotic dancers they try<br />
to copy. Adapted for the stage by Oscar-winning writer<br />
Simon Beaufoy, with songs by Donna Summer, Hot<br />
Chocolate and Tom Jones, this production’s fairytale<br />
ending will not disappoint…<br />
The Chicago Blues Brothers<br />
Travel back to 1980 with The Chicago Blues Brothers to finish the concert<br />
at the Palace Ballroom Hotel. With over 40 hits performed live on stage,<br />
this high-octane, adrenaline-pumping musical mash-up continues the<br />
legacy of Jake and Elwood, presenting the best material from the original<br />
Blues Brothers movies. Enjoy numbers by Aretha Franklin, James Brown,<br />
Otis Redding, Ray Charles and Tina Turner plus other blues, soul, Motown<br />
and funk classics. Infectious, dazzling, riotous, exuberant and spirited, this<br />
spectacular show captures the sound, energy and persona that gave the<br />
original film its cult status.<br />
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, 22nd Jan, 19:30. Tickets: £24.50.<br />
Tel: 01284 758000. www.theapex.co.uk<br />
Music: Showstopper,<br />
The Improvised Musical<br />
21st January, 19:30,<br />
from £8.50, Theatre<br />
Royal, Bury St Edmunds<br />
Music: The Classic Rock<br />
Show, 31st January,<br />
19:30, from £26.25,<br />
Cambridge Corn<br />
Exchange<br />
Theatre: Shakespeare’s<br />
The Winter’s Tale,<br />
31st Jan - 4th Feb,<br />
various times, from £18,<br />
Cambridge Arts Theatre<br />
Comedy: Sue Perkins<br />
Live! in Spectacles<br />
16th February 19:30,<br />
£26.25, Cambridge<br />
Corn Exchange<br />
<strong>Velvet</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | <strong>December</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 43
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