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ENTERTAINMENT<br />
JANUARY 20<strong>17</strong> JANUARY | ISSUE 20<strong>17</strong> #51 | MUSIC ISSUE #51 & ENTERTAINMENT<br />
THEATRE<br />
ROYAL<br />
Early January sees the final 2<br />
weeks of our pantomime Beauty<br />
and the Beast, the show opened<br />
in early December and received<br />
some fantastic reviews and<br />
achieved 4 stars from The Stage.<br />
It was also well attended with over 1000<br />
audience members coming along during its<br />
opening weekend alone. To date 19,000 tickets<br />
have been sold during the run, if you haven’t<br />
been able to join in the fun and mayhem yet<br />
then never fear, Beauty and the Beast continues<br />
until Sunday 15 January.<br />
Once panto closes we have some wonderful<br />
winter warmers to keep you entertained<br />
during the cold month of January. On<br />
Saturday 21 January we welcome the hilarious<br />
Showstoppers. If you haven’t seen them<br />
before they are a touring troupe who create an<br />
improvised musical based on suggestions given<br />
to them from the audience on the evening. The<br />
company boast an array of awards and no two<br />
shows are ever the same. It could be Rocky<br />
Horror meets Miss Saigon or Cats crossed with<br />
Chicago, with the Showstoppers you never<br />
quite know what you are going to get, the only<br />
guarantee is plenty of laughs!<br />
Following on from that we host the latest in<br />
our Lunchtime Concert series on Monday 23<br />
January, we welcome Saxology. They are a<br />
Saxophone Quartet who perform a programme<br />
of Baroque and Classical arrangements, French<br />
Neo Romantic, English Pastoral, American<br />
Jazz and a premiere too, led by composer and<br />
arranger, Jeffery Wilson. Each concert is followed<br />
by complimentary cakes, coffee and tea in the<br />
Greene Room and is sponsored by Gross and Co<br />
Solicitors.<br />
January is completed by the visit of Bury<br />
Theatre Workshop with their stage adaptation of<br />
Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina. The local<br />
community group perform between Tuesday<br />
24 and Saturday 28 January. The show explores<br />
the themes of personal responsibly, fate and<br />
powerlessness.<br />
Looking into February Theatre Royal Bury<br />
St Edmunds presents Northanger Abbey,<br />
adapted by the acclaimed Austen specialist Tim<br />
Luscombe, this show opens in Bury St Edmunds<br />
and then embarks on National Tour. You can<br />
see the performance between Thursday 2 and<br />
Saturday 11 February.<br />
2016 is now behind us and it was a fantastic year<br />
at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds with many<br />
brilliant shows. Our line-up for January and early<br />
February sets the bar pretty high for the rest<br />
of the year, I wonder what the rest of 20<strong>17</strong> may<br />
have in store for the theatre? I have no doubt that<br />
there will be plenty more fantastic shows and<br />
many enjoyable evenings. It would be lovely if<br />
you could join us.<br />
For details and tickets go to www.theatreroyal.org or call the box office on 01284 769505<br />
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