TIL New Year 2018

62 Years Informing International & UK Visitors
Est. 1956 Issue 3080
NEW YEAR ISSUE, 2018
CARLY PAOLI VALENTINE’S CONCERT
Thursday 15th February
Box Office 020 7730 4500
www.cadoganhall.com www.carlypaoli.com

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CONTENTS
Events 4
Year in Focus 2017 at Getty Images
London Model Engineering Exhibition
Kew Orchids Festival 2018
Music 8
Carly Paoli Valentine’s Concert
Royal Holloway in Concert
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
Exhibitions 12
Churchill Season Comes to Parliament
Hayward Gallery Re-Opening
ABBA: Super Troupers The Exhibition
Theatre 16
Pinocchio
The Grinning Man Extends
Small Faces’ All or Nothing Transfers
Welcome to London
Bigger, brighter and bolder, the Lumiere London light festival returns for
a spectacular second year from 18-21 January. More than 50 artworks will
transfom the city into a dazzling nocturnal art exhibition. This world-class
light festival that takes place over four evenings showcases the capital’s
spectacular and iconic architecture and streets through the vision of
leading UK and international artists.
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The biggest festival of light in London to date returns following the success
of the first edition in January 2016, when it attracted an estimated 1.3 million
visits over four nights in London's West End, Mayfair and King’s Cross.
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from King’s Cross, through Fitzrovia, Mayfair, and the West End to
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YEAR IN FOCUS 2017 AT GETTY
IMAGES GALLERY
Getty Images Gallery is showing Year
in Focus 2017, a retrospective exhibition
featuring a stunning curation of images
that captured and defined the global
news agenda and events of the past year.
In 2017, Getty Images’ editorial team
of award-winning photographers
provided coverage 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, from all corners of the
world. They were at the centre of the key
news stories and major events, covering
more than 160,000 news, sport and
entertainment events at home and
abroad. Year in Focus 2017 will
showcase the most significant moments
from the past year, as well as archival
anniversaries, portraits and obituaries.
Featured are powerful images that
document some of 2017’s most
important news events, including the
genocide of the Rohingya, Hurricane
Harvey and the devastation of Grenfell
Tower. The exhibition showcases some
of the year’s highest profile
entertainment and sporting events, from
Cannes Film Festival to Wimbledon and
the World Athletics Championships.
As well as images from the past year,
the curation includes archival images of
Princess Diana to mark 20 years since
her death, alongside other anniversaries
such as the Russian Revolution and the
Hindenburg disaster.
Ken Mainardis, Senior Vice President,
Editorial, Getty Images said: ‘2017 gave
us some iconic images – many of them
on display in this exhibition – and I feel,
a tremendous sense of hope for photojournalism
as a key tool of democracy.
Storytelling through photojournalism
continues to be perhaps the one thing
that connects us all globally – that helps
us all to be engaged global citizens.
Capturing moments of tragedy or triumph,
in faraway places or on our doorstep,
photography tells us about our past and
informs our future.’
Year in Focus runs until 3 February
and admission is free. A selection of
images will be available for purchase as
fine art prints. Getty Images Gallery is
situated at 46 Eastcastle Street, W1.
ENDANGERED OKAPI BORN AT
ZSL LONDON ZOO
Zookeepers have named the newest
arrival at ZSL London Zoo Meghan, after
Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s fiancée,
in celebration of this year’s forthcoming
Royal Wedding. The name is particularly
fitting because okapis were
coincidentally first brought to the world’s
attention in 1901 by another Harry, ZSL
fellow Sir Harry Johnstone.
After a 14-month gestation, it was a
relatively speedy birth for first-time mum
Oni, with the youngster emerging in just
over half an hour on 9 December. It
wasn’t long before keepers, watching on
camera from the next room, saw the
newborn rise up to take her first tentative
steps towards mum for a feed. An
important addition to the Zoo family,
Meghan, is already a firm favourite
among visitors.
Founded in 1826, ZSL (Zoological
Society of London) is an international
scientific, conservation and educational
charity whose mission is to promote and
achieve the worldwide conservation of
animals and their habitats.
Further information at www.zsl.org
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LONDON MODEL ENGINEERING
EXHIBITION
The London Model Engineering
Exhibition returns to Alexandra Palace
from 19-21 January and is regarded as
one of the leading model shows in the UK
attracting over 14,000 visitors annually.
See the full spectrum of model
engineering at the show from traditional
model engineering, collections of scale
model ships, through to the more
modern gadgets and boys toys including
remote control trucks, boats, aeroplanes
and helicopters. Visitors can travel
between the show’s different zones and
take part in hands-on model building
activities, see fascinating technical
demonstrations, marvel at the working
Meccano displays, watch Tamiya radiocontrolled
trucks tackle a fabulously
detailed obstacle course to flying model
aeroplanes with the BMFA – the familyfriendly
event offers a wide range of
entertaining activities. Over fifty national
and regional modelling clubs and
societies and associations will be
displaying their members’ work each of
which competing to win the prestigious
Society Shield.
Making its show debut is Royal Navy
veteran David Fortey who will officially
unveil his incredible scale model of the
former flagship aircraft carrier HMS Ark
Royal (R09) which has taken him 25
years to build. Working from original
builders plans direct from the MOD,
Legends of Railway – 2018
commemorates 80 years (1938) since
Mallard set a new world speed record for
steam locomotives at 126mph. To
honour the achievement, Gauge One, the
OO Live Steam Club will display an
OO-gauge loco finished in the LNER
Garter Blue livery with valances which
runs on a track.
2018 also commemorates the 175th
anniversary of the SS Great Britain.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS was
considered one of the most ingenious and
prolific figures in engineering history. His
designs revolutionised public transport
and modern engineering.
The London Model Engineering
Exhibition is a great day out for all the
family whatever the weather. Nearest
underground is Wood Green.
DANIEL WANJIRU TO RACE
THE BIG HALF
The 2017 Virgin Money London
Marathon champion Daniel Wanjiru will
take on British favourites Sir Mo Farah
and Callum Hawkins in a mouthwatering
elite men’s race at The Big Half.
The 25-year-old Kenyan, who claimed
the biggest win of his career at the
London Marathon last April, will return
to the streets of the capital on Sunday
4 March over the half marathon
distance. Wanjiru’s participation adds a
third leading contender to an exciting
Big Clash against Farah, the four-time
Olympic and World Championship
champion on the track and Hawkins,
who was fourth in last summer’s World
Championship marathon in London.
With a half-marathon personal best
(PB) of 59 minutes and 20 seconds set
last year, Wanjiru is the fastest on paper
of the three men. Farah has a PB of
59:32, which is also the British record,
which he set in Lisbon in 2015 while
Hawkins ran a Scottish record of 60:00
in Japan last February.
The Big Half starts by Tower Bridge
and finishes in front of the Cutty Sark in
Greenwich, using many of the same
roads as the first half of the Virgin
Money London Marathon.
The race is part of a one-day festival
centred around the half-marathon
distance which aims to be ‘truly global
and uniquely local’.
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I Musicanti.
ALEXANDRA AND THE RUSSIANS
AT ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE
Chamber ensemble I Musicanti
returns to St John’s Smith Square’s
‘Sundays at St John’s’ series on
21 January for the third concert in their
series: Alexandra and the Russians.
I Musicanti is a mixed-instrument
ensemble comprising some of Britain's
most experienced and respected
musicians, chosen by artistic director
Leon Bosch. It is Bosch who is also
responsible for putting together the
programmes for Alexandra and the
Russians, a four-concert series which
features world premieres by Alexandra
Harwood alongside classics of the
Russian chamber music repertoire as
well as less familiar pieces.
Harwood, a descendant of Catherine
the Great, bases each of her new works
in the series on episodes from Russian
folk tales. To Sleep, the work to be
premiered on 21 January, takes the
original Russian version of Snow White
as its source, and focuses on her deep
sleep. It is scored for pairs of violins,
violas and cellos, thereby using the
same line-up as Tchaikovsky’s ‘Souvenir
de Florence’, one of the most celebrated
(and celebratory) string sextets.
A memento of a trip the composer made
to Tuscany, it ends the concert which
begins with Anton Arensky’s second
quartet. Arensky’s tribute to Tchaikovsky
has the unusual instrumentation of
single violin and viola with two cellos.
The series Alexandra and the
Russians concludes on Sunday 3 June.
KEW’S FIRST THAI-INSPIRED
ORCHIDS FESTIVAL
Thailand’s vibrant colours, culture,
and magnificent plant life will be the
centrepiece of Kew Gardens 2018
Orchids Festival in February. Inside the
tropical paradise of the Princess of
Wales Conservatory, visitors to Kew’s
23rd annual Orchids Festival will get a
chance to shake off the winter blues and
get creative through a host of exciting
new events and activities designed to
appeal to all ages.
Colourful floral displays will welcome
visitors as they enter the tropical
glasshouse and wander through a
magnificently colourful Vanda tunnel,
with three arches delicately covered with
hanging orchids. Beautifully handcrafted
floating Thai umbrellas will lead to an
exquisite Bang Pa-In-inspired orchid
palace. A traditional Thai market boat
and rice paddy form an exquisite water
display, representing a typical bucolic
scene, complete with a special Thai cart
on loan from the Royal Thai Embassy in
London.
As well as the stunning visual
displays, visitors will be immersed in
the sounds of Thailand’s everyday hustle
and bustle via four different specially
commissioned soundscapes playing
inside the glasshouse. From the
grinding of ingredients and the sizzling
of spices in a pan, to the tranquil sounds
of an exotic spa and the regal stirrings of
a palace, all aspects of Thailand’s culture
are captured throughout the diverse
soundtracks.
Thailand is home to 1,100 species of
orchid. Botanists have been naming and
describing orchids for more than 250
years and Kew is a world leader in this
field. Last year alone, 600 new species
were discovered worldwide, including
three from Thailand. Many orchids have
important medicinal properties as well
as being revered globally for their
delicate beauty.
The Princess of Wales Conservatory
film room will be transformed into a
versatile Thai themed activity area,
where visitors can take a seat, put their
feet up and learn about the beauty of
orchids, and the important science work
Kew is doing through a specially
commissioned film.
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CARLY PAOLI TO PERFORM VALENTINE’S CONCERT
The last couple of years have been very exciting for Carly
Paoli. The critically acclaimed, classically trained singer has
been making musical waves, highlighted by the release of her
first album Singing My Dreams on the Abiah Music label.
Next month, on 15 February, she will headline her own
concert with a Valentine’s theme at Cadogan Hall.
Her career could be said to be just
starting but in fact she already has an
impressive list of credits to her name.
Having won scholarships to study at
Tring Park and the Royal Northern
College of Music, she was appointed as
a brand ambassador by Bedat & Co
Geneve, the luxury watch manufacturer,
who were impressed by her style and
poise. This is turn led to an invitation by
renowned producer, composer and
arranger David Foster for her to appear
in a star-studded concert in Calgary for
his charitable Foundation. The link with
Foster has endured as she has also sung
for him in Phoenix Arizona and he in
turn was a special guest in her concert
Music for Mercy in Rome 2016.
However, Foster is not the only
celebrity that she has shared a
performing space with. As mentioned,
her album boasts a duet with the
celebrated tenor, José Carreras.
‘I first met José when he and I sang
at Windsor Castle for HRH Prince
Released in June 2017 her album shot
straight to No 2 in the official Classical
Music charts garnering 5* reviews. It is a
mixture of original and familiar music, all
underpinned by lush, romantic,
Hollywood-inspired scoring. There are
songs by Josh Groban and Brian Byrne,
Jason Robert Brown, a duet with José
Carreras, arrangements by prolific awardwinner
William Ross, a new song with
lyrics by the legendary Don Black and an
amazing adaptation of James Horner’s
theme from Legends of the Fall with lyrics
by Carly herself, who has also written
lyrics for other songs on the album.
David Mellor said of Carly that ‘she
‘effortlessly straddles two countries,
Britain and Italy.’ The Italian connection
is important in the background to this
charming, quietly spoken but assured
young artist. She was born and brought
up in Nottinghamshire but her mother is
Italian and she has a large family living
in Puglia. She spent all her summers
there and as a result is bilingual.
‘I did a lot of singing in Italy; in fact
most of my early experience in
performing came from there as I would
sing in all the local piazzas. Italy, with its
huge love for music is a place where
every town has a open air space where
they hold concerts and in my home
region in the South of Italy I sang in
most of them. However, my desire to
sing came from my love of the MGM
Musicals and Disney films. My mum
bought them all for me and I knew every
word and sang every song and my
fabulous family got used to hearing me
constantly singing.’
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Charles. It was a dream to be on stage
with him as not only did I personally
admire him, but he was also a firm
favourite of my late grandmother. When
we recorded the duet in Barcelona, I had
to pinch myself to think that I was
standing there singing with this amazing
man who, by the way, was an absolute
gentleman and endlessly encouraging.’
Then, there is her connection with
Andrea Bocelli with whom she has
appeared on several occasions. She was
his special guest at the O2 and a concert
of theirs in Florence went out on PBS
television. In 2015, she headlined an
amazing concert at Caracalla in Rome
with guests Carreras and Bocelli. Soon
after that her version of Ave Maria, a
completely new version of the prayer
written by her album producer Romano
Musumarra with lyrics by Grant Black,
was chosen by the Vatican to be the
official song for Pope Francis’ Jubilee
2016. In the same year, a unique event
was staged in the historical Roman
Forum. Entitled ‘Music for Mercy,’ the
concert starred Carly, Bocelli, Elaine
Paige, David Foster and The Tenors and
was broadcast live on RAI Uno and later
by SKY Arts.
Her link with Italy is as strong as ever,
although now the open-air events are on
a much grander scale. On RAI television
she appeared in Assisi for a live charity
telethon and then in Sorrento. She was
recently presented with a Premio
Barocco award in recognition of her
contribution to Italian music and culture
and a Glamour magazine award for her
commitment to children’s charities.
‘From very young, I had dreams of
performing onstage for an audience.
Part of the reason for the choice of title
for my album reflected those childhood
fantasies. The last couple of years have
been so exciting and filled with such
fabulous experiences, incredible
musical colleagues and wonderful
audiences.’
The young singer is an accomplished
artist. In her recent UK tour, she
captivated her audiences with her clear
diction, soaring soprano and emotional
connection to the lyrics. Her album is a
testament to Abiah Music’s commitment
to their artist as she is accompanied by
the London Symphony Orchestra, Arts
Symphonic and Orchestra di Roma and
recorded at Abbey Road Studios and the
Forum Studios in Rome.
Carly will headline The Valentine’s
Special Concert at Cadogan Hall on
15 February, with the Abiah Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Grammy-award
winning composer Steven Mercurio. Her
special guests are Grammy award
winning flautist, Andrea Griminelli who
has won praise for his sensitive playing
and technical prowess, and Italian tenor
Federico Paciotti who mixes rock guitar
with powerful operatic singing. She is
especially thrilled that Tring Park 16 will
join her on stage. The choir was
BBC Songs of Praise Choir of the Year
in 2016 and finalists in 2017 for Pitch
Battle. Carly Paoli has travelled a long
way throughout her career, but now she
is coming home to London and the
concert will be a night to remember.
For tickets, telephone the box office
on 020 7730 4500 or visit the website at
www.cadoganhall.com
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MEYER ORIGINALS
TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL
PINA BAUSCH IN VIKTOR
Viktor, created by the endlessly
inventive Pina Bausch, returns to
Sadler’s Wells from 8-11 February. The
piece, an international co-production
with Teatro Argentino and the City of
Rome, is performed by the legendary
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch,.
In 1986, the city of Rome invited Pina
Bausch and her company to make a
piece inspired by the Eternal City. Viktor
turned out to be the first of Pina
Bausch’s epic travelogues, a series
which took her company around the
world for inspiration-gathering
residencies. Living in each city for a
period of time, her renowned company
would then return to Wuppertal to create
a new work inspired by their visit.
Viktor is set to music which spans
centuries and continents: folk music from
Italy, waltzes from Russia and dance
music from the Middle Ages to the 1930s.
Renowned as the inventor of
tanztheater, and widely regarded as one
of the most significant influences in
contemporary dance, Pina Bausch has
inspired generations of audiences and
artists all over the world, nurturing an
ensemble of vivid imagination and grand
scale. Since her death in 2009, the
company has continued present her
choreographic works around the world.
SADLER'S WELLS SAMPLED
Sadler’s Wells starts the new year with
the return of the dance taster festival
Sadler’s Wells Sampled, featuring worldclass
dance and a series of workshops
and foyer activities, on Friday 2 and
Saturday 3 February.
A regular fixture since 2007, Sampled
features a wide variety of dance, from
classical ballet to hip hop, contemporary
and flamenco.
The 2018 festival includes performances
from the finalists of BBC Younger
Dancer 2017, showcasing the best of
young British dance talent.
Former dancer with Ballet Nacional
de España, Jesús Carmona is a pioneer
in flamenco’s evolution and is one of
three international acts in this year’s
festival. His footwork and ballet-infused
moves translate masterfully to the work
he creates for his own company.
Ballet is represented in this year’s
festival by some of the UK’s leading
artists. Firstly, former Principal of The
Royal Ballet, Zenaida Yanowsky who
performs Dying Swan. A solo created
specifically for the great dancer Anna
Pavlova by Mikhail Fokine in 1905, set
to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo
Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux
(The Carnival of the Animals).
Birmingham Royal Ballet, completes
the ballet line-up with a duet from the
company’s work, Kin, created for the
company by former Birmingham Royal
Ballet dancer Alexander Whitley. Kin.
celebrates the raw kinetics of dance, the
virtuosity of ballet technique and the
potential for movement to bring us
together in different ways.
Contemporary dance is showcased in
Sampled by both new and established
companies. Candoco Dance Company,
the renowned contemporary dance
company of disabled and non-disabled
performers present Dedicated to... a new
work for the company by Caroline
Bowditch. The piece reveals the
extraordinary bonds we make throughout
our lives in a touching portrayal of
female strength, support and friendship.
Fascinated with the complexities of
Western physics, astrophysics and
Eastern mysticism, Birmingham and
Barcelona based contemporary dance
company, Humanhood, explore the deep
connections which lie between these
seemingly abstract fields. Commissioned
by The Movement for Sampled, company
founders Rudi Cole and Júlia Robert
Parés present a re-worked extract from
their first full length duet ZERO, which
explores the interconnections and
synchronicity in the universe.
Completing the contemporary dance
line up is NDT2. Founded in 1978,
NDT2 is the second, younger company
of Nederlands Dans Theater, widely
considered to be one of the most
inventive and original dance companies
in Europe. The company has established
a reputation for the astounding
technique and boundless energy.
Award-winning hip hop dance crew
Yeah Yellow are a multidisciplinary dance
group from France and complete this
year’s London line-up. The company
consider themselves a collective of
dancing Jedi Knights showcasing their
creativity, originality and ‘joie de vivre’,
whether hip hop or breaking. Since their
inception they have performed and battled
internationally, representing France with
numerous titles under their belt.
Tickets from the box office telephone
020 7863 8000 or visit the website at
www.sadlerswells.com
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ROYAL HOLLOWAY IN CONCERT
WITH LONDON MOZART PLAYERS
The world-famous Choir of Royal
Holloway, University of London,
in partnership with the London Mozart
Players and the Royal Holloway
Chamber Orchestra, will be performing a
new year spectacular at St John's Smith
Square on 31 January. Royal Holloway
in Concert with the London Mozart
Players will see the ensembles uniting
for a showcase including Beethoven’s
masterpiece 5th Symphony and Vaughan
Williams’ Serenade to Music.
The Choir of Royal Holloway is
considered one of the finest mixed-voice
collegiate choirs in the UK. This rare
opportunity to see them perform
accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra,
which features some of the most
distinguished student musicians in the UK
and the UK’s oldest chamber orchestra,
London Mozart Players, is the perfect night
out for music lovers. The concert will be a
masterclass in choral and orchestral music.
In 1918, the Representation of the
People Act was enacted, reforming the
country’s election system and securing
the vote for some women for the first
time, and most men. Celebrating the
centenary of this landmark law, the
concert programme includes the world
premiere of a new commission from
composer Joanna Marsh, reflecting on
the 1913 Derby, where suffragette and
Royal Holloway alumna Emily Wilding
Davison famously stepped in front of
the king’s horse.
For tickets, telephone 020 7222 1061
or visit www.sjss.org.uk
THE COMPLETE BEETHOVEN PIANO
TRIOS AT ST JAMES’S PICCADILLY
The West End’s newest chamber
music series, based in one of London’s
most beautiful venues, St James’s
Piccadilly, launches next week with a
season of five concerts that present
Beethoven’s complete Piano Trios. These
works represent the pinnacle of chamber
music writing up to that point and the
programmes will highlight the farreaching
influence of these masterpieces
on subsequent composers right up to
the present day.
The launch concert appropriately
showcases Beethoven’s piano trio No.1
and the virtuosic ‘Gassenhauer’ trio.
These are set alongside one of Haydn’s
most influential chamber works, the
popular ‘Gypsy’ trio and the lyrical
Notturno by Schubert, who was so
greatly influenced by the chamber music
of Beethoven. The programme is
completed by the highly evocative
‘The Colour of Blossoms’ by British
composer Cecilia Mcdowall.
Outstanding violinist Rhys Watkins is a
member of the London Symphony
Orchestra and is joined by the prizewinning
international cellist Rowena
Calvert and concert pianist Warren
Mailley-Smith, who became the first
British pianist to perform Chopin’s
complete works from memory in 2016.
The concert will take place on Friday
26 January at 19.30. For tickets,
telephone 0333 666 3366 or visit
www.piccadillychamberconcerts.com
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CHURCHILL SEASON COMES TO
PARLIAMENT IN EARLY 2018
To coincide with the UK release of the
feature film ‘Darkest Hour’, the Houses of
Parliament is running ‘A Churchill
Season’ of special events which includes
a ‘Churchill Tour Experience’ on Friday
26 January with the chance to meet
Parliamentary Archivists. ‘Churchill’
Guided Tours will run on all Saturdays
between 13 January and 17 February.
'Darkest Hour’ is a British biographical
war drama film directed by Joe Wright.
Starring Gary Oldman as Sir Winston
Churchill the film follows his early days
as Prime Minister and includes shots
from inside the Palace of Westminster.
The ‘Churchill Season’ events will
highlight Churchill’s life and career in the
House of Commons, and give visitors a
unique and fascinating insight into this
key period in our nation’s history.
Welcoming the new events, grandson
of Sir Winston Churchill, Rt Hon
Sir Nicholas Soames MP commented:
‘I’m delighted that Parliament is to
celebrate the life of Sir Winston
Churchill and his 64 years as a
Parliamentary Archives, VGO/5/2
Member of Parliament. These events
coincide with the release of the
remarkable new film on Sir Winston,
Darkest Hour. It is my hope that visitors
will enjoy the chance to learn more of
Sir Winston’s extraordinary
Parliamentary career and his legacy, and
further, will go away with a clearer
understanding of this truly momentous
period in the history of our country.’
The ‘Churchill Tour Experience’ reflect
a parliamentary career that spanned 64
years. In St Stephen’s Hall, you will have
the chance to view facsimiles of original
documents, correspondence and
photographs relating to Churchill’s life
in the House of Commons.
‘Churchill’ Guided Tours on Saturdays
between 13 January and 17 February
last for 90 minutes as a knowledgeable
Blue Badge guide will take you on a fun
and informative tour which has been
adapted to focus on Churchill’s long
career in Parliament. Highlights of the
tour include visits to both the Commons
Chamber and Lords Chamber where
Churchill debated many matters of
national and international interest.
More information on how to book, at
www.parliament.uk/churchill-season-2018
Samuel Waterhouse at work.
SAMUEL WATERHOUSE – JEWELLER
AND SILVERSMITH
Samuel Waterhouse is a self-taught
jeweller and silversmith who aims to
create contemporary jewellery and
silverware inspired by antiquity. He
began making after being shown a silver
spoon made by his father, who then
taught him the first basic techniques of
silversmithing. Samuel then continued
to teach himself through books, practice
and experimentation.
As he is predominantly self-taught,
Samuel sees his work as largely process
led. He usually begins his work by
creating his own alloy of metal
specifically for a piece that he has in
mind. He prefers working in this way as
he believes that by beginning to make
from this very base level (by alloying
metals and casting ingots, then
gradually becoming more refined in
terms of process, accuracy and skill), it
enables him to observe the
transformation of materials and gain an
insight into its physical character.
You can view and purchase from
Samuel at the next London Desire
Jewellery & Silversmithing Fair being
held from 2-4 March at Kensington
Town Hall.
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HAMLEYS: THE FINEST TOY SHOP
IN THE WORLD
As a boy, William Hamley dreamed of
opening the best toy shop in the world,
and in fact, he did. In 1760, he opened
‘Noah’s Ark’ and filled it with every type
of toy, from rag dolls to tin soldiers. By
the time Queen Victoria came to the
throne in 1837, Hamleys was already a
London landmark.
The shop was so successful that a
new branch was opened on Regent
Street in 1881 and added a further five
floors of toys. Hamleys, filled with
everything from toy theatres, puppets,
pedal cars and miniature railways trains,
had become the largest toy shop in the
world.
Just like everyone else, Hamleys
faced hard times in the 1920s, and was
forced to close in 1931. But the story
has a happy ending. Walter Lines bought
Hamleys and worked hard to bring
customers back. In 1938, his efforts
were rewarded when Queen Mary gave
Hamleys the Royal Warrant.
Even though it was bombed five times
during World War II, Hamleys did not
stop. Wearing tin hats, staff served at the
shop entrance, rushing in to collect the
toys then handing them over at the door.
When she came to the throne, Queen
Elizabeth II showed she still remembered
the toys her grandmother had given her,
and in turn gave Hamleys toys to her
own children. In 1955, she honored
Walter Lines with a second Royal
Warrant as a ‘Toys and Sports Merchant.’
The toys may have changed, but if he
were here today, William Hamley would
recognise the same delighted faces that
he dreamt of in his shop as a boy. Its
famous location at 188-196 Regent
Street has over seven floors of toys and
games that are sure to delight any child.
With over 255 years of experience in
bringing smiles and joy to children,
Hamleys is known and trusted by
families all over the world.
Hamleys Toy Shop is situated midway
along Regent Street. Tthe nearest
underground station is Oxford Circus.
HAYWARD GALLERY RE-OPENING:
ANDREAS GURSKY RETROSPECTIVE
London’s Hayward Gallery will stage
the first major retrospective in a UK
institution of the work of acclaimed
German photographer Andreas Gursky
(Germany, 1955) from 25 January.
Widely regarded as one of the most
significant photographers of our time,
Gursky is known for his large-scale,
often spectacular pictures that portray
emblematic sites and scenes of the
global economy and contemporary life.
The exhibition will feature approximately
60 of the artist’s ground-breaking
photographs, from the 1980s through to
six new works, which continues to push
the boundaries of the medium. Gursky’s
art is driven by an interest, and insight,
into forms of collective existence and
includes depictions of massive manmade
structures and huge gatherings of
people in nightclubs, factories, arenas,
and vast landscapes.
Andreas Gursky marks the beginning
of the Hayward Gallery’s 50th
anniversary year and is the first
exhibition to take place in the Gallery
following its two-year refurbishment,
along with two of Southbank Centre’s
Andreas Gursky: Rhine II, 1999/2015. Inkjet-Print 237.8 x 407.8 x 6.2 cm
© Andreas Gursky/DACS, 2017. Courtesy: Sprüth Magers.
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other venues, the Queen Elizabeth Hall
and Purcell Room. For the first time
since the gallery’s original opening, the
gallery’s pyramid roof lights will allow
natural light into the spaces below.
The exhibition includes some of the
artist’s most well known works including
Paris, Montparnasse (1993), an immense
and iconic photograph showing a
seemingly endless block of flats; and
Rhine II (1999/2015) – pictured – a sleek
digitally-tweaked vision of the river as a
contemporary minimalist symbol.
Kamiokande (2007) featuring the vast
underground water tank within the Kamioka
Nucleon Decay Experiment, Japan; and
May Day IV (2000/2014) depicting
hundreds of revellers at Germany’s longrunning
Mayday techno music festival.
Often employing a bird’s-eye perspective,
these large-format pictures boast an
abundance of precisely captured details,
all of which are uncannily in focus.
Since the late 1980s, Gursky has
depicted a broad spectrum of
contemporary life including sites of
commerce, industry and tourism across
the globe, making pictures that draw
attention to our changing relationship with
the natural world and chronicle the effects
of globalisation on day-to-day life.
From the frenzied stock exchange
seen in Chicago Board of Trade III
(2009) to the vast distribution centre
shown in Amazon (2016), and from the
sea of candy-coloured budget items
featured in of 99 Cent II, Diptych (2001)
to the eerily empty display shelves in
Prada II (1997), his images provide a
sweeping visual record of our age. Over
the past three decades, Gursky has
increasingly made use of computerenabled
post-production techniques to
make photographs whose scale,
precision, composition, and complexity
are unprecedented and have critically
expanded the possibilities of the
medium.
Andreas Gursky is curated by
Hayward Gallery Director, Ralph Rugoff,
in collaboration with the artist.
Torbjorn Calvero © Premium Rockshot.
ABBA: SUPER TROUPERS
Musician, author, actor and BBC Music
presenter Jarvis Cocker is narrator for
ABBA: Super Troupers, the brand new,
immersive exhibition at London’s
Southbank Centre. The exhibition recreates
the extraordinary rise to worldwide fame
and lasting legacy of ABBA (Agnetha
Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson,
and Anni-Frid Lyngstad), set against the
shifting socio-economic and political
conditions of the time.
Transforming a traditional exhibition
experience, immersive guided tours
include an audio narrative voiced by
Jarvis Cocker and written by journalist
and documentary maker Jude Rogers.
White boots worn by Benny Andersson on
ABBA’s European and North America tours in
1977 and 1979, hand-painted to match his outfit.
Audiences are transported on a journey
through previously unseen archive
material including ABBA’s original
costumes, handwritten notes and
sketches, personal photographs, music
and instruments, plus album artwork,
photography and film by notable
collaborators such as film director Lasse
Gold cape from ABBA’s 1977 Australian Tour
designed by Owe Sandstrom. Photo by Mikael
Bodner. Courtesy of ABBA The Museum.
Hallström. Theatrical backdrops recreate
some of the most significant events from
their heyday – including the Brighton
hotel room where ABBA celebrated their
Eurovision win, the Polar music studio
and a 1970s disco – and provide context
to the evolution of their creative process
and their enduring appeal, from the
Mamma Mia! phenomenon to their multimillion
record sales worldwide.
'All rather joyous' **** (The Times);
'A nostalgic treat' **** (Daily Mail);
'Outrageously excellent' (NME).
ABBA: Super Troupers is at
Southbank Centre from 14 December to
29 April. www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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A scene from Pinocchio, centre Joe Idris-Roberts.
PINOCCHIO National Theatre
Let’s face it, Pinocchio, a wooden boy
made from a magical tree by gentle
Geppetto, an elderly puppet maker who
always longed for a child, arrives on his
work bench as a fully formed, semiobnoxious
teenager.
He is hungry and eats all the food in
the house leaving none for Geppetto. He
promises to spend the day with his father,
but spies other kids through the window
and runs off to play with them instead. He
hears about school and wishes to go, so
Geppetto sells his only winter coat to buy
him an exercise book – but Pinocchio
drops the book in his haste to run away
and join a travelling theatre.
No one told Geppetto parenthood
would be this hard. But in the classic
tale – retold for this beautifully eerie and
organic setting by Dennis Kelly – there
is a Blue Fairy who cautions Pinocchio
about the trials of being the ‘real’ boy he
wants so badly to become.
The story is a fairytale of course and
rich with multiple meanings. This
production features magnificent, gigantic
puppets carried aloft onstage above the
main players, so the Fairy, Geppetto,
Jiminy Cricket and so on are all
mechanical as well as human. It is a
wondrous spectacle. Some roles have
been interestingly modernised since the
Disney version. Jiminy (Audrey Brisson)
is a girl and quite an annoying one at
that – obsessed with cleanliness and a
lot like an older sister to Pinocchio. He
doesn’t like her at all.
David Langham’s villainous and
slightly camp Fox is spot-on. Pinocchio
asks him repeatedly what the thing is
that unites all real human beings. Fox
kinks his tail, swishes his long orange
coat and comes up with answers such as
a longing for fame or desire for pleasure
or money or all three, all the while
selling him to other villains.
Pinocchio’s misadventures become
more gripping as the evening goes on.
Bob Crowley’s sets and costumes are
gorgeous to look at without being
sparkly. They consist of a great many
natural wooden objects, even including
the skeletal representation of the giant
whale, in whose great stomach
Pinocchio is finally reunited with his
shipwrecked father. Then there is the tiny
floating flame which represents the Fairy
and the low-tech broom handle which
grows as Pinocchio’s nose.
The simple things are best. And in the
end, Pinocchio learns that love is what
unites real people. His triumph is to turn
into a real boy made of flesh and blood
who both feels pain, but enjoys a hug
from his Dad. Bravo! Sue Webster
BELLEVILLE
Donmar
Being Americans in Paris proves a
tougher task than anticipated for recently
married couple Abby and Zack in Amy
Herzog’s play which premiered in 2011.
At first, all seems more or less fine in
the casually bohemian flat (realistically
designed by Tom Scutt) they’ve rented in
trendy Belleville so that medic Zack
could take up a research position
working on preventing kids from
contracting AIDS. Abby has given up a
career as an actress back in the States to
come with him, filling her time giving
yoga lessons and waiting obsessively for
transatlantic phone calls from her father
to update her on the progress of her
sister’s pregnancy.
It doesn’t take long, though, before,
bit by bit, the shaky foundations on
which their relationship is based are
revealed – Abby’s trying to wean herself
off the meds she’s been taking since the
death of her mother, Zack is far too fond
of smoking weed, regularly sharing a
bong (or preferably two) with their
Senegalese landlord Alioune (Malachi
Kirby). And Zack hasn’t paid the rent
James Norton and Imogen Poots are
completely credible as the ex-pat couple.
She’s fragile, anxious; he’s both insecure
and controlling. At times it feels almost
intrusive watching their sometimes
tender, sometimes damaging exchanges
in Michael Longhurst’s interval-free
production.
There’s more than a touch of the
melodramatic in the writing, but Herzog
keeps shifting the balance and the
compelling performances maintain the
tension in what proves to be a very
watchable psychological thriller.
Louise Kingsley
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All Or Nothing – Chris Simmons & Carol Harrison.
SMALL FACES MUSICAL ‘ALL OR
NOTHING’ WEST END TRANSFER
Following a third, critically acclaimed,
sell-out tour, All Or Nothing – The MOD
Musical – based on the story of the
Small Faces, will play a limited West
End season at the Arts Theatre, from
6 February to 11 March.
Written and directed by the awardwinning
actress Carol Harrison, All Or
Nothing is the story of four charismatic
young kids from East London with humour,
attitude, passion and, above all, talent.
They became the Small Faces and were
rocketed into the big time, only to
discover the path to success is paved with
exploitation, betrayal, and ultimately,
tragedy. The cast at the Arts Theatre is led
by Carol Harrison as Kay Marriott and
Chris Simmons as the older Steve Marriott.
In 1965, a new phenomenon erupted
out of London’s East End. It was the
essence of all that was cool. It was Mod.
All Or Nothing follows the rise and
demise of the Small Faces, the band
who encapsulated all that was Mod – a
unique blend of taste and testosterone,
clothes-obsessed and street-wise – but
most of all, a dedication to rhythm ‘n’
blues. The musical celebrates the unique
sound of this iconic Mod band, with all
the Small Faces’ hits, including Whatcha
Gonna Do About It, Tin Soldier, Lazy
Sunday, Here Comes the Nice, Itchycoo
Park and, of course, All or Nothing.
Photo: Phil Weedon.
Carol Harrison said of the West End
transfer, ‘I am honoured that All Or
Nothing has been embraced by so many
wonderful audiences who have laughed,
danced, wept and sang with us across
the length and breadth of the country.
I am so thrilled that we can now bring
the All or Nothing experience to the
West End. Watch out, ‘cos the Mods
are coming... Or maybe we just never
went away!’
Carol is well known for her role as
Louise Raymond in EastEnders. Her
theatre work includes Michael Rudman’s
production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a
Salesman at the National, Ripen Our
Darknessat the Royal Court, Alan Parker’s
production of Alfie at the Liverpool
Playhouse and Lee Hall’s Cooking with
Elvis at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe.
Chris Simmons is best known for
playing the role of DC Mickey Webb for
over twelve years in the long running
ITV series The Bill. His theatre credits
include Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent
Friends, Entertaining Strangers,
Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Iago in Othello and Epicoene.
The show is endorsed and supported
by many of those who feature in its
story, including singer P.P. Arnold and
Steve Marriott’s daughter, Mollie
Marriott, who is the show’s vocal coach
and creative consultant.
Box Office telephone 020 7836 8463.
CUBA GOODING JR TO STAR AS
BILLY FLYNN IN CHICAGO
Oscar winner, Cuba Gooding Jr will
be making his British stage debut and
his musical debut this spring as
smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn in the
multi award-winning Chicago at the
Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End.
Following a successful UK and
international tour, and after a 5½-year
absence from London, Chicago, the
winner of six Tony Awards, two Olivier
Awards and a Grammy, will begin
performances at the Phoenix Theatre on
Monday 26 March.
Cuba Gooding Jr’s breakthrough role
was as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood
(1991), followed by A Few Good Men
(1992), before winning the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor in Jerry
Maguire (1996). In 2016, he portrayed
O.J. Simpson in the FX drama series
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American
Crime Story, for which he received a
Primetime Emmy Award nomination for
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Mini-series
or a Movie.
Chicago, which is based on the play
by Maurine Dallas Watkins, has a book
by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by
John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
Cuba Gooding Jr as Billy Flynn
in Chicago.
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Photo: Helen Maybanks.
THE GRINNING MAN EXTENDS AT
TRAFALGAR STUDIOS
London’s new smash hit musical,
The Grinning Man, now playing at the
Trafalgar Studios, has a new extended
booking period until 14 April.
This critically acclaimed, awardwinning
production transferred into the
West End in December, following a
hugely successful premiere at Bristol
Old Vic, and has become an instant hit
across the board, with a wealth of critics,
bloggers and audiences raving about
The Grinning Man’s new London
incarnation. The show receives huge
praise and standing ovations at every
single performance, with news of the
riotous audience reaction spreading
sensationally via word of mouth.
As with the Bristol run, the critics
have heaped praise on the show too,
with a wealth of glowing reviews for the
London production. The Times said ‘the
cast are outstanding’, adding that ‘it’s a
triumph’. The Observer hailed it as
‘miraculous’ and the Daily Telegraph
raved about the ‘spectacular puppetry’.
As well as critics and the general
public, celebrities and creative minds have
also heaped praise on the show. Harry
Enfield proclaimed ‘the whole thing is
amazing’, while Hannah Waddingham was
‘overwhelmed’ by the production and Mel
Giedroyc applauded the ‘beautiful score’
which is ‘clever and haunting’, declaring
‘I want to see it again’.
The Grinning Man, directed by Tony
award-winning Tom Morris (War Horse),
features an ‘outstanding’ cast (The
Times), led by Louis Maskell in the title
role of Grinpayne and Sanne den Besten
as Dea, with Julian Bleach as vengeful
clown Barkilphedro. Also starring are
Sean Kingsley, Julie Atherton, Amanda
Wilkin and Mark Anderson.
Based on the classic Victor Hugo
(Les Misérables) novel The Man Who
Laughs, this romantic gothic musical
love story set in a fantastical world with
a dark heart, is brought to life by
Kneehigh writer Carl Grose (Dead Dog
in a Suitcase) and ‘powered by an
outstanding score’ (Sunday Times) by
Tim Phillips and Marc Teitler. The
Grinning Man reunites Tom Morris with
two puppeteers who began their careers
inside Joey and Topthorn in the original
production of War Horse – Finn
Caldwell and Toby Olié – now leading
their own puppetry company Gyre &
Gimble.
The Grinning Man joins several other
recent Bristol Old Vic hit shows
transferring to the London stage,
including Swallows & Amazons at the
Vaudeville, Peter Pan and Jane Eyre at
the National Theatre and Long Day’s
Journey Into Night starring Jeremy Irons
and Lesley Manville at the Wyndham’s.
Box Office: 0844 871 7632 or online
at www.atgtickets.com/trafalgarstudios
TheGrinningManMusical.com
LAST CHANCE TO CATCH LA SOIRÉE
Audiences have just over three weeks
left to catch the irresistible La Soirée and
its brand new family-friendly show,
La Petite Soirée in its newest home at
the Aldwych Theatre. The shows will end
on 3 February.
This latest incarnation of La Soirée’s
infamous dysfunctional family is the
most daring line-up to date and features
multiple new jaw-dropping acts from
across the globe. Putting the Aldwych
Theatre in a spin, La Soirée has
transformed this traditional theatre into
an intimate cabaret club with La Soirée’s
much-loved, in-the-round seating still in
place. So, prepare to be charmed,
astonished and electrified by the very
loveable crème de la crème of the
cabaret world.
This season, for the first time,
La Soirée is also offering La Petite
Soirée, a family-friendly, fun and daring
hour-long show for cabaret fans of all
ages that promises all the spirit of the
Olivier Award winning entertainment but
less of the sauce. La Petite Soirée plays
at 15.00 on Saturdays.
La Soirée and La Petite Soirée are
presented by Brett Haylock, Mark
Rubinstein and Mick Perrin.
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PLAYS
BEGINNING
Justine Mitchell and Sam Troughton reprise
their critically acclaimed roles as Laura and
Danny, in this season’s smash-hit; a tender and
funny story about the first fragile moments of
risking your heart and taking a chance.
AMBASSADORS THEATRE
West Street, WC2 (020 7395 5405)
JULIUS CAESAR
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the
people pour out of their homes to celebrate.
Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the
educated élite conspire to bring him down.
After his assassination, civil war erupts on the
streets of the capital.
BRIDGE THEATRE
One Tower Bridge, SE1 (0843 208 1846)
THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY
One enormous diamond, eight incompetent
crooks and a snoozing security guard. What
could possibly go right?
CRITERION THEATRE
Piccadilly Circus, (020 7492 0810)
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
A Polytechnic amateur drama group are
putting on a 1920s murder mystery and
everything that can go wrong... does!
DUCHESS THEATRE
Catherine Street, WC2 (0330 333 4810)
MARY STUART
Schiller’s political tragedy takes us behind the
scenes of some of British history’s most
crucial days. Playing both Elizabeth I and
Mary Stuart, Juliet Stevenson and Lia
Williams trade the play’s central roles, decided
at each performance by the toss of a coin.
DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE
St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (020 7492 1552)
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
An innocent outsider, a suspicious rural
community, a gothic house and a misty marsh
are the ingredients of this Victorian ghost story.
FORTUNE THEATRE
Russell Street, WC2 (0844 871 7626)
THE FERRYMAN
Jez Butterworth’s new major drama won
widespread critical acclaim when it opened at
the Royal Court and was the fastest selling
show in the theatre’s history. Directed by Sam
Mendes.
GIELGUD THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0844 482 5130)
The cast of The Ferryman.
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Ian Rickson directs a major new revival of
Harold Pinter’s brilliantly mysterious darkcomic
masterpiece, starring Zoe Wanamaker,
Toby Jones and Stephen Mangan.
HAROLD PINTER THEATRE
Panton Street, SW1 (0844 871 7627)
Royal National Theatre
Plays in repertory
OLIVIER THEATRE
AMADEUS
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young
prodigy, arrives in Vienna determined to make
a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court
composer Antonio Salieri has the power to
promote his talent or destroy it.
LYTTELTON THEATRE
NETWORK
Hilarious and horrifying by turns, Lee Hall
and director Ivo Van Hove bring Paddy
Chayefsky’s iconic film to the stage for the
first time.
PINOCCHIO
On a quest to be truly alive, Pinocchio leaves
Geppetto’s workshop with Jiminy Cricket in
tow. Their electrifying adventure takes them
from alpine forests to Pleasure Island to the
bottom of the ocean.
DORFMAN THEATRE
JOHN
An uncanny new play by Annie Baker, whose
Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick had a soldout
run at the National in 2016. James
Macdonald directs.
NATIONAL THEATRE
South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3000)
Photo: Johan-Persson.
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED
CHILD PARTS I & II
A new stage play based on the Harry Potter
franchise written by Jack Thorne, based on
an original story by J.K Rowling.
PALACE THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4813)
THE EXORCIST
John Pielmeier's stage adaptation of William
Peter Blatty's novel, starring Jenny Seagrove,
Peter Bowles and Adam Garcia.
PHOENIX THEATRE
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 871 7627)
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
David Mamet's modern classic is set in an
office of cut-throat Chicago salesmen. Pitched
in competition against each other, they will do
anything to sell the most real estate.
PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Northumberland Ave, WC2, (0844 871 7631)
THE MOUSETRAP
Agatha Christie’s whodunnit is the longest
running play of its kind in the history of the
British theatre.
ST MARTIN’S THEATRE
West Street, WC2 (0844 499 1515)
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN
Following Dominic Dromgoole’s engaging
revival of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, awardwinning
director Kathy Burke has brought
together a talented comedic cast for her highly
anticipated production
VAUDEVILLE THEATRE
Strand, WC2 (020 7400 1257)
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville reprise their
roles in Richard Eyre’s acclaimed production
of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer prize-winning
masterpiece
WYNDHAM’S THEATRE
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 482 5120)
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MUSICALS
KINKY BOOTS
Inspired by a true story and based on the
Miramax film, the show tells the story of Charlie
Price who has reluctantly inherited his father's
Northampton shoe factory.
ADELPHI THEATRE
Strand, WC2 (020 3725 7060)
LA SOIREE
The show promises to amaze audiences with its
heady cocktail of cabaret, new burlesque, circus
sideshow and contemporary variety in an
inspirational night of live entertainment.
ALDWYCH THEATRE
Aldwych, WC2 (0845 200 7981)
WICKED
Hit Broadway story of how a clever,
misunderstood girl with emerald green skin
and a girl who is beautiful and popular turn
into the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda
the Good Witch in the Land of Oz.
APOLLO VICTORIA THEATRE
Wilton Road, SW1 (0844 826 8000)
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE
New musical starring John McCrea transfers
to the West End following a sold-out run at
Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.
APOLLO THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (020 7851 2711)
MATILDA
Critically acclaimed Royal Shakespeare
Company production of Roald Dahl’s book,
directed by Matthew Warchus.
CAMBRIDGE THEATRE
Earlham Street, WC2 (0844 800 1110)
FROZEN
Frozen explores the interwoven lives of three
strangers as they try to make sense of the
unimaginable. From 9 February.
HAYMARKET THEATRE ROYAL
Haymarkett, SW1 (020 7930 8800)
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Long running epic romance by Andrew Lloyd
Webber, set behind the scenes of a Paris opera
house where a deformed phantom stalks his prey.
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE
Haymarket, SW1 (0844 412 2707)
THE LION KING
Disney‘s phenomenally successful animated
film is transformed into a spectacular stage
musical, a superb evening of visual delight.
LYCEUM THEATRE
Wellington Street, WC2 (0844 871 3000)
THRILLER – LIVE
High octane show celebrating the career of the
King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Over two hours
of the non-stop hit songs that marked his
legendary live performances.
LYRIC THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0330 333 4812)
FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE
Director Clarke Peters calls the show a
'revusical’, a 90-minute tribute to the black
song-writer/saxophonist, Louis Jordan.
MARBLE ARCH THEATRE
Marble Arch, W1 (020 7400 1257)
SCHOOL OF ROCK
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage musical
with lyrics by Glenn Slater and book by Julian
Fellowes, adapted from the film.
NEW LONDON THEATRE
Drury Lane, WC2 (020 7492 0810)
GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
The World Premiere of Conor McPherson's new
play in London, featuring classic songs by Bob
Dylan.
NOEL COWARD THEATRE
St. Martin’s Lane, WC2 (0844 482 5140)
MAMMA MIA!
Hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, set
around the story of a mother and daughter on
the eve of the daughter’s wedding.
NOVELLO THEATRE
Aldwych, WC2 (0844 482 5170)
ANNIE
Revival of the famous musical starring Meera
Syall. A Depression-era rags-to-riches story
featuring the songs It's The Hard-Knock Life,
Easy Street and Tomorrow.
PICCADILLY THEATRE
Denman Street, W1 (0844 871 7630)
ALADDIN
The classic hit film has been brought to thrilling
life on stage by Disney, featuring all the songs
from the Academy Award winning score.
PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE
Old Compton Street, W1 (0844 482 5151)
BOOK OF MORMON
Broadway musical takes shots at everything
from organised religion to consumerism, state
of the economy and the musical theatre genre.
PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE
Coventry Street, W1 (0844 482 5115)
LES MISERABLES
A spectacularly staged version of Victor Hugo’s
epic novel about an escaped convict’s
search for redemption in Revolutionary France.
QUEEN’S THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0844 482 5160)
DREAMGIRLS
West End premiere, starring Marisha Wallace.
Set in the USA during the late 1960s and
early 1970s, it follows a young female singing
trio as they become music superstars.
SAVOY THEATRE
Strand, WC2 (020 7492 0810)
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL
Featuring all the much loved classics from
Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5,
the show tells the story behind the hits.
SHAFTESBURY THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (020 7492 0810)
42ND STREET
The song and dance, American dream fable,
where af small town girl, Peggy Sawyer’s rise
from chorus line to Broadway star.
THEATRE ROYAL
Drury Lane, WC2 (020 7492 0810)
THE GRINNING MAN
A new musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's
1869 novel The Laughing Man, about a
travelling sideshow freak whose face has been
carved with a permanent smile.
TRAFALGAR STUDIO
Whitehall, SW1 (0844 871 7632)
HAMILTON
Lin-Manuel Miranda's multi award-winning
musical, based on Ron Chernow's biography
of one of the American 'Founding Fathers'
Alexander Hamilton.
VICTORIA PALACE THEATRE
Victoria Street, SW1 (0844 248 5000)
Ruby Stokes (Annie) and Amber (Sandy)
in Annie at the Piccadilly Theatre.
Photo: Paul Coltas.
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BURNS NIGHT AT THE
BLOOMSBURY CLUB BAR
Celebrate Burns Night in true Scottish
style on 25 January at The Bloomsbury
Club Bar in honour of the memory of
Scotland's favourite poet, Robert Burns,
with a special Burns Night party. Guests
can expect a night of entertainment with
live music, a unique Talisker Whiskey
cocktail menu and an indulgent selection
of traditional Scottish small plates for a
bonnie night of feasting.
The celebration will see an array of
Burn’s Night favourites including Deep
Fried Mars Bars Bites alongside
Scottish-inspired drinks with a Talisker
Single Malt Scotch Whisky cocktail
menu, including Barrel Aged Bobby
Burns and Barrel Aged Rusty Nail
created by bar manager Brian Calleja.
Other highlights of the cocktail menu are
The Whiskey Sour, Talisker 10 Year,
Lemon Juice, Sugar Syrup, Angostura
Bitters, Egg White and Hot Toddy,
Talisker 10 Year, Lemon Juice, Sugar
Syrup, Steam, Spice. Those looking for
the ultimate whiskey experience can
enjoy Flight Through Skye, a flight of
three Whiskies, Talisker Skye, Talisker
Storm and Talisker Port Ruighe, priced
at £20, exclusively served with Campbell
& Co Smoked Salmon.
Additionally, The Bloomsbury Club Bar
is offering a menu of Scottish small plates
to enjoy alongside the bespoke drinks
menu. This exclusive menu, created by
Executive Head Chef Byron Moussouris,
will see a variety of Scotland’s culinary
favourites.
Highlights of main menu include
Haggis & Truffle Sausage Rolls, Whisky
Cured Smoked Salmon with Horseradish
Cream and Pickled Cucumber and Neep
& Tatty Croquettes with Whisky Gravy.
For those looking to truly indulge this
Burns Night can enjoy The Bloomsbury
Club Bar’s Deep Fried Mars Bar Bites and
Irn-Bru Sorbet.
The Bloomsbury Club Bar is a
seductive and atmospheric space,
creating the perfect backdrop for an
evening. The bar is split into two areas:
the main bar and the outer terrace bar.
The walls in the main bar area are
adorned with artwork and books
synonymous with the Bloomsbury Set,
with a subtle English colonial influence.
It has a traditional members’ club feel,
allowing guests to relax and enjoy their
evening in style.
SANDERSON PARTNERS WITH
MINDFUL CHEF AND JUICEMAN
The Fitzrovia hotel has teamed up
with nutrition gurus Mindful Chef and
Juiceman to create a feel-good, detox
menu, available in The Restaurant at
Sanderson, as well as in the spa and via
room service. The limited-edition
selection of dishes and drinks will be on
offer from breakfast to dinner, from
8–22 January, providing a vitaminpacked
antidote to festive indulgence.
Each of the dish options boasts
further benefits thanks to Andrew
Cooper, also known as Juiceman.
Andrew has designed a drinks menu of
cold pressed shots and juices, which
have been matched with the food menu
to highlight complementary flavours.
VEGAN OFFERINGS FROM
FRANCESCO MAZZEI
To celebrate Veganuary and the everincreasing
demand for vegan dishes in his
restaurants, the highly-acclaimed Italian
chef, Francesco Mazzei, is offering a
sumptuous vegan chocolate cake across
all three of his London restaurants. The
rich and luxurious cake is made with the
finest chocolate from Agrimontana, and is
served with a chocolate and candied
orange sorbet. Francesco Mazzei’s vegan
chocolate cake will be available
throughout January at Sartoria on Savile
Row, Radici in Islington, and the newlyopened
Fiume at Battersea Power Station.
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