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Premier League games under new SAFC manager David Moyes and<br />
the usual top shows at the Sunderland Empire will be some of the<br />
entertainment highlights over the next couple of months.<br />
Early-season games against Moyes’s old side Everton and former<br />
Magpie boss Alan Pardew’s Crystal Palace will have the Stadium of Light<br />
rocking, while the Sunderland Empire will host three amazing shows<br />
– Sister Act, Cats and Ghost.<br />
Alexandra Burke will play the lead role in the all-new West End production<br />
of Sister Act, the musical comedy (September 5 -10).<br />
Barely a week later, the smash-hit West End musical Cats returns to the<br />
Sunderland Empire. Adapted from TS Elliot’s Old Possum’s Book of<br />
Practical Cats and with music from Andrew Lloyd-Webber, the show is on<br />
Wearside from September 19 – 24.<br />
The last of September’s hat-trick of musical hits, Ghost, features new music<br />
and original staging and is based on the hit movie starring Demi Moore<br />
and Patrick Swayze. It takes to the Sunderland Empire stage between<br />
September 26 and October 1.<br />
Another major attraction to wow Wearsiders starting in late September will<br />
be the Sunderland Illuminations. Bigger and brighter than ever before,<br />
this year’s illuminations will take place in Roker Park and along the seafront<br />
from September 24 until November 5.<br />
The event will feature exciting new lighting installations plus some old<br />
favourites and some sparkling surprises including dinosaurs, pirates, Alice<br />
in Wonderland, a fairy dell, a sea of stars and state of the art projections.<br />
The Sunderland Literature and Creative Writing Festival also starts in<br />
late September, and once again the city’s annual celebration of the written<br />
word will have something for everyone. Local artists and authors featuring<br />
will include Tony Wilson, Jayne Hughes and Amanda Revell-Walton.<br />
There will be family history taster sessions as well as reading and creative<br />
writing groups and workshops. There’ll also be taster sessions, music and<br />
singing for young children. The festival will run at venues across the city<br />
from September 30 to October 31 and the majority of events are free.<br />
Whatever you’re up to over the autumn months, keep logging on to<br />
www.vibemagazine.co.uk for the very latest on what’s going on.<br />
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