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Photo: Matt Crockett.
KINKY BOOTS REVEALS FIRST LOOK
AT FINAL LONDON COMPANY
A huge hit with audiences since it
opened in September 2015, Kinky Boots,
the winner of every major Best Musical
award, will play its final performance at
London’s Adelphi Theatre on 12 January
2019.
With a book by Broadway legend and
four-time Tony® Award-winner Harvey
Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles) and
songs by Grammy® and Tony® Awardwinning
pop icon Cyndi Lauper, this
joyous musical celebration is about the
friendships we discover, and the belief
that you can change the world when you
change your mind.
Inspired by true events, Kinky Boots
takes you from a gentlemen’s shoe
factory in Northampton to the glamorous
catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is
struggling to live up to his father’s
expectations and continue the family
business of Price & Son. With the
factory’s future hanging in the balance,
help arrives in the unlikely but
spectacular form of Lola, a fabulous
performer in need of some sturdy new
stilettos.
For tickets, telephone the box office
on 020 7087 7754.
BBC PROMS
With more than 100,000 tickets
available at under £15, Promming
(standing) tickets costing just £6 and
half-price seats for under-18s, the BBC
Proms continues to bring the best of
classical music to the widest possible
audience. With world-class
performances for those coming to the
Royal Albert Hall and to the millions of
people at home through BBC TV, online
platforms and BBC Radio 3, where every
note is broadcast, the Proms audience
continues to grow ever wider.
Across more than 90 concerts over
eight-weeks, the Proms draws the
world’s greatest classical musicians to
London, including Kirill Petrenko with
the Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Antonio
Pappano with the Orchestra of the
Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, Daniel
Barenboim with the West–Eastern Divan
Orchestra, Joyce DiDonato, Joshua Bell
and Yuja Wang. The 2018 Proms marks
a range of events that occurred 100
years ago. Leonard Bernstein, who was
born in 1918, was one of the most
influential musicians of the 20th century.
His work as conductor, composer,
pianist, and educationalist are explored
in depth this season.
UK PREMIERE OF CARMEN LA
CUBANA AT SADLER’S WELLS
The legendary story of Carmen is
given a Cuban twist in Carmen La
Cubana, which receives its UK premiere
at Sadler’s Wells from Wednesday
1 - Saturday 18 August.
Inspired by George Bizet’s opera
Carmen and Oscar Hammerstein II’s
musical adaptation Carmen Jones,
internationally renowned musical theatre
director Christopher Renshaw and
Grammy and Tony Award-winning
arranger and orchestrator Alex
Lacamoire (In the Heights and Hamilton)
present a new and contemporary vision
of the classic story.
Carmen La Cuba is a gripping love
story set against the backdrop of 1950s
Cuba, at the dawn of the revolution. An
opulent tableau designed by Tom Piper
shows Cuba as the action develops from
the gates of a cigar factory in the
Caribbean island’s rural south east to the
bustling life of the bars and clubs in
Santiago and Havana.
Carmen La Cubana.
Photo: Johan Persson.
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