A CHRISTMAS TALE OF TWO HALVES - NORTHALLERTON FLOWER CLUB

Northallerton Flower Club are delighted to welcome Jacqui O with her stylish Demonstration entitled "A Christmas Tale of Two Halves". Jacqui is an award-winning luxury wedding and event floral designer from Chesire.  Jacqui will conjure up breathtaking designs which will showcase some of the most wonderful gifts of Nature. With her creative imagination and flair, Jacqui will certainly set the scene for a Christmas Tale not to be forgotten. Do come and join us for this mesmerising event and start the Christmas Season with a bang!

BEAUTY & THE BEAST - NMTC

Northallerton Musical Theatre Company are excited to be staging Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" this October at The Forum, Northallerton.   

An Enchantress turns a selfish and spoiled young Prince into a hideous beast and the only way to break the spell is for the Beast to learn to love another and earn their love in return before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose. If he can't he will remain a beast for ever!  

The staff in his castle are also caught up in the spell and transform into household objects (teapot, candlestick, wardrobe, clock). 

NMTC are sure they can bring all the magic of the show to the Forum stage and hope you will join them on this magical journey.  

Step into the enchanted world of Broadway's classic, based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, the stage version includes all of the wonderful songs written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, along with new songs by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice.

By arrangement with Musical Theatre International.

CELINE - MY HEART WILL GO ON

After a sold out tour across the UK and Europe in 2023, Celine- My Heart Will Go On is back for 2024 bigger and better than ever!!!  The concert is a stunning celebration of the music and one of the greatest singers of our time. Starring Alexandra Darby as seen on ITV -This Morning and an outstanding live band, the audience are taken on a magical ride through four decades of hits that include: The Power Of Love, It's All Coming Back To Me Now, I'm Alive, All By Myself, Because You Loved Me, My Heart Will Go On and many more…

Join us for an unmissable evening as we pay homage to the Queen of power ballads then dance the night away in this glorious concert taking Europe by storm!!

Experience the next best thing to the real artist.

FESTIVAL OF REMEMBRANCE

For our annual Festival of Remembrance this year, Musical Director Alan Owens has once again brought together our Festival Concert Band and Crash Bang Wallop Youth Theatre Singers to bring us hits from Stage & Screen including music by Andrew Lloyd-Webber, John Barry, Glenn Miller and many more, plus tributes to all the Nations Armed Forces Past & Present and the customary Act of Remembrance dedications.

This years supported Charities are once again the Lance Corporal Ben Hyde Memorial Trust and the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

JOE MCELDERRY - THE CLASSIC COLLECTION LIVE IN CONCERT 2024

Coming to you in 2024. Joe McElderry brings a unique classic show, taking the audience through the beautiful classic crossover repertoire of his Popstar to Opera journey, from dipping his toes in the operatic pool to winning the show.

‘The Classic Collection’ show will also include many timeless songs from musical theatre, allowing you to sit back, relax and enjoy.

KEVIN BLOODY WILSON (18)

KEVIN BLOODY WILSON:

INTERNATIONAL DILLIGAF DAY - 40 years of KEVIN BLOODY WILSON

Run time to be confirmed.

2024 marks 40 years since Kev’s first album was released (which went on to obtain quadruple platinum status)

20 albums later, this comedy icon’s fan base continues to grow with new generations of fans flocking to experience Kev’s PC free live shows.

Tiktok, YouTube, Facebook or in the flesh, however you consume your Kev, there’s no denying he is the master of musical comedy and sharing his DILLIGAF attitude and way of life has made him the world's favourite Aussie storyteller.

INTERNATIONAL DILLIGAF DAY… it’s every day!

There are few international comedians today who shoot down political correctness with such comedic pin point accuracy as Australia’s Kevin Bloody Wilson.

While todays Age Of Outrage has his contemporaries ducking for cover over anything slightly controversial, Kev crushes PC eggshells with the grace and diplomacy of a wounded buffalo.  Kev’s famous DILLIGAF* approach to PC is a breath of fresh air, direct, clever and outrageously funny. He doesn’t mince words and he doesn’t rely on subtlety to get his point across. In his new show FUPC, Kev tackles political correctness head on.  His BS filters and brilliant comedic mind enables him say it as he sees it in a way we wish we all could. His directness totally embodies the spirit of Australian humour.

In recent times, Kevin Bloody Wilson has become a sought after social commentator and the media’s ‘go to guy’ for his comical, yet common sense take on political correctness. After a recent appearance on Australia’s 60 minutes programme, host Charles Wooley commented, “If political correctness was a disease, Kevin Bloody Wilson would be the cure”.

(*DILLIGAF - Do I Look Like I Give A F+#@)

                                               

Australia - Canada - South Africa - New Zealand - England - Ireland _ Scotland - Wales -  Kevin Bloody Wilson is revered around the globe for his Outback Aussie Outlaw take on life. He’s performed everywhere throughout his career, from outback pubs and shearing sheds to the hallowed halls of the London Palladium, packing out major venues wherever he performs. An evening in the company of Kevin Bloody Wilson is must see for all of us desperately in need of some PC Pushback. Kev’s is not just a concert performance, it is a full-on event and an opportunity for all of us to tick off our bucket-list – see a ‘national institution’ in concert, done!

It’s been well documented that all of KBW’s non PC Bawdy Ballads contain an infectious singalong quality that stay with you forever. Kev’s FUPC World Tour Show includes a raft of brand new songs that are bound to have his audiences in stitches, from the opening tour title track, FUPC, to his unique take on on the worldwide #Me Too Movement in his hilarious new fan singalong, ‘DIY Me Too!’ Just like DILLIGAF, Dick’taphone, Hey Santa Clause and Living Next Door To Alan, these newly crafted songs are guaranteed to become Kev Klassics. His music has helped define our Aussie humour – Billy Connolly describes his little Aussie Mate as “The World’s funniest Australian”.

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In a world almost drowning in a tsunami of Political Correctness, Kevin Bloody Wilson stands out as a beacon for PC Pushback.

Considered by Billy Connolly as‘The Worlds Funniest Australian’, Kevin Bloody Wilson is as dry and as rough as his Outback heritage.

His latest stage performance F.U.P.C. spotlights Political Correctness for what it is and how he sees it….a joke!

Kev’s 20 Albums of self penned Bawdy Ballads have generated millions of sales and his global legion of fans have elevated KBW to Rock Star Status.

American Audiences will revel in a knee-slapping, outrageously funny night of our Kev’s common sense take on Political Correctness.    

Social Justice Warriors, Snowflakes and PC Advocates are invited to stay home………The rest of us are gonna have a ball!

Kevin Bloody Wilson’s story is now one of legend. Always a larrikin, he originally wrote and recorded songs on a homemade cassette tape for his mates, simply songs penned about his experiences living in the Outback and working nights as a part time musician and an electrician by day in the gold mines in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Sales of this initial cassette skyrocketed to the tens of thousands before it was transferred to vinyl, where it proceeded to sell tens of thousands more. It was just the start of a career that Kev admits he never saw coming. and he has never looked back.

www.kevinbloodywilson.com

LEE (15)

The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

Directed by: Ellen Kuras

Starring: Kate Winslet, Alexander Skarsgård, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Josh O'Connor, Antony Penrose, Andy Samberg

Release Date: 13/09/2024

NIGEL PLANER & HENRY NORMAL (14+)

Nigel Planer is a comedy legend, an actor, writer and more importantly for this show he's a great poet. He joins Henry Normal, BBC Radio 4's 'poet in reticence' to reunite a team that entertains, educates and informs (but mostly entertains it must be said). Expect poetry, stories, jokes, Q & A, fun, knitwear, and a few surprises.

Nigel George Planer is a British actor, writer and musician. He played Neil in the BBC comedy The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

RB&O: WOLF WITCH GIANT FAIRY (PG)

The Royal Opera

WOLF WITCH GIANT FAIRY

An 'as live' filmed production

Age rating to be confirmed.

Do not miss this 'enchantingly staged' family folk opera, following the triumphant, Olivier Award-

winning run in 2021.

Red Riding Hood is tasked with delivering bread to her Grandmother, deep in the heart of the fairy-tale forest. But en route, Red meets a cunning Wolf who tricks her into taking a different path. Along the way, Red stumbles into a colourful cast of characters, including a scary witch, a talking cat and a rather persuasive Peddler. Join our ragtag band of wild musicians as they guide all the family through this famous tale with new twists, turns, magic and song.

Cast:

DEVISED AND PERFORMED BY:

The Ensemble

Clare Beresford

Peter Brathwaite

Dominic Conway

Miriam Gould

Eugénie Pastor

Tom Penn

Alexander Scott

Shamira Turner

Jon Whitten

Claire Wild

Creatives:

DIRECTOR Alexander Scott

CONCEIVED AND CREATED BY Little Bulb

MUSICAL DIRECTORS Dominic Conway and Clare Beresford

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER Samuel Wyer

LIGHTING DESIGNER Joshua Pharo

SOUND DESIGNER Ed Clarke

CONSULTANT MUSICAL DIRECTOR Yshani Perinpanayagam

SU POLLARD - STILL FULLY CHARGED

Oh eck! It’s been 50 years...

Meet Su and her accompanist live on stage to celebrate her 50 years in show business with a night of hilarious laughter, fabulous songs and wonderful stories!

For 50 years the legendary Su Pollard has delighted audiences, starring in the nation’s best-known TV shows and on stages around the globe in some of the world’s most-loved musicals.

From humble beginnings on TV’s Opportunity Knocks (where she came second to a singing dog), through her years as Maplin’s chalet maid Peggy in the hit BBC TV series Hi-de-Hi!, to her West End and national touring roles in Godspell, Annie and Little Shop of Horrors, and her more recent TV appearances on Celebrity Masterchef, Gimme Gimme Gimme and Would I Lie To You?- it’s been an action-packed half-century of sheer entertainment. And she’s only getting started!

Su’s new one-woman show Still Fully Charged brings a national treasure face-to-face with an adoring public to celebrate the amazing characters she has been fortunate enough to play, the incredible friends and colleagues she met along the way, and the staggering range of music she has performed and recorded throughout her illustrious career.

So join Su for an evening of hilarious stories from 50 years in show business, featuring songs from the shows, backstage secrets from her diaries, and maybe even the appearance of one or two familiar characters!

Accompanied live on stage by her musical director Steven Edis, Su Pollard (winner of the 2023 Panto Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 1988 award for Rear of the Year) is here to show that she’s Still Fully Charged and still ready for ‘Action!’.

Directed by Paul Boyd

Musical Director Steve Edis

Written by Paul Boyd and Su Pollard

THE CRITIC (15)

A powerful London theater critic lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences.

Directed by: Anand Tucker

Starring: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Ben Barnes, Alfred Enoch, Romola Garai, Lesley Manville

Release date: 13/09/2024

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL - CINEMA LIVE (PG)

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Of The Opera is a worldwide entertainment phenomenon. It has been staged in 145 cities across 27 countries and its box office sales eclipse Avatar, Titanic and Star Wars. To celebrate its 25th Anniversary year, Cameron Mackintosh presented The Phantom Of The Opera in a fully-staged, lavish production set in the sumptuous Victorian splendour of the Royal Albert Hall. Phantom Of The Opera At The Albert Hall stars Ramin Karimloo as 'The Phantom' and Sierra Boggess as 'Christine'. They are joined by a supporting cast and orchestra of over 200, plus some very special guest appearances.

THE WIZARD OF OZ

Take a stroll down the yellow brick road this October half term as Tom Rolfe Productions proudly present everyone’s favourite pantomime story The Wizard of Oz live on stage. Expect dazzling scenery, beautiful costumes, hilarious comedy and much more! So what are you waiting for book your tickets, click your heels together and join Dorothy, Lion, Tinman and Scarecrow for the ultimate half term treat!

WOMEN IN ROCK - A celebration of the greatest female anthems

You think you know rock?! GIRL now you do…Because The Night Belongs To Us!! Join us for a night of unforgettable and outrageous female rock on the 8th November!

The critically acclaimed Women in Rock UK tour is coming to The Forum Northallerton for one night only, and this is a concert you don’t wanna miss!

Celebrating the sensationally strong female leaders of rock, including Blondie, Suzi Q, Janis Joplin, Heart, Joan Jett, Pink, Kiki Dee, Bonnie Tyler, Cher and so many more! Hell yeah if we Could Turn Back Time we’d go see them all in one night too - you go girls. ;)

With a cast of world-class musicians and vocalists that deliver a blistering 2-hour performance, you’ll be singing, dancing and rocking out from the off with hit after hit. Don’t worry boys, there’s something here for everyone, it’s a bring-the-whole-family affair!

A show unlike any other with electric costume changes, soaring vocals, impressive harmonies and audience interaction, you will not be disappointed. Join us for iconic songs such as Piece Of My Heart, Black Velvet, You Oughta Know & Left Outside Alone as we show you just what these women are made of. You’ll be left in awe of the vocal ability of the Women in Rock cast and feeling like you can take on the world!

The reviews speak for themselves… So grab your mic, let your hair down and get your tickets for the best night out ever!