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!

ANDRÉ RIEU'S 2024 CHRISTMAS CONCERT: GOLD AND SILVER (TBC)

Celebrate the holiday season with André Rieu's dazzling Christmas Concert, "Gold and Silver," exclusively in cinemas! This magical event embodies the festive spirit of Christmas, bringing joy, warmth, and sparkle to the big screen.

Get ready to be transported to the wondrous world of enchanting glamour that is André's winter wonderland! Under the sparkle of 150 chandeliers and 50 Venetian candelabras, feel your heart warm with the magical melody of all your favourite Christmas classics.

André Rieu will be joined on stage by his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra, along with special guest artists and the young and talented Emma Kok.

Don’t miss this chance to celebrate music, love, and Christmas sparkle, with André Rieu's new Christmas Concert in cinemas - " Gold and Silver ".

COUNT ARTHUR STRONG IS CHARLES DICKENS IN 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL'

Live Nation & Komedia Entertainment Presents

Count Arthur Strong is Charles Dickens in 'A Christmas Carol'

Arthur delivers the Charles Dickens story and follows this with his own adaptation of the most classic of festive tales, A Christmas Carol.

Due to public pressure, Count Arthur Strong extends his fond farewell to you, for a ‘once in a lifetime’ limited run. As he takes on, one of the literary greats, the famous Charles Dickens, and then goes on to present his one-man interpretation of A Christmas Carol. ‘If you miss it, you weren’t there!’

‘Pure genius and pure tribute to the golden age of vaudeville’

Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard

'At every turn, his performance gives us something to marvel at'

Brian Logan, The Guardian

Run time to be confirmed

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.

FIRE FIGHTERS' CAROL CONCERT

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and The Fire Fighters Charity present...

Lockwood Brass Band Carol Concert!

Tuesday 3rd December 2024

Doors open at 18:30 with the concert starting at 19:30

Start the festive season early and come join the successful Lockwood Brass Band in performing all your favourite Christmas carols. Appealing to all ages this event is guaranteed to put you in the festive spirit as well as helping raise funds to support injured firefighters and their families.

Tickets are free, but you must reserve your place. No entry will be permitted to those without a ticket.

GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY - CINEMA LIVE (12A)

Written and directed by celebrated playwright Conor McPherson and featuring Tony Award-winning orchestrations by Simon Hale, Girl From The North Country reimagines 20 legendary songs of Bob Dylan as they’ve never been heard before, including “Forever Young,” “All Along The Watchtower,” “Hurricane,” and “Like A Rolling Stone.”

It’s 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota. We meet a group of wayward travellers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life and hope. Experience this “profoundly beautiful” Broadway production (The New York Times) brought to vivid life by an extraordinary company of actors and musicians.

Rating to be confirmed

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

MADE IN TENNESSEE

Country fans are given a taste of Nashville with Soul Street Productions’ sell-out show Made in Tennessee - A Night of Country Music.

With a band made up of some of UK’s finest country musicians, Made in Tennessee takes you through the decades of the nation's fastest growing music genre, from Country’s origin in the Southern States of America to modern day Country heard around the world.

Featuring classics from Johnny, June, Dolly and Hank, legends like Garth Brooks and Carrie Underwood and modern country superstars such as Kacey Musgraves and Chris Stapleton.

Book your tickets now to experience the best show east of Tennessee!

Facebook: @madeintennessee

Instagram: @madeintennesseeshow

Website: https://www.soulstreetproductions.com/made-in-tennessee

RB&O: CINDERELLA (12A)

The Royal Ballet

CINDERELLA

Live streamed event.

This Christmas, be transported into an ethereal world where a sprinkling of fairy dust makes dreams come true. This enchanting ballet by The Royal Ballet’s Founding Choreographer Frederick Ashton is a theatrical experience for all the family.

Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, Cinderella’s life is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious woman out...With a little bit of magic, she is transported into an ethereal new world – one where fairies bring the gifts of the seasons, where pumpkins turn into carriages, and where true love awaits.

Cast:

To be confirmed

Creatives:

CHOREOGRAPHY Frederick Ashton

MUSIC Sergey Prokofiev

SET DESIGNER Tom Pye

COSTUME DESIGNER Alexandra Byrne

LIGHTING DESIGNER David Finn

VIDEO DESIGNER Finn Ross

ILLUSIONS Chris Fisher

CONDUCTOR Jonathan Lo

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 MIRROR CRACK'D - THE ALLERTON PLAYERS

Popular local drama group, the Allerton Players, present The Mirror Crack’d by Agatha Christie, in an innovative new adaptation by Rachel Wagstaff.

It is 1962 and St Mary Mead has been thrown into a frenzy by the news that a glamorous American film star has bought the local manor house. Miss Marple is confined to her chair after an accident but, when there is a vicious murder, she must unravel a web of lies, tragedy and danger.  

This classic whodunnit by the Queen of Crime has all the brilliant characters and twists and turns you would expect and a good dose of humour too! Come along and see if you can solve the crime before there are more murders…

“A satisfying blend of wit, drama and intrigue... a modern take on a crime classic... contemporary and fresh.”

THE UPBEAT BEATLES

The Upbeat Beatles are second to none - powerhouse vocals, precision harmonies and tight musicianship.

The guys have an easy, happy rapport with any crowd, giving them a reputation to be envied as the best in the business.

There isn’t a band to touch them - 8 bars of “Twist and Shout” and you will know why! No other band can perform this song like The Upbeat Beatles!

The show takes you through the Fab Four’s long and winding road from the early Cavern days through Beatlemania, America, Sergeant Pepper to Abbey Road, with narrative and full multi-media presentation.

If you love The Beatles you’ll love this show, and if you don’t love The Beatles you’ll love this show!