The forthcoming winter season sparkles with family-friendly fun at the Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Nottingham with a magical mix of music, dance, laughter, and a GIANT adventure of a pantomime.
The Chuckle Brothers, Benidorm’s Tony Maudsley and X Factor finalist Chico will star in this year’s star-studded family pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. Continuing the festive theme, Alisdair Malloy and his friends from Sinfonia Viva bring their annual Beanbag Music Club Christmas Prom, and the Nottingham Harmonic Choir return with their ever-popular Family Carol Concert.
Royal Northern Sinfonia present a double bill of festive music and movie favourites for families with Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf,narrated by CBeebies’ Pui Fan Lee, and Raymond Brigg’s The Snowman with live orchestra soundtrack.
Continuing the family theme into the New Year, Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra’s Family Concert, It Takes Two, celebrates great partnerships musical and otherwise, such as Batman and Robin, Wallace and Gromit, and Torvill and Dean. Plus, Nottinghamshire Scouts and Guides present their Gang Show 2017, full of musical numbers, dance routines, and comedy sketches.
Heart-warming, feel-good musicals promise to brighten up wintry days and nights, including Ghost The Musical, starring Sarah Harding and Andy Moss, and Alexandra Burke in an all-new, smash hit production of Sister Act.
Sunny Afternoon, an Olivier Award-winning new musical telling the captivating tale of how The Kinks rose to stardom, visits the venue for the first time this winter, as does a brand new spectacular version of the much-loved musical La Cage aux Folles.
Chilling drama for a winter’s night comes in the form of Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story The Woman in Black, dramatically brought to life in Stephen Mallatratt’s ingenious stage adaptation.
Putting the heat back into the cold season will be contemporary dance company Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, promising to bring their own potent blend of Afro-Caribbean rhythms and jazzy American modernism to Nottingham this winter.
For music fans, the venue will play host to big names including Jason Donovan, Kate Rusby, The Overtones, Katherine Jenkins, Black Stone Cherry, James, Michael Ball & Alfie Boe, The Human League and Mike & The Mechanics. Comedy duo Reeves & Mortimer return once more to the venue with their sell-out national tour.
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, led by inspirational conductor John Wilson, will showcase the rising stars of tomorrow while home-grown talent will also get a chance to shine with the Nottingham Harmonic Choir performing Handel’s Messiah, and Nottingham Music Service’s Christmas in the City concert featuring the Robin Hood Youth Orchestra.
The Royal Concert Hall’s Nottingham Classics Season continues through the winter months with many highlights including theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and the enormously popular Hallé Christmas Concert and Sunday Morning Piano Series concerts.
Fans of classical music will be delighted to see the return of The Sixteen this season, alongside the Johann Strauss Gala and Sinfonia Viva’s New Year’s Eve Classical Gala which this year will feature Nottingham’s own BBC Young Musician of the Year 2016, Sheku Kanneh-Mason. The venue will also host A Celebration of David Bowie, featuring Heroes and Low re-imagined by Philip Glass and performed by Army of Generals and members of the British Paraorchestra.
The venue’s Live At Lunch and Third Stage events continue throughout the season, providing a range of informal spoken word and music events on the Dress Circle foyer.
Other highlights for the winter season include The Bootleg Beatles, The Wonderful West End: A Christmas Gala performed by Anna O’Byrne, Jacqui Scott, David Thaxton and Scott Davies, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, That’ll Be The Day, and You Win Again, an all-live show which tells the story of The Bee Gees’ rise to stardom and features some of their greatest songs. Anton and Erin will make a welcome return to the venue this winter with their exciting new show, Swing Time.
For more information or to book tickets, visit www.trch.co.uk or call Box Office on 0115 989 5555.
