Cast:
Olivie Cooke, Bill Nighy, Douglas Booth, Adam Brown, Daniel Mays, Eddie Marsan, Amelia Crouch, Adam Brown, Morgan Watkins, Clive Brunt
Director:
Juan Carlos Medina
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Alma Cogan Blue Plaque To Be Unveiled In Worthing
A Blue Plaque to Alma Cogan will be unveiled at her old home in Worthing on Friday 22nd September at 2pm. Alma was one of the most popular personalities to emerge during the 1950s and she was reputed to be the highest paid female star in Britain during that era. She had more hits in the 1950s than any other female singer – 18 in total and in the 1960s topped the charts in Japan, Sweden and Israel as well as having hits in India, Germany, Denmark and Norway.
Alma’s family lived in Worthing in the 1940s -and while living at Lansdowne Road, Alma, aged just 16 yrs, successfully auditioned in 1948 for the chorus of High Button Shoes, which ran for almost a year at the London Hippodrome. In 1959, at the height of her fame she returned to Worthing to top the bill in a Sunday concert at the Pier Pavilion and that December she appeared in the Connaught Theatre pantomime, Goldilocks And The Three Bears.
Alma sadly died of ovarian cancer in October 1966 aged just 34.
The plaque has been financed by the long-time fans of Alma, in conjunction with the Worthing Society, and Lionel Blair, a close friend of Alma’s has kindly agreed to unveil the plaque.
Details of the ceremony are as follows:
UNVEILING OF PLAQUE TO ALMA COGAN
Friday 22nd September at 2pm
29, Lansdowne Road,
Worthing,
BN11 4NF
Plaque to be unveiled by Lionel Blair
Order of ceremony:
1) Geoff Bowden – Welcome and Brief Summary of Alma’s Career
2) Susan Belton, Chair of The Worthing Society on the Blue Plaque Trail
3) The Mayor Of Worthing, Cllr Alex Harman
4) Lionel Blair
A Day By The Sea at Southwark Playhouse
No, not the British Music Hall Society’s Day By The Sea but a revival of a play by N.C. Hunter originally staged in 1953 with John Gielgud, Sybil Thorndike and Ralph Richardson in the cast.
A Day by the Sea is a rueful comedy. A 40-year-old diplomat, obsessed by his work, makes a brief visit to his mother in the family home in Dorset, only to be confronted with not one but two people who cause him to re-think his life.. England in 1953 – the Second World War a recent memory, and clouds of uncertainty hanging over the future, but in Dorset country life is pleasant, or always seemed to be. Were those days on the beach always so sunny? Could the future be as fine?
Dan Leno in Limehouse Golem
The music hall star Dan Leno (played by Douglas Booth) is featured as a character in the new film Limehouse Golem, now on general release.
Set on the unforgiving, squalid streets of Victorian London in 1880, our tale begins in the baroque, grandiose music hall where the capital’s most renowned performer Dan Leno (Douglas Booth) takes to the stage. The whimsical thespian performs a monologue, informing his dedicated audience of the ghastly fate of a young woman who had once adorned this very stage, his dear friend Elizabeth Cree (Olivia Cooke); for the beguiling songstress is facing up to her forthcoming death by hanging, having been accused of murdering her husband John Cree (Sam Reid). Lizzie’s death seems inevitable, until Detective Inspector John Kildare (Bill Nighy) is assigned to the case of the Limehouse Golem – a nefarious, calculating serial killer, murdering innocent, unconnected victims, leaving behind barely identifiable corpses – and his distinctive signature in blood. All is not what it seems and everyone is a suspect and everyone has a secret.
Presentation To Jimmy Cricket
At St. Stephen’s Church in Blackpool on Sunday 3rd September, there will be a service of celebration and thanksgiving with the Catholic Stage Guild (North) at which there will be a special presentation made to comedian jimmy Cricket.
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Brighton Hippodrome Talk and Tours
BRIGHTON HIPPODROME: HERITAGE AND PROSPECT
Saturday 9 September 2017
The Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF
Exhibition: 13:45-17:00
Talk at 14:00 and 15:15
Free admission but pre-booking required.
To book, visit ourhippodrome.org.uk/events
A lavishly illustrated talk by David Fisher with exhibition of Hippodrome memorabilia between 13:45 and 17:00 while the talk if not in progress.
• Many people have asked if they can look inside the Hippodrome. Unfortunately that is not possible but this is the next best thing.
• The talk will show, in over 200 images, the history of this endangered Grade II* listed gem—the finest unused theatre in the country—through its days as a skating rink, circus, variety theatre, bingo hall and heritage at risk. It will include pictures and information not previously known or revealed.
• The potential and plans for its future will also be explained.
BRIGHTON HIPPODROME: THE STREET VIEW
Sunday 10 September 2017
Tours at 11:00, 14:00 and 15:00.
Meet at corner of Boyce’s Street and Middle Street, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, BN1 1AL
Free admission but pre-booking required
To book, visit ourhippodrome.org.uk/events
David Fisher will lead a 30 minute ‘tour’ of the outside of the Hippodrome with images of the interior.
• The interior by Frank Matcham is the real reason for the Hippodrome’s unique importance as the finest unused theatre in the country. However, with the aid of photographs and plans, this ‘tour’ from the outside will explain the conservation issues, why it is so important that such a derelict building should be brought back to life and how this could be done.
Horne A’Plenty at the White Bear
From the team who gave you the West End and touring hit Round The Horne…Revisited, comes Horne A’Plenty with scripts by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke. the show plays at the White Bear theatre pub, 138, Kennington Park Road, Kennington, London, SE11 4DJ from 29th August – 9th September at 7.30pm with matinees on Saturdays 2nd and 9th September at 2.30pm.
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September Song Gala Concert
Belmont Productions present September Song – a delightful afternoon of music from light opera, musical theatre and popular piano pieces – on Tuesday 12th September at 2pm in the Great Hall, Hall Place, Bourne Road, Bexley, Kent.
Featuring James Hay, Principal Tenor with Kentish Opera and BBC broadcasts and recitalist and Carol Anne Wells, International Concert Pianist and regular artist at Hall Place.
Special Guest: Marilyn Hill Smith, Principal Soprano with ENO, Carl Rosa Opera and regular guest on BBC’s Friday Night Is Music Night.
Tickets: £15. Order your tickets by sending a SAE to September Song, Pemberley, 17, Unicorn Walk, Saxton Park, Stone Village, Kent, DA9 9PU. Cheques to be made payable to Belmont Productions.
