Milton Keynes Theatre - New Season
What's on at Milton Keynes Theatre? Take a look at the guide - to book tickets go to www.atgtickets.com/miltonkeynes or contact the box office on 0844 871 7652
JANUARY
CIRCUS OF HORRORS – 13 JAN 2015
The
show that stormed into the finals of Britain’s
Got Talent and now a West End smash, is back to mark its 20th
Anniversary in spectacular style. The
Night of the Zombie is set in a decrepit and corpse
ridden London in 2020 and is performed by an almighty cast with a forked tongue
firmly in each cheek and the devil driver of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dr Haze & The
Interceptors from Hell.
ALL STAR WRESTLING – 15 JAN 2015
Top
stars from all corners of the universe will be appearing at this very special
event to face the very best of British wrestling personalities in this brand
new, action packed event! Look out for the future stars of WWE and some faces
from the past glory days of Saturday afternoon TV wrestling, as they join the
audience to celebrate this history making achievement. All Star is the best there
is, the best there was, and the best live shows ever.
ROY ORBISON & FRIENDS – 16 JAN 2015
If you
love great music, then this is the show for you as Barry Steele presents the critically acclaimed Roy Orbison and Friends. Backed by a fabulous band and big screen, this celebration
of the musical legacy
of Roy Orbison is simply unmissable. Add to the mix special friends celebrating the sounds of Elvis Presley and
Jerry Lee Lewis, and
you have yourself a spectacular fusion of good old Rock ‘n‘ Roll and contemporary musical genius all on one stage.
ABBA MANIA – 17 JAN 2015
Featuring
a special concert presentation, which celebrates the music of ABBA in a
respectful and enjoyable way, reviving special memories of when ABBA ruled the
airwaves. ABBA Mania brings
ABBA fans old and new a night not to be missed. If you’re looking for an excuse
to party, reminisce or simply be entertained by the best music ever, then ABBA Mania is for you! So dig out those
platforms, dust down those flares and thank ABBA for the music.
THE FULL MONTY – 19-24 JAN 2015
In 1997, a
British film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose,
took the world by storm! Now they’re back and this time they really have to go,
The
Full Monty...live on stage. Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar winning writer of
the film, has gone all the way on this adaptation that is getting standing ovations
every night. With songs from Tom Jones, this smash hit comes to Milton Keynes
direct from London’s West End.
THAT’LL BE THE DAY – 25 JAN 2015
It’s
party time again as the legendary That’ll
Be The Day, the nation’s favourite Rock ’n’
Roll variety show returns with another opportunity to see its latest
production! This hugely entertaining Rock ’n’ Roll spectacular features a
fantastic line up of knock-out hits from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, plus loads
more hilarious comedy! Prepare for an unforgettable night of nostalgia, laughs
and Rock ’n’ Roll!
AN EVENING WITH NOEL FIELDING - 29
JAN 2015
Noel Fielding (The Mighty Boosh, Never
Mind The Buzzcocks, Luxury Comedy) is embarking
on his first live tour in five years: An Evening With Noel Fielding. Expect a magical
mix of Noel’s unique brand of stand up comedy,
live
animation, music and some of Fielding’s best known TV characters (such as The
Moon and Fantasy Man).
THE CHICAGO BLUES BROTHERS – 30 JAN
2015
The Chicago Blues Brothers are back with
a brand new action-packed show to celebrate over 30 years of the Blues Brothers
phenomenon. Backed by the hottest 10
piece band around, the stars of the show
entertain
with classics from not only Jake and Elwood, but also Aretha Franklin, James
Brown and Cab Calloway! This non-stop revue is packed with over 2hrs of the
very best Blues, Motown and Soul music from both of The Blues Brothers movies
and plenty of laughs too.
THE GLEN MILLER ORCHESTRA – 31 JAN
2015
Now in
its 26th incredible year under the baton of Ray McVay, The Glenn Miller Orchestra continues to live up to its reputation as the world’s greatest big band!
In a show the whole family can enjoy, experience the excitement of this
incredible orchestra and the Jiving Lindy
Hoppers in a show that features the fabulous
harmonies
of the Moonlight Serenaders, the sublime vocals of Catherine
Sykes and Colin Anthony and the swinging jazz band, The Uptown
Hall Gang.
FEBRUARY
JERSEY BOYS – 3-14 FEB 2015
The
internationally acclaimed stage sensation Jersey Boys is touring the UK and
Ireland for the very first time! This smash hit musical won 55 major awards
worldwide, including the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Jersey
Boys tells the true life story of Frankie
Valli and the Four Seasons, four boys from the wrong side of the tracks,
who wrote their own songs, and sold 175 Million records worldwide. Jersey
Boys is a story full of heart, humour and ‘Sheer Musical Razzamatazz’ you will simply never forget.
MATTHEW BOURNE’S EDWARD SCISSORHANDS – 17-21 FEB 2015
Matthew Bourne’s magical dance production of Edward
Scissorhands has carved a place in the hearts of thousands. Based on
the classic Tim Burton motion picture, this touching and witty love story tells
the bittersweet tale of a boy left alone and unfinished in a strange world.
After global success with his inspired interpretations of Swan Lake, and Sleeping
Beauty, this new production is guaranteed to delight the whole family.
OMID DJALILI – IRANALAMADINGDONG – 22
FEB 2015
He’s
back on tour with a new show, following a sell-out four week West End residency
and a sold out season at the Edinburgh Festival. Omid was the winner of the Best Actor Award
for his lead performance in The Infidel at the Turin Film Festival. The
Infidel also picked up a Loaded LAFTA award for Funniest
Film and Omid was short listed for the Peter Sellers Award at the London
Evening Standard British Film Awards.
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER – 24-28 FEB 2015
This brand
new production of one of the most loved stories of all time is packed with
legendary hits from the Bee Gees including the classic Stayin Alive. The date is 1976, and Tony Manero, a young man with a
dead-end job, and an extraordinary ability to dance, has only one ambition in
life, to become Disco King.
MARCH
CHAS & DAVE – 1 MAR
2015
Chas
& Dave are great musicians and know how to give an audience a good time.
They have gained a cult audience of both young and old and due to public demand
they are about to be seen together on stage once more. Now celebrating their 50th
Anniversary, prepare to hear all their hits including Gertcha, The Sideboard Song (Got My Beer In The Sideboard Here), Snooker Loopy, Ain’t No
Pleasing You, Rabbit and many more!
PSYCHIC SALLY: ON THE
ROAD – 2 MAR 2015
World-renowned
psychic and star of TV’s Psychic Sally On the Road, Sally Morgan returns with her sensational live
show. An ordinary
woman with an extraordinary gift, she believes that she has been able to
communicate with people beyond the grave. This
is a fantastic and unique evening out not to be
missed. Book your tickets now to see this phenomenal psychic in action!
JIMMY CARR – FUNNY
BUSINESS – 3 MAR 2015
Jimmy’s
been described as ‘the hardest working man in
comedy’. Which, let’s face facts, is not that impressive. It’s like being the ‘Tallest Dwarf’ or the ‘Healthiest Glaswegian’.
Really not that big a deal. Funny Business is Jimmy’s brand new stand up show.
Come for the witty and incisive musings on the
human condition; stay for the knob gags.
THE HOLLIES – 4 MAR 2015
There
is no doubt The Hollies helped shape
the world of Pop and Rock as we know it. With Ivor Novello Awards and induction
into the prestigious American Rock ’n’ Roll Hall Of Fame, they continue to perform
with pride and passion around the world. No support act is needed as The Hollies perform classics including The Air That I
Breathe, Just One Look, He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother and many more of their hits in a brilliant performance.
SING-A-LONG-A-SOUND OF
MUSIC – 5 MAR 2015
The
smash-hit musical show returns to the UK in celebration of the movie’s 50th
anniversary. Yes, the original Sing-a-long-a is back, giving the movie a
birthday party to remember! Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music is a screening of the Julie Andrews film musical in glorious, full-screen technicolor, with a host and free
fun pack and subtitles so that everyone can sing along. The audience is the
star of this interactive show - at Sing-a-long-a there are no rules!
OCTONAUTS AND THE DEEP SEA VOLCANO
ADVENTURE – 7-8 MAR 2015
Visit
strange new worlds full of mysteries to unravel, with surprises around every
corner this action packed interactive show features music and all your
favourite characters live on stage for the very first time!
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD – 10 – 14 MAR
2015
Set in the Deep South, Harper
Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel sees
racial injustice envelop a small-town community. Through courage and compassion, lawyer
Atticus Finch seeks the truth, and his feisty daughter, Scout - a young girl on
the cusp of adulthood - brings new hope to a neighbourhood in turmoil. This utterly enchanting and enthralling
production from London’s award-winning Regent’s
Park Theatre captures the warmth
and poignancy of this best-loved classic with genuine heart and emotional
depth. A story as moving and magical as you could ever hope to find.
THE BOOTLEG BEATLES – 15 MAR 2015
Re-live
the sights and sounds of the 60s as the world’s premier Beatles band returns
with their spectacular multi-media stage production featuring all the classic
Beatles hits. Using film footage and, ‘with a little help from’ their regular
brass and string ensemble, the show traces the history of the Fab Four in what
has now become one of the ‘not to miss’ annual traditions of the season’s
calendar.
ANTON & ERIN – THAT’S
ENTERTAINMENT – 16 MAR 2015
A
dazzling new production for 2015 featuring sensational choreography, sassy
tunes and sparkling costumes in a wonderful show of music, song and dance. Join
the UK’s favourite dance couple as they combine the sophisticated elegance of
their quick step, foxtrot, tango and waltz with the showbiz razzmatazz of hits
and steps from stage and screen.
WNO
CHORUS! - WED
18 MAR 2015
Chorus! Is a fully staged extravaganza of opera’s greatest
moments, which puts the exceptional WNO Chorus centre stage with soprano Lesley Garrett.
THE MAGIC FLUTE – THU 19 & FRI 20 MAR 2015
The Magic
Flute combines Mozart’s sublime music with Cooke’s
surreal staging, to create an irrepressibly entertaining evening.
HANSEL & GRETEL – SAT 21 MAR 2015
Richard Jones’ endlessly
inventive production of Hansel & Gretel the opera casts
a magical spell over audiences.
COUNT ARTHUR STRONG – SOMEBODY UP
THERE LICKS ME – 22 MAR 2015
Fresh
from donkey’s years on his award-winning BBC Radio 4 series and the huge
success of his BBC2 TV show, Count Arthur
Strong gets back to doing what he does best. This show.
In Somebody Up There Licks Me he’ll be doing all sorts of
wonderful things for you to sit there staring at as you quietly suck your
Maltesers and don’t
get up
to go to the toilet, applauding loudly at the appropriate moments. You’ll
laugh, cry and the other one.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK – 23-28 MAR 2015
Adapted by
Stephen Mallatratt, everybody in theatre can hear you scream! Unanimously
acclaimed by critics, The Woman in Black combines the
power and intensity of live theatre with a cinematic quality inspired by the
world of film noir. Now celebrating its 25th Year in the West End,
over 7 Million people have lived to tell the tale of one of the most chilling
and successful theatre events ever staged.
PAUL CARRACK – RAIN OR SHINE – 29 MAR
2015
Legendary
Sheffield-born singer, songwriter and former frontman of Ace, Squeeze and Mike
& The Mechanics returns to the road following his widely acclaimed recent
album release, Rain or Shine, with a mix of new original songs and classic tracks. With a back catalogue
of hits to his name including How
Long, Tempted and The Living Years, Paul’s marvellously soulful
voice is known to millions around the world.
APRIL
THE PRODUCERS – 30 MAR – 4 APR 2015
Based on Mel Brooks’ much loved Academy Award-winning movie, The Producers is the hilarious musical comedy that has taken
Broadway and the West End by storm, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards
and 3 Olivier Awards. Impoverished by a
string of flops, New York producer Max Bialystock recruits timid accountant Leo
Bloom to help him pull off Broadway’s greatest scam. They aim to produce the
worst show ever and run away with millions, but they learn that show business
can kick you in the teeth.
Featuring the all-time classic Springtime For Hitler and
starring award-winning comedian Jason
Manford and TV’s Louie
Spence, The Producers is one of the
funniest Broadway musicals of all time.
ALAN CARR – YAP, YAP, YAP! – 5 APR
2015
No
stranger to yap, Alan Carr will be yapping his way around the UK and Ireland with his brand new
stand up show Yap, Yap, Yap! The BAFTA and British Comedy
Award-winning comedian, author and chat show supremo returns to his stand up
roots with his hilarious take on life. Yap it up!
JEEVES & WOOSTER – 7 – 11 APR 2015
Join Robert Webb (Peep Show, That Mitchell
& Webb Look) as the effervescent, aristocratic
fool Bertie Wooster in this hilarious new production. Layering joy on joy, joke
on joke, Perfect Nonsense is a delightful evening of theatrical absurdity featuring P. G.
Wodehouse’s iconic double act. When a
country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, Bertie Wooster is unwittingly
called on to play matchmaker, but also to steal a silver cow creamer from
Totleigh Towers. Naturally, the ever dependable Jeeves is there to prevent
Bertie from making a fool of himself in front of a cast of Wodehouse’s finest
characters.
SOLID SILVER 60s SHOW – 12 APR 2015
Celebrating
30 years of the UK’s original and premier 60s show with the most sensational
line-up yet. Headlining - and back in
the UK for the first time since 1999 - is Billy J
Kramer, with the original voice of The Searchers, Mike Pender as well as Chris Farlowe and PP Arnold all backed by The New Amen Corner. Plus very special guests The Merseybeats are back to round off this 30th
birthday bash.
DANCE TIL DAWN – 13 – 18 APR 2015
Strictly Come Dancing favourites Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace are back with Dance ’Til Dawn! After wowing audiences with Midnight Tango, the dazzling duo return in a sensational
dance show straight from the Golden Age of Hollywood. In 1940s LA, a romance unfolds between a
beautiful starlet and her handsome lover. Dance
’Til Dawn will transport you to a time of
elegance with stunning sets, a live band, world class
dancers
and Vincent and Flavia themselves with their flawless
footwork and spellbinding choreography.
Dance ’Til Dawn is a classic love story that
brings vintage Hollywood glamour to the present. This unforgettable evening of
timeless sophistication and breathtaking dance is a must see.
SING-A-LONG-A FROZEN – 19 APR 2015
Disney’s
Frozen gets the full
Sing-a-long-a treatment! Who hasn’t been singing Let It Go and
wanting
to dress up as Elsa? Join in the experience with a screening of the film with
lyrics on screen
and
sing along with Elsa and Anna. Introduced by a live host who will show you how
to use your interactive fun pack and judge the fancy dress competition. www.singalonga.net
LORD OF THE DANCE – DANGEROUS GAMES –
21 – 26 APR 2015
Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games - a spectacular new staging of the traditional
masterpiece - will return to Milton Keynes as part of the nationwide tour. With all the visceral precision and thrills
of the original, Lord of the
Dance: Dangerous Games features new
staging, new costumes and choreography. With 40 of the world’s most outstanding
young performers directed by Michael Flatley, and new music by composer Gerard Fahy,
this latest iteration combines the best of tradition with all the excitement of
new music and dance.
NORTHERN BALLET – WUTHERING HEIGHTS –
28 APR – 2 MAY 2015
Immerse
yourself in Cathy and Heathcliff’s turbulent love affair as the ‘best dance
actors in the world’ capture the spirit of Wuthering
Heights and the untamed beauty of the Yorkshire Moors. Passionate and obsessive, Cathy and
Heathcliff’s love is as unruly and dangerous as the Moors that surround them.
As children they are inseparable, but over time their childish affection
deepens into an overwhelming and devastating love.
MAY
NORTHERN BALLET – ELVES & THE
SHOEMAKER – 1 MAY 2015
Northern Ballet presents their latest ballet for
children, Elves & the Shoemaker. A poor and kind-hearted
shoemaker receives some much-needed help when his last piece of leather is
transformed into the most magnificent pair of shoes overnight. He discovers
that not only are the shoes beautiful; they are also
magical.
Who is the mysterious maker of these marvellous shoes?
THE KING’S SPEECH – 5 – 9 MAY 2015
1936: King Edward VIII has abdicated for the love of Wallis Simpson. Bertie,
his brother, is crowned King George VI of England. At an office in Harley Street, London, Bertie
and his wife Elizabeth (the future
much-loved Queen Mother) are meeting maverick Australian speech therapist and
failed actor, Lionel Logue. With the
support of his wife, Bertie and Logue embark on an extraordinary journey to
overcome his stammer and deliver the now iconic speech broadcast across the
globe to inspire his people. As the
world stood against the Nazi threat, The King’s Speech is
the true and heart-warming story of a greatly loved royal family who took this
nation through its darkest hour.
Starring Jason Donovan (Festen, Sweeney Todd) as Lionel Logue and Raymond Coulthard (Mr Selfridge, Hotel Babylon) as King George VI.
BARNUM – 12-16 MAY 2015
This
exhilarating musical follows the irrepressible imagination and dreams of
Phineas T Barnum portrayed by Brian
Conley, America’s Greatest Showman, who lit up the World with colour,
warmth and the excitement of his very own imagination.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC – 26 MAY – 6 JUN
2015
One of the greatest musicals of all time returns to the stage in a
magnificent new production to enchant and enthral the young and the young at
heart. Based on Baroness Maria von
Trapp’s 1949 autobiography, this
wonderfully lavish new staging of The Sound of Music tells
the true story of the world-famous singing family, from their romantic beginnings
and search for happiness, to their thrilling escape to freedom as their beloved
Austria becomes part of the Third Reich at the start of WWII.
JUNE
DEAD SIMPLE – 8 – 13 JUN 2015
Following
the critically acclaimed hit stage production of Peter James’ The Perfect Murder, the best-selling work of the No.1 novelist returns to the stage with
the adaptation of his most famous and popular book to date - Dead Simple.
Michael
Harrison thinks he has it all; great career, good friends and a beautiful
fiancée. But when his stag night prank goes horribly wrong, Michael finds
himself alone and staring death in the face.
As time runs out and the terror grows, Detective Superintendent Roy
Grace tries to solve his mysterious disappearance, but begins to fear that
Michael will never be found in time.
MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT – 15-20 JUN
2015
Direct from
3 years of the West End, and directed by Christopher Luscombe, Spamalot
‘Proves that the British sense of humour is alive and well’. The Multi-award
winning comedy comes to Milton Keynes after recently being voted for ‘Funniest
Musical in Britain’.
Spamalot is a kind-of-new musical with a book by Eric Idle and an entirely new
score for the new production (well, almost), created by Eric Idle and John du
Prez.
AUGUST
SHREK THE MUSICAL – 18 AUG-6 SEP 2015
Direct from
the West End and larger than life! Based on the award-winning DreamWorks
animation film, Shrek the Musical is this year’s must-see how for all the
family. Join our unlikely hero and his loyal steed Donkey as they embark on a quest
to rescue the beautiful (if a little temperamental) Princess Fiona from a
love-sick dragon. Add the diminutive Lord Farquaad and a gang of fairytale
misfits, and you’ve got the biggest and brightest musical around! Join the
adventure.
