Issued April
2008
Sing-a-long-a Joseph
Any Dream
Will Do…… Close Every Door…...
Go Go Go Joseph…
Many of us performed in it at school, hoards
of us clambered for tickets to see the stage show and now many of
us will get the chance to Sing-a-long to the filmed version with
Donny Osmond at Sing-a-long-a Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour
Dreamcoat, when it comes to The Lights on Saturday 3 May.
This is the new show from the producers of
Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music, which began as a cult spectacular in
1999 and has now grown into an international phenomena. It
has all the elements of a sing-a-long-a spectacular, including the
fancy dress competition (the audience always dress to thrill), and
free Magic Moment goody bags for all, with additional props to
wear, wave, and use to reflect the lyrics of the songs.
The original show was written by Tim Rice and
Andrew Lloyd-Webber in 1968 – a mere four years after The Sound of
Music - as a 20 minute entertainment for an end-of-term concert at
Colet Court School in London. The film version opens as an
old-fashioned school play in which the main parts are played by the
teachers. The action then moves seamlessly into an
inspirational world of magical colour as the story unfolds.
It charts Joseph’s journey from when he is left for dead by his
jealous brothers to arriving in ancient Egypt at Potiphar’s Court
and meeting Potiphar’s temptress wife.
Tickets are available for both a matinee and
evening performance from the Box Office on 01264 368368 or on-line
at http://www.thelights.org.uk/
Issued by Teresa Bradley, Marketing
Manager The Lights
Martin Simpson
By the age of 12, Martin Simpson was playing guitar, by 13 banjo
and at 14 he made his first paid appearance. 35 years on he
plays the British folk club circuit as eagerly as the grandest
music rooms that the world of music can offer and is now widely
acknowledged as one of the finest acoustic and slide guitar players
in the world.
On Thursday 24 April Martin will be appearing at The Lights
performing his interpretations of traditional songs, masterpieces
of storytelling.
Back in 1975 singer Barbara Dickson recommended Martin to Bill
Leader who went to see Martin perform. It led to Martin's
first solo album, Golden Vanity, (1976) for Bill Leader's Trailer
label. Word got out quickly. Within the year, he was
supporting Steeleye Span and, by 1977, he was accompanying that
magisterial song-interpreter, June Tabor, whose previous principal
guitar accompanist had been Nic Jones, no easy size 10s to fill.
Much of Martin's music reflects the places where he has lived. Time
spent in England and the United States underpins his art, yet years
ago he learned to apply the artistry of experience in different
contexts. Martin's playing deploys a control of pace and
dynamics that touches the heart, like the best music, irrespective
of whether the listener has a bit of Lincolnshire, Mississippi or
Ganges beneath their manicured or careworn nails.
In early 2004, seasoned Simpson-watchers noted him reach
unsuspected artistic heights with new levels of intensity and
economy. He put it down, in part, to taking delivery of a new
banjo from Ron Saul and rediscovering the place of the banjo in his
guitar-playing.
Throughout his career Martin Simpson has been a foremost
exponent and interpreter of both traditional and world
music. With a clutch of BBC Folk Awards, including Best
Musician in 2002 and 2004, Simpson continues to be a pioneer of the
acoustic world today.
Tickets are available from the Box Office on
01264 368368 or online http://www.thelights.org.uk/
Katzenjammer
Two fantastic pianists + one piano + a
big screen = a great night out at The
Lights
With Four Hands on One Piano, Katzenjammer are
a piano duo with a difference. Both classically trained pianists
and comic song-writers, Kevin Farrell and Steven Worbey have
developed their own unique, virtuosic and acrobatic style of
performing that can only be described as spectacular, very funny
and highly entertaining.
With a modern twist on a traditional genre,
they dazzle with their own arrangements of Liszt, inspired by Tom
& Jerry, Tchaikovsky, which goes off with a bang, and they will
have you laughing as they marry together your favourite classics
with your top-10 pub tunes! With the resulting tangle of
hands and arms, the keyboard is projected onto a large screen so
that the mesmerising gymnastic display of their playing can be
marvelled at.
Katzenjammer’s fast fingers and enthusiasm for
live music has seen them perform to great critical acclaim at
prestigious venues such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
The Royal Festival Hall in London and the King’s Theatre
Edinburgh.