It’s a bumper month for family-friendly theatre productions and different reside performances, with every part from large musicals, ballets, diversifications of much-loved books, TV favourites and even Disney on Ice coming to South Wales within the coming weeks. Many of those happen in half time period, many are promoting out quick. Take a look and see if something takes your fancy.
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Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Magnificence
Wales Millennium Centre
Tuesday 31 January-Saturday 4 February
Age steering: 5+; 2 hours 20 together with an interval
From £18
Celebrating 10 years since its premiere at Sadlers Wells – when it grew to become the fastest-selling manufacturing within the firm’s historical past – Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Magnificence continues to enchant audiences all through the UK and throughout the globe. Enter a wondrous world of magical fairies and vampires, the place the timeless story of fine vs evil is turned upside-down, making a supernatural love story that even the passage of time itself can not hinder. Will Princess Aurora ever discover her real love once more?
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Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
Friday 10 February, 6.30pm
Ballet Theatre UK presents probably the most enchanting love tales of all time. When Belle’s father is imprisoned in a mysterious fortress, her try to rescue him sees her captured by the Beast, a grisly and fearsome monster. Little does she know that he’s a Prince cursed by a magical enchantress. The one means the Beast could grow to be human once more is that if he learns to like and be cherished in return. Set to a shocking classical rating this manufacturing will showcase new choreography by creative director, Christopher Moore, in addition to new units and costumes created particularly for this manufacturing.
Restricted availability; promoting quick.
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New Theatre, Cardiff
Tuesday 14 February-Saturday 4 March
Age steering 5+, working time 2 hours 35 together with interval
£18-£58
The texture-good smash-hit musical is again in Cardiff for 3 weeks – and it’s promoting quick with very restricted availability on some dates. Set on a Greek island paradise, Mamma Mia is a narrative of affection, friendship and identification, cleverly instructed via the timeless songs of ABBA. Sophie’s quest to find the daddy she’s by no means recognized brings her mom head to head with three males from her distant romantic previous on the eve of a marriage they’ll always remember.
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The Noise Subsequent Door: The Mysterious Mansion of Thriller
Memo Arts Centre, Barry
Saturday 18 February, 2pm
Age steering: 5+; 60 minutes with no interval
Adults £12, concessions £11, household of 4 £38
Take a tour of the world’s most bewildering constructing with comedy heavyweights The Noise Subsequent Door. Who is aware of what lurks within the curious corridors and weird boudoirs of this historical manor home? You do! What you say goes on this hour of anarchic leisure that’s enjoyable for actually everybody. Just a little bit spooky, somewhat bit silly and an entire lot of humorous.
The Noise Subsequent Door are thirteen-time sell-out veterans of The Edinburgh Fringe and have appeared on ‘The One Present’ (BBC One) and ‘Britain’s Received Expertise’ (ITV1). They’ve additionally appeared alongside the likes of Michael McIntyre, Katherine Ryan, Romesh Ranganathan and Harry Hill.
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Play Opera Dwell: Dinosaur Discoveries with Welsh Nationwide Opera
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
Sunday 19 February, 3pm; working time 1 hour 10, no interval
Adults £15, kids £7.50, household of 4 £30, household of 5 £35, below 2s lap ticket £2
Welsh Nationwide Opera current a family-friendly introduction to classical music, this tike with a dinosaur theme. The household present is interactive, entertaining and academic, as WNO presents some favorite items of music from stage and display screen. Set sail on the excessive seas with Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman; escape to the mountains with Grieg’s immediately recognisable Corridor of the Mountain King and stroll alongside dinosaurs with John Williams’s epic Jurassic Park Theme. Audiences also can stand up shut and private with Steve Pickett’s Dinosaur Rumpus, based mostly on Tony Mitton’s ever-popular kids’s ebook, Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus, that includes vivid video projections and unique narration by presenter Tom Redmond.
A variety of free actions, together with a treasure hunt, face portray and extra, can be found in Wales Millennium Centre’s lobby from 1pm.
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Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
Monday 20 February, 1.30pm and 4pm; Tuesday 21 February 11am and 1.30pm
£9.50
Age steering: 1-5; 45 minutes with no interval
Egg and Spoon is an ideal light introduction to the magic of theatre for toddlers and pre-schoolers. Youngsters should not anticipated to take a seat nonetheless; all performances are classed as Relaxed. An interactive romp via the seasons the place you come out and in of a magic circle and get to open all of the presents of nature. Percy and April will get audiences settled on comfy cushions and introduce you to Birdy, nonetheless hiding in his glowing egg. You’ll have to attend till Spring if you wish to see him so it’s time to start a hands-on journey via the 12 months. Audiences will run via the rain and the falling leaves and sleep below the snow until the solar wakes us up for the butterfly celebration.
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Memo Arts Centre, Barry
Monday 20, Tuesday 21, Wednesday 23 February, 9.30am, 11am, 1.45pm
£4, £13 for a household of 4
45 minutes; appropriate for below 5s
A forty five-minute interactive efficiency for below 5s. Barod! may have little ones singing new bi-lingual new songs, in an interactive present with a sprinkling of silliness that explores colors, numbers, sounds utilizing singing, dance and musical devices. Aisling and Helen are off to go to their good friend who loves rainbows. Are you able to assist them accumulate all the colors of the rainbow?
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Blackwood Miners’ Institute
Tuesday 21 February, 11am and 2pm
Adults £11, concessions £9, household of 4 £32
Age 3+; 50 minutes
Collect spherical for the Moon’s magical story a couple of faucet dancer he has been watching at evening. Marina Skippett creeps out of her home each evening to shuffle and stomp on the boardwalk to the sounds of the ocean. She will’t faucet dance at house any extra since her evil, tractor-sized Aunty banned it! However then, one moonlit evening, Marina meets a mysterious, watery boy swimming within the sea and her life is rarely the identical once more! Options puppets, reside music and faucet dancing in a present for all ages.
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Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
Wednesday 22 February, 1.30pm, Thursday 23 February 4.30pm
Wednesday 22 February 11am, Thursday 23 February 1.30pm
£9.50
Age steering 2-8; 60 minutes with no interval
A humorous, magical and musical journey that might be on tour within the new 12 months with a brand new forged Anni Dafydd and Gwern Phillips.
An interactive drama for youthful kids from acclaimed theatre firm Arad Goch. It is a full of life and musical drama, typically humorous and at different instances coping with the feelings of the kids with themes concerning friendship, working collectively and caring – and inspiring the kids to be artistic in their very own means.
Separate performances can be found in Welsh (appropriate for brand new Welsh audio system) and English with parts of British Signal Language.
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St David’s Corridor, Cardiff
Wednesday 22 February, 4.30pm, Thursday 23 February, 10.30am, 1.30pm, 3.30pm
Age steering 3+; working time 1 hour
Adults £16, kids £14
Based mostly on the much-loved ebook by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Zog is raring to win a golden star at Madam Dragon’s college, the place dragons be taught all of the issues that dragons have to know. Zog tries so very exhausting, maybe too exhausting, and he bumps, burns and roars his means via years one, two and three. Fortunately, the plucky Princess Pearl patches him up able to face his largest problem but…a duel with knight, Sir Gadabout the Nice. The smash-hit stage adaptation from Freckle Productions (the staff behind Zog and the Flying Docs and Stick Man) is again and guarantees to be larger, brighter and extra roar-some than ever earlier than. With full of life songs from Joe Stilgoe and directed by Emma Kilbey, this can be a magical manufacturing for all ages.
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Swansea Grand
Wednesday 22 February, 1.30pm and 4.30pm; Thursday 23 February 10.30am and 1.30pm
£15.50,
Age steering 3+; 60 minutes
Based mostly on the best-selling ebook by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, leap on board the broom with the witch and her cat in Tall Tales’ fun-filled adaptation of Room on the Broom.
The witch and her cat are travelling on their broomstick after they decide up some hitch-hikers – a pleasant canine, a lovely inexperienced hen and a frantic frog. However this broomstick’s not meant for 5 and – CRACK – it snaps in two… simply because the hungry dragon seems! Will there ever be room on the broom for everybody?
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Disney on Ice: Uncover the Magic
Cardiff Worldwide Area
Thursday 23-Sunday 26 February, 10.30am, 2.30pm and 6.30pm
Disney On Ice presents Uncover the Magic is an journey crammed with world-class skating, high-flying acrobatics and sudden stunts. Discover the colorful spirit realm of Coco, sail away with Moana, see Belle within the sky because the enchanted chandelier involves life, and sing together with Elsa. Be a part of the celebration and make magical recollections with Aladdin, Toy Story, The Little Mermaid and plenty of extra of your Disney associates, at Disney On Ice presents Uncover the Magic.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Thursday 23 February, Friday 10, Tuesday 14 and Saturday 18 March, 7.30pm
From £17
Welsh Nationwide Opera current this story of Cymru, coal and choral singing Set in a Nineteen Fifties Welsh Valleys’ group, Blaze of Glory! follows the fortunes of a small group of miners who embark upon a musical escapade by reforming their male voice choir to boost spirits following a mining catastrophe. Blaze of Glory! celebrates the land of track and the way group spirit can overcome adversity. Conventional Welsh harmonies mix with the a cappella sounds of the Nineteen Fifties, operetta, gospel and massive band as our intrepid band of gleemen Lindy hop their method to glory.
(No age steering provided however appropriate for households with older kids and faculty teams.)
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There and Again Once more – An Odyssey
Memo Arts Centre, Barry
Friday 24 February, 2pm
Adults £10, concessions £8, household of 4 £32
Age steering: 6+
A LIVE Cinema-Theatre present. Observe CBeebies’ Patrick Lynch as he makes use of a pioneering mixture of reside cinema and theatre to take you on an exciting experience throughout the magical world of historical Greece. With miniature units he directs the lights, digital camera and motion in entrance of your eyes to point out the well-known battles, floating islands, one-eyed giants and offended Gods that make up Ulysses’s 20 12 months wrestle to get again house. Using a number of cameras magnifies the table-top puppetry in widescreen right down to the smallest element, turning a storm-in-a-teacup into an Aegean tempest, laying out the basic fable hidden on this basic of world literature and proving that regardless of how far you roam, there’s no place like Homer.
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The Riverfront, Newport
Friday 24 February, 11.30am, 2.30pm, 4.30pm
£18
Operating time 65 minutes
When all of his associates go away, Norman Worth decides to seek out journey in Pontypandy and grow to be the star of a visiting circus. However with a tiger on the unfastened and defective lights, the journey quickly turns to hazard. Can Fireman Sam come to the rescue and save the circus? Be a part of Sam, Penny, Elvis, Station Officer Steele and Norman in an all singing, dancing, action-packed present.
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