We’re so fortunate in Cardiff and the encompassing areas to have such nice theatres, exhibiting every thing from massive scale musicals to small unbiased performances and wonderful novice firms. Huge funds manufacturing highlights this summer season embrace Disney’s The Lion King and College of Rock at Wales Millennium Centre (on this week) whereas on the different finish of the size there’s a welcome return for the fantastic Cardiff Open Air Theatre Pageant at Sophia Gardens, with Go Theatre’s manufacturing of Disney’s Excessive College Musical, whereas the Sherman Theatre’s youth theatre current Treasure Island. The hilariously humorous play The Present That Goes Improper can be at Wales Millennium Centre, there’s a stage adaptation of David Walliams’ much-loved e-book Gangsta Granny on the New Theatre, Horrible Histories is bringing its Horrible Tudors present to Blackwood and Barry, the Paw Patrol pups shall be at Cardiff Motorpoint Enviornment, plus Dinosaur World Reside shall be bringing its lifelike creatures to Newport and Cardiff.
For the youngest theatre goers, there’s TV faves In The Night time Backyard on the New Theatre, Tiddler and Different Tall Tales on the Sherman Theatre and the Tiddly Promenade at St David’s Corridor (I adored these when my kids had been small).
Pluss, as you’ll see beneath, masses extra theatre and different stay reveals for all ages. Because the title of this put up suggests, these are family-friendly reveals, aimed toward totally different age teams, as much as about 13/14. (There’s additionally loads of ‘grown up’ performances you could like to move alongside to with out the youngsters. Examine the related web sites for listings.)
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Monday 16-Saturday 21 Could
From £19.50
Age steerage 8+, no below 2s
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West Finish and Broadway hit musical College of Roc is the worldwide hit musical based mostly on the enduring film starring Jack Black. Wannabe rock star Dewey Finn is forged out by his dive-bar bandmates and finds himself in determined want of money. Posing as an alternative music instructor at an elite prep faculty, he exposes his college students to the rock gods he idolises, remodeling them right into a mind-blowing rock band.
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Lovely – The Carole King Musical
New Theatre, Cardiff
Tuesday 24-Saturday 28 Could
Age steerage: 10+
£23.50-£50.50
A brand new manufacturing of the award successful West Finish and Broadway present, Lovely – The Carole King Musical, involves the New Theatre Cardiff. Lengthy earlier than she was Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, she was an peculiar woman with a unprecedented expertise. Lovely tells the inspiring true story of King’s outstanding rise to stardom, from being a part of a success song-writing crew along with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and finest associates Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to changing into probably the most profitable solo acts in widespread music historical past.
Alongside the way in which, she wrote the soundtrack to a technology, with numerous classics comparable to (You Make Me Really feel Like) A Pure Girl, Take Good Care of My Child, You’ve Bought a Buddy, So Far Away, It May as Properly Rain Till September, Up on the Roof, and The Locomotion.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Monday 23-Saturday 28 Could
From £19
Age steerage 5+, no below 2s
Journey again to the glamour of Hollywood in the course of the roaring 20’s. Silent film star Don Lockwood has all of it, a string of hit movies and a studio-engineered romance with probably the most lovely actress on the town.
What Don doesn’t know is that the silver display screen is about to search out its voice, and an opportunity assembly with a proficient younger refrain woman set to steal his coronary heart guarantees to vary each Don, and Hollywood, eternally.
Excessive-energy choreography and opulent set design (together with over 14,000 litres of water on stage each evening) mix with the appeal, romance and wit of one of many world’s best- cherished movies. Singin’ within the Rain options the wonderful MGM rating together with Good Morning, Make ‘em Giggle, Moses Supposes and the legendary Singin’ within the Rain.
Sam Lips, Charlotte Gooch, and Jenny Gayner, together with Strictly’s Kevin Clifton as ‘Cosmo Brown’, star in Jonathan Church’s critically acclaimed manufacturing of Singin’ within the Rain.
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Horrible Histories: Horrible Tudors
Blackwood Miners’ Institute
Friday 27 Could, 1.30pm and 6.30pm
£14.25 adults, £11.25 concessions
From the horrible Henries to the tip of evil Elizabeth, hear the legends (and the lies!) in regards to the torturing Tudors. Discover out the destiny of Henry’s headless wives and his punch up with the Pope. Meet Bloody Mary and see Ed fall useless in his mattress. Survive the Spanish Armada as they launch their assault. It’s historical past with the nasty bits left in.
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The Black Spider – Welsh Nationwide Opera Youth Opera
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 Could
£15
Following the large success of Brundibar (2019), WNO’s Youth Opera teams as soon as once more be part of forces for a full scale efficiency.
The Black Spider is a creepy, comedian story that takes us from the current day again to the Center Ages. We revisit historical Poland, the place a mysterious inexperienced man presents to guard a village from their evil landlord in change for the attractive Christina’s hand in marriage. When she breaks her promise and weds her real love as a substitute, the village is cursed with a plague from a spider that crawls out of her hand.
Christina battles to avoid wasting her folks and ultimately buries the spider outdoors the church to finish the catastrophe. Nevertheless, centuries later amid excavations on the church, archaeologists are hit by an unexplained virus…
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Monday 30 Could-Saturday 4 June
From £18.50
Age steerage 13+
Meet Jenna, a waitress and professional pie-maker who desires of some happiness in her life. When a scorching new physician arrives on the town, life will get difficult. With the help of her workmates Becky and Daybreak, Jenna overcomes the challenges she faces and finds that laughter, love and friendship can present the proper recipe for happiness. Chelsea Halfpenny (9 to five, BBC’s Casualty, ITV’s Emmerdale) stars as Jenna within the hit musical comedy Waitress, which is dropped at life by a ground-breaking, female-led artistic crew.
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New Theatre, Cardiff
Monday 30 Could-Saturday 4 June
£18-£42
Age steerage: 10+
Following two critically acclaimed excursions and a West Finish run, Footloose is again and higher than ever starring Jake Quickenden (Dancing on Ice winner, Hollyoaks) as loveable cowboy Willard and the legendary Darren Day.
Metropolis boy Ren thinks life is dangerous sufficient when he’s compelled to maneuver to a rural backwater in America. However his world involves a standstill when he arrives at Bomont to search out dancing and rock music are banned. Taking issues into his personal palms, quickly Ren has all hell breaking free and the entire city on its ft.
Based mostly on the Eighties display screen sensation which took the world by storm, Footloose sizzles with spirit, enjoyable and the very best in UK musical expertise. With leading edge trendy choreography, you’ll take pleasure in basic 80s hits together with Holding Out for a Hero, Virtually Paradise, Let’s Hear It For The Boy and naturally the unforgettable title monitor Footloose.
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Blackwood Miners’ Institute
Monday 30 Could, 2pm
£11/£9/£17.50
Age steerage: 2+
Molly and Bingo the pet are having a celebration and, better of all, you’re invited!
There’ll be a terrific treasure hunt, sensational sing-along songs and plenty of incredible video games to play, together with Molly’s favorite sport, I Spy With My Little Eye!
So put in your social gathering garments and are available be part of a magical day of enjoyable and laughter. It’s going to be the very best social gathering ever! After the 60-minute present, there’s an opportunity for kids to satisfy Bingo and the birthday woman.
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JUNE
Memo Arts Centre, Barry
Saturday 11 June
£12, £10 concessions, £38 household of 4
It’s a busy 12 months for the Queen with a lot of essential occasions to attend. However catastrophe has struck the palace as Her Majesty’s knickers have been nicked – name the royal guard!
In the meantime, slightly woman is questioning what knickers Her Majesty will select to put on on a college go to. Will they be her ‘at residence’ knickers – adorned with corgis – or her ‘backyard social gathering’ knickers, or maybe her woolly Balmoral ones…?
TaleGate Theatre Productions, producers of Father Christmas Wants A Wee! and The Large’s Lavatory Roll deliver you this regal kids’s musical stuffed with songs, silliness and a corgi or two.
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New Theatre, Cardiff
Monday 20-Saturday 25 June
£19-£58
Age steerage: 13+
Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the Nineteen Twenties, Chicago is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to stroll out on her. Determined to keep away from conviction, she dupes the general public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago’s slickest felony lawyer to rework her malicious crime right into a barrage of sensational headlines.
TV persona Gemma ‘The GC’ Collins (The Solely Approach is Essex), stars as Matron ‘Mama’ Morton, Coronation Road’s Faye Brookes is Roxie Hart, West Finish and TV star Lee Mead is as Billy Flynn and West Finish star Djalenga Scott is Velma Kelly.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Monday 13-Saturday 18 June
£15.50-£47
Age steerage: 8+
Mischief’s multi award-winning worldwide smash hit comedy The Play That Goes Improper was referred to as “The funniest present we’ve seen! If you may get a ticket, go!” by TV duo Ant and Dec. Now in its seventh 12 months, it follows the Cornley Drama Society as they placed on a Nineteen Twenties homicide thriller. However because the title suggests, every thing that may go fallacious… does. Because the accident susceptible thesps battle on towards all the chances to achieve their ultimate curtain name, hilarious outcomes ensue.
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The Riverfront, Newport
Saturday 18 June, 1.30pm and 4.30pm
Adults £17.50, concessions £15.25, household of 4 £53
A new authentic comedy by Terry Deary (writer of Horrible Histories). Three actors carry out over 100 roles in as many minutes of fact-based, fast-paced enjoyable.
Mr Pimm, a Victorian faculty instructor, battles towards all odds to show his pesky pupils a factor or two with hilarious penalties within the quest to find, ‘can the previous actually inform the longer term?’ Stuffed with surprising highs and lows, fast costume modifications and sharp wit, take pleasure in these twisted tales of occasions passed by in a single wild whirlwind that can depart you rolling round with laughter!
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JULY
Memo Arts Centre, Barry
Saturday 2 July
£10 per group (as much as 6 folks per group), features a useful resource pack
Age steerage: created for ages 4-12, however all of the household are welcome to hitch in
An interactive outside thriller journey for households. Welcome to the Division of Unusual Occasions. As a brand new recruit, you’re thrown within the deep finish with troubling information {that a} small city in Wales is affected by a catastrophic, full lack of color. One 12 months in the past one thing stole all the color and nothing has been the identical since. Are you able to assist remedy the Curious Case of Aberlliw?
You’ll obtain video updates and duties to finish by way of an app as you journey across the Memo and Gladstone Gardens.
E-book a web-based begin time from 10am-4.30pm. Welsh language periods out there. All periods are BSL interpreted and all movies on the app are captioned. The path is accessible for prams, buggies and wheelchairs.
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Milkshake! Reside – Milkshake Monkey’s Musical
The Riverfront, Newport
Saturday 2 July, 11.30am and a couple of.30pm
Tickets £18, household of 4 £70
Milkshake Monkey is happy to be placing on a spectacular new musical. However when stage fright hits, his favorite Milkshake associates come to assist, creating probably the most dazzling present you’ve got ever seen. Be a part of this incredible manufacturing as you be taught the interactive songs and dances together with your favorite Milkshake associates, and watch because the music, the lights, the costumes and stage come collectively. Be part of Paddington, Daisy & Ollie, Milo, Noddy, Pip & Posy, Blues Clues & You and naturally Milkshake Monkey, alongside two Milkshake presenters, for a present which has loads of laughter, viewers interplay and can get everybody up on their ft.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Friday 8 July-Saturday 27 August
From £22.50
Age steerage 6+; no below 3s
Skilled by 100 million folks globally and nonetheless drawing sell-out crowds at London’s Lyceum Theatre in its twentieth 12 months, Disney’s The Lion King involves Cardiff this summer season.
Set towards the majesty of the Serengeti Plains and to the evocative rhythms of Africa, this adaptation of Disney’s basic movie transports audiences to a stunning world that explodes with wonderful colors, beautiful results and enchanting music. At its coronary heart is the highly effective and shifting story of Simba – the epic journey of his journey from wide-eyed cub to his destined function as King of the Pridelands.
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Horrible Histories: Horrible Tudors
Memo Arts Centre, Barry
Saturday 9 July, 2pm and 5pm
£16.50 adults, £14 concession, £55.50 household of 4
From the horrible Henries to the tip of evil Elizabeth, hear the legends (and the lies!) in regards to the torturing Tudors. Discover out the destiny of Henry’s headless wives and his punch up with the Pope. Meet Bloody Mary and see Ed fall useless in his mattress. Survive the Spanish Armada as they launch their assault. It’s historical past with the nasty bits left in!
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Tiddly Promenade – Bert’s Magical Musical Farmyard
St David’s Corridor, Cardiff
Saturday 9 July-Saturday 16 July
£8
Age steerage: 5s and below
As a part of the Welsh promenade sequence, Arts Energetic current the Tiddly Promenade, a musical deal with for tots and their grown ups, giving little ones a style of stay musical devices. The clarinet, bassoon and viola are
showcased on this accessible, interactive live performance for the below 5s, by way of foolish songs, magic and storytelling. It’s a busy day on Bert’s farm with a lot of jobs to be achieved. However ‘Oho’, the rain is coming down and the tractor is caught in a muddy ditch. Even with all his associates serving to, Bert can not pull the tractor out of the slippy slidey gap. Maybe you and the magic of stay music can assist them?
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Household Promenade: A Stroll On The Wild Facet
St David’s Corridor, Cardiff
Sunday 10 July, 3.00pm
Adults £12.50, below 16s £8, below 5s free
Age steerage: 7+
Be part of Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Michael Bell MBE, for a fun-filled, hour-long orchestral live performance for all of the household. CPO have a good time their fortieth anniversary with a Stroll on the Wild Facet, from the Jurassic to the basic on this 12 months’s Household Promenade. Uncover pure wonders, tall tales and fantasy that includes Prokofiev’s basic Peter and the Wolf, reimagined for at present’s viewers.
The efficiency may even embrace John Williams’ favorite Jurassic Park together with Elgar’s Wild Bears (from the Wand of Youth Suite) and Saint-Saëns: The Elephant (from Carnival of the Animals) and a variety from Academy award successful, The Lion King.
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Priscilla Queen Of The Desert – BillBoard Ensemble
Memo Arts Centre, Barry
Wednesday 20-Saturday 23 July
Adults £15, concessions £13, group of 4 £50 (2 full and a couple of concessions)
Barry’s novice dramatic society Billboard Ensemble current the hilarious journey of three associates who hop aboard a battered outdated bus sure for the Outback to placed on the present of a lifetime. Their epic journey is a heart-warming story of self-discovery, sassiness and acceptance.
With an abundance of glitter, this smash-hit present contains a dazzling array of beautiful costumes, fabulous feathers and a continuous parade of dance-floor classics together with It’s Raining Males, Sizzling Stuff, I Will Survive, I Love The Night time, Lastly and lots of extra.
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New Theatre, Cardiff
Thursday 21-Sunday 24 July
£17-£28
Ben thinks his Friday evening at Granny’s home shall be boring – crammed with cabbage soup, cabbage pie and cabbage cake. Nevertheless Granny has a secret, and Friday nights are about to get extra thrilling than he may ever think about, as he embarks on the journey of a lifetime along with his very personal Gangsta Granny. From the acclaimed producers of Billionaire Boy and Terrible Auntie comes the award-winning West Finish manufacturing of this wonderful story by David Walliams, the UK’s best-selling writer for kids.
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Disney’s Excessive College Musical: on stage!
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Saturday 23-Saturday 30 July
Go Theatre current a stage model of the much-loved Disney musical theme as a part of Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festiva. Get’cha head within the sport and make a journey to the hallowed halls of East Excessive on this specifically tailored model of the smash hit Disney musical. Be part of Troy, Gabriella and the remainder of the scholars as they take care of past love, family and friends while balancing their courses and extra-curricular actions.
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Tiddler and Different Terrific Tales
New Theatre, Cardiff
Monday 25-Wednesday 27 July
£17
4 basic Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s tales come to the stage, with not simply Tiddler however Monkey Puzzle, The Smartest Large in City and A Squash and a Squeeze coming to the stage on this excellent introduction to theatre for pre-schoolers. From the crew behind Zog and Tabby McTat, funky strikes, count on toe tapping tunes and loads of humour as these much-loved tales are woven along with stay music, puppetry and an entire host of vibrant characters.
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Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
Thursday 28-Sunday 30 July
£9, kids and below 25s half worth
Age steerage 7+
Members of the Sherman Youth Theatre take to the stage with a swashbuckling new model of Treasure Island. Robert Louis Stevenson’s basic coming of age journey story guarantees an irresistibly entertaining deal with this summer season. Youth Theatre performers aged 8-18 take to the stage, joined by members of the theatre’s youngest group, Sherman Sherbets, who will seem in recorded audio.
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New Theatre, Cardiff
Friday 29-Sunday 31 July
£15, £56 household of 4
Age steerage: 3+
Expertise the hazards and delights of Dinosaur World Reside on this interactive present for all of the household. Seize your compass and be part of the intrepid explorer host throughout uncharted territories to find a pre-historic world of astonishing (and remarkably life-like) dinosaurs. Meet a bunch of spectacular creatures, together with flesh-eating large, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Triceratops, Giraffatitan, Microraptor and Segnosaurus. See the dinosaurs up shut with a meet and greet after the present.
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August
Mermarella – Cinderella of the Sea
Memo Arts Centre, Cardiff
Wednesday 3 August, 11am and 2pm
£10, £34 household of 4, £2 for the workshop
Age steerage: 4+
Kidnapped from the recent blue river water to the salty inexperienced sea, will Mermarella ever be accepted and discover love once more on this international kingdom? The story finest often called Cinderella form shifts into the world of the seas, linking nations and internet hosting creatures from each recent and salt water. Puppetry and shadow theatre for households. There shall be a workshop following the 2pm present. Tickets have to be pre-booked prematurely.
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Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Wednesday 3 August
Adults £11.75, kids £9.75, grownup and toddler£18.25, household (2+2) £32.75
Everyone clap your pans – it’s time for The Rascally Diner! Prepare dinner up a stink as a part of Rufus Skumskins O’Parsleys’ kitchen crew or deliver a pot to bang and push back evil muffins on this fun-filled, messy efficiency about meals.
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Hasbro Stars Reside – Starring Mr Potatohead
St David’s Corridor, Cardiff
Sunday 7 August, 12.30pm and three.30pm
Adults £18, kids £17, household of 4 £68
Age steerage: 3+
See wonderful music performances out of your favorite TV heroes, stay on stage. Ben and Holly will deliver journey, track video games and laughter for all of the household to hitch in. PJ Masks, recent after a brand new journey, will present all the children how they too may be wonderful tremendous heroes. Plus a really particular efficiency from My Little Pony stuffed with surprises. Becoming a member of the headline visitors are hosts Mr and Mrs Potato Head, who’re very excited and should even carry out some duets.
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New Theatre, Cardiff
Saturday 13-Sunday 14 August
£18.50-£23.50
Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka and associates are again of their fun-filled stay present Igglepiggle’s Busy Day. Be part of Igglepiggle as he seems for his associates within the Night time Backyard by following their humorous sounds till he finds all of them. See all of your favorite characters fantastically delivered to life with full-size costumes, magical puppets, and enchanting music. Now in its 13th 12 months, the present has been seen by greater than 1.3 million folks to this point. The present lasts slightly below an hour and little ones shall be amazed once they see a really particular go to from the wonderful flying Pinky Ponk.
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Cinderella in Hollywood – English Youth Ballet
New Theatre, Cardiff
Friday 19-Saturday 20 August
£20 – £28
English Youth Ballet’s thrilling new manufacturing of Cinderella in Hollywood is ready within the glamorous period of Hollywood motion pictures within the fifties. This lavish manufacturing attracts its inspiration from the movie star Grace Kelly who met Prince Rainier of Monaco at a press social gathering and later married him.
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New Theatre Cardiff
Tuesday 12-Saturday 27 August
£20-£45.50
Age steerage: 12+
From a younger child with huge desires, to the dizzying heights of worldwide stardom, The Cher Present tells the unimaginable story of Cher’s meteoric rise to fame, flying within the face of conference at each flip. With six many years of stardom and greater than ahundred million information bought this new musical options a few of her largest songs together with The Shoop Shoop Music, I Bought You Babe, If I Might Flip Again Time, Sturdy Sufficient and Consider. Written by Tony award successful Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), this new UK manufacturing is directed by Arlene Phillips (Grease, Starlight Specific), choreographed by Oti Mabuse (double Strictly winner) with costumes by Gabriella Slade (The Spiceworld Tour, SIX).
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Paw Patrol Reside: Race To The Rescue
Cardiff Motorpoint Enviornment
Thursday 25 August, 10.30am, 1.30pm, 4.30pm
From £30.50
A stay journey that includes your favorite pup heroes on stage. It’s the day of the Nice Journey Bay Race between Journey Bay’s Mayor Goodway and Foggy Backside’s Mayor Humdinger, however Mayor Goodway is nowhere to be discovered.PAW Patrol to the rescue! Ryder summons Marshall, Chase, Skye, Rubble, Rocky, Zuma and Everest to rescue Mayor Goodway and to run the race in her place.
Utilizing their distinctive abilities and teamwork, the pups present that “no job is just too huge, no pup is just too small,” and share classes for all ages about citizenship, social abilities and drawback fixing as they make a number of heroic rescues on their race to the end line.
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The Riverfront, Newport
Tuesday 30 August, 11.30am, 2.30pm and 4.30pm
Tickets £18, household of 4 £70
The stage is ready for the best expertise present ever! For the primary time collectively, see wonderful musical performances out of your favorite TV stars, stay on stage. Ben and Holly will sing a few of their favorite songs with assist from the magical Nanny Plum. The PJ Masks heroes, recent from a brand new journey, will present the children that they could be a hero too! And final however not least, a really particular efficiency from My Little Pony that can get each these hooves stomping. Becoming a member of the headline acts are the wonderful Mr Potato Head and Mrs Potato Head who’re tremendous excited to be internet hosting the present and who may additionally have a shock or two in retailer. Mr. Monopoly shall be ensuring that every thing is so as again stage in addition to making an look within the stage present of the 12 months. Prepare for enjoyable, laughter and plenty of singing and dancing within the distinctive multi-character stay stage present on its European tour.
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And searching additional forward…
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September
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Friendsical: A parody musical about Associates
New Theatre, Cardiff
Thursday 8-Saturday 10 September
Age steerage: 12+
£10.50-£32
Friendsical is an authentic and distinctive new parody musical impressed by the gang in iconic TV present, Associates. When Ross’s spouse leaves him for an additional girl, he fears he won’t ever discover love once more. However then Rachel runs again into his life… will he find yourself along with his one real love? With authentic new songs comparable to (He’s her) Lobster!, Richard’s Moustache and You’re Over Me, When Have been You Underneath Me?, the gang tackle bare Thursdays, an influence reduce, and a dinosaur conference! What may probably go fallacious?
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Wales Millennium Centre Dance Home, Cardiff
Monday 12-Saturday 17 September
From £20
Age steerage: 10+
Following an acclaimed run in 2021, this Wales Millennium Centre manufacturing based mostly on the e-book by Hamed and Hessam Amiri, returns to the Cardiff stage for one week solely, earlier than transferring to London’s prestigious Nationwide Theatre for a six-week run. Set in Herat, Afghanistan in 2000, it’s a few younger mom who, after talking out towards the Taliban, should flee her residence and nation along with her husband and their three sons. Embarking on a protracted and terrifying journey throughout Russia and thru Europe, they search ultimate refuge within the UK. However, as their eldest son’s life-threatening coronary heart situation worsens and requires pressing surgical procedure, their escape quickly turns into a race towards time.
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Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow Reside
New Theatre, Cardiff
Sunday 25 September, 7.30pm
£31 / £46.50 VIP Meet & Greet
20 years after the hit BBC present Da Bungalow first burst on to our screens, quadruple Bafta award winners Dick & Dom are bringing their very own particular sort of mayhem stay to Cardiff. Enjoyable for all ages and full of chaos and acquainted favourites together with Two-Phrase Tango, Musical Splatues, The Grunty Music, Pretty Furry Fizzogs, Pants Dance, What a Sweaty Flap and naturally Bogies, the stay present guarantees to deliver the spirit of Da Bungalow again to life. Count on the surprising because the legendary Creamy Muck Muck sport returns and with appearances from Diddy Dick and Dom, and D.I Harry Batt no member of the viewers is protected!
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October
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The Riverfront, Newport
Friday 7 October 4.30pm; Saturday 8 October at 11am, 2pm and 4.30pm, Sunday 9 October 11am and 2pm
Tickets £15
Age steerage: 3+
Dare to expertise the hazards and delights of Dinosaur World Livein this roarsome interactive present for all of the household.
Seize your compass and be part of our intrepid explorer throughout uncharted territories to find a pre-historic world of astonishing (and remarkably life-like) dinosaurs. Meet a bunch of spectacular creatures, together with each baby’s favorite flesh-eating large, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Triceratops, Giraffatitan, Microraptor and Segnosaurus!
After the 50 minute present, there’s a meet and greet providing courageous explorers the possibility to make a brand new dinosaur good friend.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Tuesday 11-Saturday 15 October
£18.50-£63
Age steerage: 12+; no below 2s
Chichester Pageant Theatre’s critically acclaimed, landmark manufacturing of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific involves Cardiff in 2022.
This highly effective love story, set on a South Pacific island throughout World Conflict ll, is introduced thrillingly to life in an epic new five-star manufacturing directed by Chichester Pageant Theatre’s Creative Director Daniel Evans (Me and My Lady and Fiddler on the Roof). With a sensational forged of over thirty and a full orchestra, this ravishing musical boasts one among Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most memorable scores, together with Some Enchanted Night, I’m Gonna Wash That Man Proper Outa My Hair and Bali Ha’i.
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New Theatre, Cardiff
Sunday 16 October
£23-£25
See CBeebies famous person and youngsters’s favorite Justin Fletcher stay on stage in an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza. Justin Reside is a household present packed stuffed with well-known songs, a lot of dancing, comedy and loads of slapstick enjoyable. Well-known for his BAFTA award-winning appearances in hit programmes together with One thing Particular, Justin’s Home, Gigglebiz and Gigglequiz, Justin Fletcher MBE is bringing his very personal spectacular present to our theatre in 2022.
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Milkshake! Reside – Milkshake Monkey’s Musical
St David’s Corridor, Cardiff
Wednesday 26 October, 12.30pm and three.30pm
Adults £18, kids £16.50, household of 4 £68
Milkshake Monkey is happy to be placing on a spectacular new musical. However when stage fright hits, his favorite Milkshake associates come to assist, creating probably the most dazzling present you’ve got ever seen. Be a part of this incredible manufacturing as you be taught the interactive songs and dances together with your favorite Milkshake associates, and watch because the music, the lights, the costumes and stage come collectively. Starring Fireman Sam, Noddy, Shimmer & Shine, Digby Dragon, Wissper, Nella the Princess Knight and the Floogals, alongside two Milkshake presenters, this new present has loads of laughter, viewers interplay and nice enjoyable to get everybody up on their ft.
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St David’s Corridor, Cardiff
Sunday 30 October, 3pm
£19.50-£52.50
From E.T. to Star Wars and past, nothing can evaluate to the enduring movie scores of John Williams. This live performance is packed stuffed with the Hollywood heavyweight’s most celebrated and iconic musicm together with Jaws, Star Wars, E.T., Superman, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and extra, carried out by the London Live performance Orchestra.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
31 October-5 November
£17.50-£59
Age steerage: 8+
A brand new manufacturing of the Broadway and UK smash hit musical Sister Act direct from London., starring TV and West Finish legend Lesley Joseph, West Finish sensation and Hairspray favorite Lizzie Bea and Emmerdale and Waitress star Sandra Marvin as Deloris, everybody’s favorite nun on the run.
Disco diva Deloris’ life takes a shocking flip when she witnesses a homicide. Positioned below protecting custody she is hidden within the one place she shouldn’t be discovered – a convent! Inspired to assist the struggling choir, she helps her fellow sisters discover their true voices as she unexpectedly rediscovers her personal.
That includes authentic music by Tony® and 8-time Oscar® award-winner Alan Menken (Disney’s Aladdin, Enchanted) and songs impressed by Motown, soul and disco, this heavenly musical is joyous and uplifting in equal measures. A musical despatched from above, Sister Act is the good, must-see present which raises the spirits and warms the soul time after time.
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November
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Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
Friday 4-Saturday 5 November; Monday 28 November-Saturday 31 December
£9.50
The Sherman’s Studio house presents a brand new Welsh adaptation of Goldilocks in its Christmas present for kids aged 3-6 and their households. Offering the proper introduction to theatre for little ones, this can be a recent have a look at the normal story. Goldilocks is the English translation of the Welsh language adaptation of Elen Benfelen. The present shall be carried out within the authentic Welsh at separate performances.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Tuesday 8-Saturday 26 November
£19.50-£72.50
Age steerage: 8+
The Lincoln Middle Theater’s critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning manufacturing of My Truthful Girl is coming to Wales Millennium Centre, following a West Finish run. My Truthful Girl tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a younger cockney flower vendor, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is decided to rework her into his thought of a “correct woman”. However who is de facto being reworked? That is first main revival of Lerner & Loewe’s much-loved musical on tour for over 15 years and contains the basic songs I Might Have Danced All Night time, Get Me to the Church on Time, Wouldn’t It Be Loverly, On the Road The place You Reside, The Rain in Spain, and I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Tuesday 29 November-Saturday 3 December
Age steerage: 12+
£17.50-£59
Willy Russell’s legendary musical tells the charming and shifting story of twins separated at start, who develop up on reverse sides of the tracks, solely to satisfy once more with tragic penalties.
Former X Issue finalist Niki Evans returns to the enduring function of Mrs Johnstone, and starring alongside her would be the touring circuit’s all-time favorite Mickey, Sean Jones, who shall be returning to the function for what shall be his ultimate ever tour in Blood Brothers.
The excellent rating contains Vivid New Day, Marilyn Monroe, Straightforward Phrases and the emotionally charged hit Inform Me It’s Not True.
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Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
Saturday 26 November-Saturday 31 December
£16-£27, concessions £2 discount, kids and below 25s half worth
Age steerage: 7+
The Sherman’s Principal Home household Christmas manufacturing is a enjoyable and irreverent new tackle basic fairy tales. Delivered to life by a proficient forged of actor musicians, expertise the Tales of the Brothers Grimm as you’ve by no means seen them earlier than.
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December
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
New Theatre, Cardiff
Sat 10 December 2022 – Solar 8 January 2023
£23.50-£45
Steps’s Ian ‘H’ Watkins, rugby legend Gareth Thomas and panto dame extraordinaire Mike Doyle star in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs following a triumphant season on the New Theatre final Christmas showing in Aladdin. The road-up additionally contains Coronation Road and Emmerdale star Siân Reeves, and comedy ventriloquist, BGT finalist Steve Hewlett.
Count on comedy, sensational track and dance numbers, fabulous costumes and beautiful surroundings. Throw in a magical mirror, seven pleasant dwarfs, an exquisite princess, a good-looking prince and loads of viewers participation and you’ve got the proper recipe to outwit the Depraved Queen and let love prevail on this glittering festive deal with for all ages.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
13 December-14 January
From £22.50
Age steerage: 8+, no below 2s
Again by widespread demand following a sell-out run, Cameron Waterproof coat’s acclaimed manufacturing of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Les Misérables returns to Cardiff.
This good new staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed “Les Mis for the twenty first Century”. With surroundings impressed by the work of Victor Hugo, the magnificent rating of Les Misérables contains the songs I Dreamed a Dream, On My Personal, Carry Him Dwelling, One Day Extra, Grasp Of The Home and lots of extra.
Seen by over 120 million folks worldwide in 52 nations and in 22 languages, Les Misérables is undisputedly one of many world’s hottest musicals.
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Motorpoint Enviornment Cardiff
Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 December
From £25
This supersized enviornment spectacular based mostly on the Hollywood blockbuster movie options wonderful movie backdrops on an enormous LED display screen plus a cell stage that travels the auditorium, so everybody will get a close-up view of the motion. Plus prepare for Santa’s flying sleigh, an viewers snowball combat, an indoor snowstorm, a large sweet cane journey from the North Pole, aerial cirque stars and large TV screens so that you don’t miss any of the spectacle.
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