Spend Spend Spend!
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Admit it, musicals make you feel good. They unlock that pocket of campness inside you and convert it into that warm feeling when you leave the theatre.
The Watermill Theatre won a TMA award for best musical last year, and Kirtsy Hoiles won an award for best supporting actor in a musical.
The musical is 'Spend Spend Spend'.
Wassit all about?
Well, in 1961, Yorkshire housewife Viv Nicholson won £152,319 in the football pools (equivalent of 3 million today). When a reporter asked her what she planned to do with her new fortune, she replied, "I'm going to spend, spend, spend!" Her rags to riches to rags again story has been a very successful musical, and it's going on tour! It's directed and choreographed by the mean one from Strictly Come Dancing, Craig Revel Horwood, and musical arrangements in the show are by the Tony Award-winning Sarah Travis. The show features 12 highly versatile actor musicians who act, sing and dance whilst playing all the instruments live on stage, and they juggle (they don't juggle).
TOUR DATES
28 September – 2 October – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
5 – 9 October - Oxford Playhouse
12 – 16 October - The Lowry, Salford
19 – 23 October - West Yorkshire Playhouse
26 – 30 October - The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
2 – 6 November – Richmond Theatre
9 – 13 November New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
www.watermill.org.uk
Well, in 1961, Yorkshire housewife Viv Nicholson won £152,319 in the football pools (equivalent of 3 million today). When a reporter asked her what she planned to do with her new fortune, she replied, "I'm going to spend, spend, spend!" Her rags to riches to rags again story has been a very successful musical, and it's going on tour! It's directed and choreographed by the mean one from Strictly Come Dancing, Craig Revel Horwood, and musical arrangements in the show are by the Tony Award-winning Sarah Travis. The show features 12 highly versatile actor musicians who act, sing and dance whilst playing all the instruments live on stage, and they juggle (they don't juggle).
TOUR DATES
28 September – 2 October – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford5 – 9 October - Oxford Playhouse
12 – 16 October - The Lowry, Salford
19 – 23 October - West Yorkshire Playhouse
26 – 30 October - The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
2 – 6 November – Richmond Theatre
9 – 13 November New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
www.watermill.org.uk
