Archives 2005

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2002 2003 2004 2006  

January 2005

3^rd

Organ society presents

Howard Beaumont

Start 8pm Tickets £4.50 members £3.50

Howard will be playing the Yamaha EL700

13^th

Jazzsteps presents

Gilad Atzmon’s “Musik”

This fiery Palestinian/Israeli leads the”Extended Orient House”in music from their second CD(“Exile” their first CD was voted best jazz CD at the British jazz Awards of 2003)

Tickets £12 and concs £8.

21^st – 29^th

Bonington Players presents

Mother Goose

A traditional pantomime for all the family

Start 7.30pm Tickets

February 2005

3^rd

Jazzsteps presents

“Acoustic Ladyland”

“Acoustic Ladyland rocks! If you didn’t know London jazz could sound this hip then rush out and hear them.If you were on a downer about the future of  British jazz, tonight might be a good time to have your mind changed. Jazzwise”

Tickets £9 and concs £7.

5^th – 6^th

Gregory School of Dance presents

VIVA

Start Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 2pm

Tickets Saturday 5 February 2005  £4.75 (concessions £3.75)

Sunday 6 February 2005  £5.50 (concessions £4.50)

Proceeds to the Play Centre for Children with Disabilities and their Families

7^th

Organ society presents

Nicholas Martin

Start 8pm Tickets £4.50 members £3.50

Nicholas will be playing the Technics G100

12^th – 13^th

Gregory School of Dance presents

VIVA

Start Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 2pm

Tickets ,  Saturday 12, and Sunday 13 £5.50 (concessions £4.50)

Proceeds to the Play Centre for Children with Disabilities and their Families

17^th

Jazzsteps presents

Zoe Raman Trio

A long awaited return for this fabulously gifted pianist accompanied by the sympathetic drumming of Gene Calderazzo and the stylish bass of Oly Hayhurst.

Tickets £9 and concs £7.

 18^th

GBC presents

Peter Presto

Fun for the kids

Start 2pm Tickets £

19^th

Cadenza presents

An Enchanted Evening

Songs from the shows

All profits to leukaemia research

Start 7.30pm Tickets £5

22^nd

WEA presents

Introduction to Technical Theatre

Tutor: Bob Massey

This basic course for technicians, actors and performers will look at the stage lighting. Sound and Stage Management skills required to stage a production. We will use the stage at Robert Mellors School and the Bonington Theatre Arnold to learn how this is achieved in large and small theatres.

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Places limited, pre-enrolment essential.

10 meetings Tuesdays 7—9pm Robert Mellors School, Bonington Dr. Arnold

Starts 22nd February 2005                        Fee: £45 (concessions A £33. 75, B Free)

For further details see the WEA Spring summer brochure.

Available from Libraries and direct from the WEA Tel 0115 9691481

23^rd  – 26^th

Prospect Players presents

Loot

By Joe Orton

Start 7.30pm Tickets

Hal robs a bank and hides proceeds in his late mother's coffin, a police inspector calls and is arrested himself

28^th

Stages presents

Twentieth Century Girls

Seen through the eyes of two women, Twentieth Century Girls is a haunting reflection of modern history. In a series of cabaret acts, momentous events are pitched against a love story, set to a bold soundtrack of jazz, sampled speech and poetry.

Tickets £6 and concs £4.50.

April 2005

1^st

GBC presents

Ray Raymond

Fun for the kids

Start 2pm Tickets £2

4^th

Organ society presents

Tim Flint

Start 8pm Tickets £4.50 members £3.50

Tim will be playing the Roland atelier AT90S

For those who haven’t had the TIM FLINT ‘EXPERIENCE’, it really is amazing. Tim isn’t just an organist, but also an entertainer, a musician, and a showman, believing that each performance should be ‘a show’, where the audience can forget their worries for a while, and lose themselves in the evening. As a player, he is excellent, being one of that rare breed that can turn his playing to almost any style: Classical, Orchestral, Jazz, Big Band, Theatre Organ, Electronic Organ, Jazz Organ, Piano, Latin American, and even more modern styles.

As an entertainer, he is larger than life, a big man (standing around 6’2”) who over the years has earned himself a reputation for flamboyance, usually seen in his evening performances wearing various sparkling outfits of different styles and colours, flowing capes etc, and his ability to ‘communicate’ and ‘interact’ with the audience (not forgetting his very quick wit and humour) is widely recognized, making the whole experience ‘unforgettable’.

5^th

North Notts photographic  presents

Photo 2005

Start 7.30pm Tickets £

6^th

DOE presents

Awards Evening

Start 7.30pm Tickets £

7^th

Jazzsteps presents

TIM RICHARDS “GREAT SPIRIT” 

Tickets £12 and concs £9.

On stage 8pm

Celebrating the launch of their new CD”Ephistrophy”Great spirit last seen at the Bonington in 1999 return to open the Spring season of jazzsteps.This great “ little big  band” features a plethora of jazz luminaries and young lions they are:Jason Yarde,Ed Jones,Chris Biscoe,saxes,Dick Pearce tp.Roger Beaujolais,vibes,,Neville Malcolm, bass,Seb Rochford drms.

A funky hard swinging jazz infected with Blues,Latin  and African rhythms

“a shrewd mix of the light dancing energy of Miles Davis of the “50”  and the head down drive of an Art Blakey band” John Fordham.

19^th

Stages presents

Kissing Married Women

 'Daft Dave' has never really had a girlfriend and sex is something he sees on the TV. But when his mate, Micky, re-launches him as a 'gigolo' their friendship is really tested. A hilarious and touching comedy from the ever-popular Hull Truck. Age:16+

Tickets £6.50 Cons £5.

21^st

Jazzsteps presents

 YURI HONING TRIO 

Tickets £9 and concs £7.

On stage 8pm

Yuri Honing has been described as one of the new leading voices in jazz.Add druumer Joost Lijbaart’s synthesis of African and contemporary styles and Tony Overwater’s unique percussive  style with the acoustic bass and you have an award winning Dutch group described by the Times as “one of the most creative ,fearless and alert jazz units of the moment”

 26^th

Foxes Music presents

An Evening of Organ Music

Harry Harris and James Sargeant On Tour

On tour star pianists Harry Harris and James Sargeant.  James, who is Yamaha's Product specialist for home keyboards and Clavinova digital pianos, is a very well known face on the keyboard scene.  This includes numerous concert performances, Yamaha dealer staff training and appearances in Yamaha's product video presentations.  His extensive knowledge of the UK keyboard market has enabled him to be involved in the development of Yamaha keyboards, as a part of the global research and development team.  Harry Harris is a unique musician with an uncanny ability to play any piece of music in any style.  His musical experience is huge, with many recording and TV appearances to his name.  These include resident pianist with Channel 4's 'The Big Breakfast' and ITV's 'The Johnny Vaughan Show'.  These two artists will present the two faces of the Yamaha CVP Clavinova, both as a concert standard piano, and as a digital orchestra.  This will be an evening to remember!  Contact your specialist Yamaha Keyboard dealer for full details and to reserve tickets.

 27^th

Organic Blond presents

An Evening with Donna Stewart

Start 7.30pm Tickets £8.50

Join the celebrated Medium and Author Donna Stewart in an evening of lively, sensitive and often humorous clairvoyance

28^th

Jazzsteps presents

 RSK Trio 

Tickets £10 and concs £8.

On stage 8pm

Jason Rebello(piano) Arnie Somogyi (bass) Stephen Keogh (drums) were part of a select group of young musicians central to the “resurgence” of the late 80’s and early 90’s.

Fuelled by youthful enthusiasm, backed by natural musicality and a competent grasp of their instruments they quickly made a mark and became much in demand both as sidemen and later as leaders

Now, more than 10 years later,having become established both in the UK and internationally, they have decide to play a few exclusive trio dates to there favourite UK audiences.

BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!

May 2005

1^st

Prima Dance presents

Let Us Entertain You

Start 2.30 and 7.15pm Tickets £

Performance by the students of the Prima Dance school

Proceeds to Notts Air Ambulance

3^rd

Organ society presents

JANET DOWSETT

Yamaha EL900

Start 8pm Tickets £4.50 members £3.50

5^th

Jazzsteps presents

Martin Speake’s Constellation-

The music of Charlie Parker

Tickets £9 and concs £7.

On stage 8pm

Features Martin Speake (Alto sax.),Mike Outram (guitar)

Simon Thorpe (bass),Dave Wickens (drums)

50 years on from the death of “Bird” Martin formed this  band to pay tribute to his genius and to celebrate  his music by playing his compositions and also standards and other material that he recorded. 

This music will include versions of compositions such as Segment, Drifting on Reed , Bird Feathers, Star eyes, Tico Tico,Bebop and many others.

6^th

Stages presents

Quiet Afternoon

 From his barstool, Mr Yupa dispenses football wisdom. From behind his bar, the Landlord puts a decaying world to rights. A comic and poignant story of humdrum lives - their hopes, desires and frustrations - and penalty shoot-outs. Age 11+

Tickets £6.50 Cons £5

On stage 7.30pm

7^th

GBC presents

Revival

Live 60s music at its very best. Book early this concert will be a sell-out

All in aid of wish upon a star charity

Start 7.30pm Tickets £10

11^th – 14^th

Prospect Players presents

Straight and Narrow

By Jimmy Chin

Start 7.30pm Tickets £5 cons £4.50

This is a play about relationships centring mainly around Bob, his partner Jeff  and their somewhat rocky one. Throw in Bob’s mother Vera, who is oblivious of her son’s homosexuality, and sisters Nona, who has recently separated from husband Arthur, and Lois, who is pregnant again but at least still married to Bill, and you have a family who, in American parlance, should be in therapy. It is also a play about lies (in all their guises) and we know this because Bob tells us so.

18^th

DOE presents

Awards Evening

Start 7.30pm

21^st

Sgt. Peppers Only Dart Board Band Presents

ABBEY ROAD  The TOUR

On Stage 7.30  Tickets £10

The entire classic Beatles album, followed by a full programme of the greatest Beatles hits. Don’t miss the Abbey Road Tour as it visits the Bonnington Theatre, The Band started in 1996 by the multi talented Martin Dimery, writer, musician and actor. Some members of the band had previously played in a touring show featuring the music of The Kinks, The Who and Pink Floyd and were fortunate to play The Glastonbury Festival and The Bath Festival Opening Night. Being experienced musicians the band quickly gained a reputation for being a fine live band,

The band prides themselves on playing 'completely live' and without the use of backing tracks. This means that songs like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "A Day in the Life", "Hello Goodbye", "I Am The Walrus" etc can be given the full treatment live on stage, something which the Beatles, unfortunately, never did. The boys aim is to carry the music and spirit of the Beatles through their barnstorming live performances. Audiences both young and old enjoy their covers of the Beatles greatest hits and a selection of album tracks from 1962 - 1970. The band brings a fresh tongue in cheek humour to their performances, which are not unlike that of the Fab Four.

27^th -29^th

Bonington Players presents

Don't Dress for Dinner - Mark Camoletti

adapted by Robin Hawdon

Start 7.30pm Tickets £

a web of marital treachery which accelerates with classic symmetry to an all star denouement

June 2005

2^nd

Jazzsteps presents

John Law/Flip Phillip Quartet-Monk and Beyond.

Start 8pm Tickets £10 cons. £8

The latest project of pianist composer John Law sees him in the company of three crazy Austrian musicians exploring and extending the innovations of Thelonious Monk.

Vibes player and composer Flip  Phillip together with the phenomenal rhythmic talents of Christian Salfellner(drums)and Matthias Pichler (bass)

complete this talented quartet

Compositions by John and Flip, alongside their favourite Monk tunes in new arrangements,

will make up the material of this short UK tour.

“Music for the head. The toes and everything in-between!”

3^rd

GBC presents

Pogo the Clown

Fun for the kids

Start 2pm Tickets £2

6^th

Organ society presents

JON SMITH

Wersi Performer

Start 8pm Tickets £4.50 members £3.50

13^th – 15^th

Sunshine theatre presents

Happy Days at Puddle on Sea

Start 7.30pm Tickets £5 cons. £4.50

A light hearted musical set in an imaginary seaside town.  Sea side entertainment with Songs and laughter for all the family.

Devised by Allen and Barbara Tipton

24^th

Pleiades Theatre presents

 Under a Michelangelo Sky

Tickets £6.50 and concs £5.50.

On stage 7.30pm

Under a Michelangelo Sky is new verse drama about domestic violence and post natal illness. Hard hitting and emotional, amusing and thought provoking. This play is an eclectic mix of poetry, humour and song.

What the critics said, ‘an accessible, moving piece offering a lot more than a beginners guide to puerperal psychosis’  ‘the flint family, credible characters created by a young team adept at comedy, tragedy and the traditional Nottinghamshire wedding punch up’  ‘seeing work by Maura Murphy is like mixing your drinks.’

If you want to laugh, cry, think and feel, come and see Under a Michelangelo Sky, experience a rollercoaster of emotions in this new and innovative play.

Performed at various venues throughout Nottinghamshire. A sell out literature event Nottingham Theatre Royal. Heading for The Fringe Festival 2005

July 2005

1^st – 2^rd

Flying High presents

Senior Showcase

By the Senior students of the Flying high Expressive Arts Company 

Start 7pm Tickets £5

2^rd  -3rd      

Flying High presents

Junior Showcase

By the Junior students of the Flying high Expressive Arts Company 

Start 2pm Tickets £5

4^th

Organ society presents

ANGIE DIGGENS

Yamaha EL900M

Start 8pm Tickets £4.50 members £3.50

9^th

GBC presents

Nottingham Youth Arts 

Start 12pm

Youth war time drama production

10^th

GBC presents

Youth  Showcase

Start 7pm

Dance, Drama and music 

15^th

Peoples Church presents

Mark Richie-

A Tale of 3 Journeys

Comedy and story telling from this all round entertainer. An evening of three gripping stories interlaced with humour and interaction that will motivate you in your personal, spiritual and working lives.

Start 7.30pm Tickets £5 ( ADMITS 2 PEOPLE )

Available from Peoples Church 0115 9204661

22^nd – 24^th

Original Theatre presents

 TWELFTH NIGHT, or what you will
By William Shakespeare

Tickets £12 and concs £8.

On stage 7.30pm

FOR ELEVEN DAYS THERE WAS NOTHING,

BUT THEN.   TWELFTH NIGHT

This summer be witness to a tale of lust, unrequited love and cruel deceit as The
Original Theatre Company continue their tradition of accessible and innovative
Shakespeare with a whole new take on this classic story; where the
upstairs/downstairs world of the Edwardian Country House is about to be turned
upside down

Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated in a shipwreck and, disguising herself as the
servant Cesario, Viola becomes a footman to Orsino the Duke of Illyria. Set the task of
winning Olivia's heart for her master she finds herself falling in love with Orsino whilst
at the same time becoming the object of Olivia's affections...
Meanwhile, with his overbearing manner and Puritanical attitudes, Olivia's Butler
Malvolio has antagonised other members of the household, in cahoots with Feste the
Clown the disgruntled household hatch a conspiracy against the pompous Malvolio. But
sometimes revenge can go too far.

24^th

GBC presents

Craft Fun

Build a Stix structure

Using recycled newspaper rolled tightly in the stix macking machine we will make short ( stixs ) rods. These stixs will then be tied together using cable ties to make a structure of the groups choice. We will also make a waver each to take home. Its easy – full instrucytions given. Run by Annette Waterfield

Start 1pm until 3pm Ages 8yrs to 15yrs. Please book and wear loose old clothing. £ per session

27^th

GBC presents

Circus Skills Workshop

A variety of circus skills which will be taught by Pogo the Clown.

Start 2.30pm until 4.30pm Ages 8yrs to 16yrs.  £ per session

29^th

GBC presents

Bag making with recycled materials

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Start 4pm until 6pm Ages 14yrs to 16yrs.  £ per session

31^st

GBC presents

Craft Fun

Maze

A large pattern of a walking maze will be provided: today you will create objects of interest to add to the maze, then experience the fun of walking on it. Run by Annette Waterfield

Start 1pm until 3pm Ages 8yrs to 15yrs. Please book and wear loose old clothing. £ per session

August 2005

3^rd

GBC presents

Circus Skills Workshop

A variety of circus skills which will be taught by Pogo the Clown.

Start 2.30pm until 4.30pm Ages 8yrs to 16yrs.  £ per session

5^th

GBC presents

Barry Kay

Fun for the kids

Start 2pm Tickets £2

 6^th

GBC presents

TV Drama Workshop

Alison Rashley from Carlton Junior Television Workshop will run a fun based session leading to improvisation, script reading and the general basics for TV presentation. Please Book This is the first of 3 sessions

Start 10am until 11.30am Ages 8yrs to 12yrs.  £4 per session.

7^th

GBC presents

Craft Fun

Badges and Jewellery

A Make badges and jellery to take home. You will learn to use friendly plastic, non toxic modelling material that softens by using heat. Run by Annette Waterfield

Start 1pm until 3pm Ages 8yrs to 15yrs. Please book and wear loose old clothing. £ per session

10^th

GBC presents

Circus Skills Workshop

A variety of circus skills which will be taught by Pogo the Clown.

Start 2.30pm until 4.30pm Ages 8yrs to 16yrs.  £ per session

 12^th

GBC presents

Freddies Magic Show

Fun for the kids

Start 2pm Tickets £2

12^th

GBC presents

Street Dance

Start 4pm until 6pm Ages 14yrs to 16yrs.  £ per session

 13^th

GBC presents

TV Drama Workshop

Alison Rashley from Carlton Junior Television Workshop will run a fun based session leading to improvisation, script reading and the general basics for TV presentation. Please Book This is the 2^nd  of 3 sessions

Start 10am until 11.30am Ages 8yrs to 12yrs.  £4 per session

14^th

GBC presents

Craft Fun

Mask Making

Build a clay mould for your mask then add modroc plaster to create the mask.Run by Annette Waterfield

Start 1pm until 3pm Ages 8yrs to 15yrs. Please book and wear loose old clothing. £ per session

15^th

GBC presents

Circus Skills Workshop

A variety of circus skills which will be taught by Pogo the Clown.

Start 2.30pm until 4.30pm Ages 8yrs to 16yrs.  £ per session

 19^th

GBC presents

Barry Perkins

Fun for the kids

Start 2pm Tickets £2

21^st

GBC presents

Craft Fun

Shadow Puppet Show

We will make simple cardboard shadow puppets and perform two stories for the benefit of the group.Run by Annette Waterfield

Start 1pm until 3pm Ages 8yrs to 15yrs. Please book and wear loose old clothing. £ per session

24^th

GBC presents

Circus Skills Workshop

A variety of circus skills which will be taught by Pogo the Clown.

Start 2.30pm until 4.30pm Ages 8yrs to 16yrs.  £ per session

26^th

GBC presents

Peter Presto

Fun for the kids

Start 2pm Tickets £2

 27^th

GBC presents

TV Drama Workshop

Alison Rashley from Carlton Junior Television Workshop will run a fun based session leading to improvisation, script reading and the general basics for TV presentation. Please Book This is the 3rd of 3 sessions

Start 10am until 11.30am Ages 8yrs to 12yrs.  £4 per session

 31^st

GBC presents

Circus Skills Workshop

A variety of circus skills which will be taught by Pogo the Clown.

Start 2.30pm until 4.30pm Ages 8yrs to 16yrs.  £ per session

September 2005

1^st  - 4^th

Lorna Leighton School of Dance presents

Decadance

The end of year performance 2005
Children from 2yrs performing various acts including Ballet, tap, Disco, Jazz and majorette (baton twirling)
For performance times and tickets please contact Lorna Leighton on 0115 9615569

On stage 2.30 and 7.30pm

5^th

Organ society presents

DAVID INGLEY

Winning a talent completion at the age of ten gave David the ambition to try for greater targets
He offered his services to local charity concerts and quickly became a demand
He entered and won a teenage competition at a national organ festival
David played many junior spots at organ festivals both in his country and abroad
At the age of fourteen David's future was taking shape he was accepting semi professional engagements
He became a fulltime professional organist in 1986
Her currently plays a Technics GA3 organ & Yamaha PSR 8000 keyboard

Start 7.30pm Tickets £4.50 members £3.50

 7^th

GBC presents

Beginners Stage Lighting and Sound Course

Week 1

Learn how a show is staged and how light and sound are used.

Age group 14 – 18 yrs

7pm – 9pm

  £ 15 per person for the course of 4 sessions

 14^th

GBC presents

Beginners Stage Lighting and Sound Course

Week 2

Learn how a show is staged and how light and sound are used.

Age group 14 – 18 yrs

7pm – 9pm

  £ 15 per person for the course of 4 sessions

 18^th

Guild of Magicians presents

GALA MAGIC SHOW 2005

This Show is now sold out

An Evening of Magic and Illusion

Staring Paul Daniels

with Ali Bongo, Michael Pearse, Bunny Neil and Ali Cadabra
The ever-popular Gala Magic Show returns to the Bonington Theatre, Arnold Leisure Centre, Nottingham.
The Guild of Magicians' primary objective is to provide a meeting place for anyone seriously interested in the art of magic.

It provides a forum for the interchange of ideas and training in the many skills, crafts and techniques of magic.
It promotes the practice of magic and its presentation as an entertainment.

Doors will open at 7.00pm, Show starts 7.30pm. Tickets £12.00 & £10.00 concessions

21st

GBC presents

Beginners Stage Lighting and Sound Course

Week 3

Learn how a show is staged and how light and sound are used .

Age group 14 – 18 yrs

7pm – 9pm

  £ 15 per person for the course of 4 sessions

22^nd

Jazzsteps presents

Mark Lockheart's ”Big Idea”

on stage 8pm

Tickets £12 concs.£8

Featuring Mark Lockheart,Steve Buckley,Jason Yarde,Julian Siegel reeds

John Parricelli guitar,Dudley Phillips bass,Martin France drms.

Small spontaneous ideas became “Big Ideas” when Mark started to orchestrate them for this seven piece group.

With the unusual line up of 4 reeds (including two bass clarinets) Big Idea promises to be a fascinating concert of world-class modern music.Although coming from jazz, the music draws upon contemporary classical folk and world influences.

“Lockheart creates the most inviting musical landscapes,alive with fresh bright instrumental combinations and harmonies” The Observer

23rd           

Northampton Festival Opera presents

A Night at the Opera

 A night at the opera will include Verdi's Nabucco, Mozart's The Magic Flute, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Rossini's the Barber of Seville, Offenbachs's Orpheus in theUnderworld and The Two Blind Mice, Bizet's Carmen, Delibes Lakme and Puccini's La Boheme . All sung in English by the guest principals, soloists and chorus of the NFO.

Tickets £12 and concs £10.

On stage 7.30pm

27^th Stages presents

Beyond Midnight

 Happily ever after is about to end Cinderella is dead. The law decrees that her widowed husband must remarry.  He still has the glass slipper can it work for him again?  
Another foot fits perfectly, but this time round the consequences are far from fairytale. Meet a host of eccentric and captivating characters in this dark and unexpected journey of Cinderella's daughter from splendour to ashes and not quite back again. 
Fusing Trestles trademark visual style, masks, puppetry and music with an exciting piece of new writing, Beyond Midnight tells a familiar story in unfamiliar ways to create a dark, witty and distinctly adult production.

Please note this production is not suitable for children under 14.  
On stage 7.30pm  
Tickets: £7.00 (5.50 conc.)

 28^th

GBC presents

Beginners Stage Lighting and Sound Course

Week 4

Learn how a show is staged and how light and sound are used.

Age group 14 – 18 yrs

7pm – 9pm

  £ 15 per person for the course of 4 sessions

29^th

Jazzsteps presents

 Shanti Jazz World

on stage 8pm

Tickets £9 concs.£7.

Introducing a new international group to Bonington audiences a groove and melody-focused band for jazz and world music lovers looking for something with feeling

 Led by trumpeter/composer Paul Jayasinha using Brazilian/Afro/Cuban roots the music composed by him features some of England's finest musicians.

Paul Jayasinha( according to Snowboy “ Englands No.1 sonero” ) along with Patrick Clahar(ts),John Crawford (p), Davide Giovannini (drms) and bassist Andy Lafone are Shanti JazzWorld

The combination of just irresistible grooves with such melodic compositions marks them as a band to watch but above all the band is determined to have fun, which is what it's all about.

October 2005

3^rd

Organ Soc presents

TOM HORTON

 Toms interest in music began around the age of nine when his grandparents bought him an organ and encouraged him to take music lessons.  Tom has passed many music exams in his short career including American Theatre Organist Society" Young Organist of the year 2000
This is Toms first visit to Nottingham Organ Society
He will bring his much favoured Yamaha 90

Tickets £4.50 and concs £3.50.

On stage 7.30pm

6^th

Jazzsteps presents

Manu Ventura and Friends

 on stage 8pm

Tickets £10 concs.£8

The outstanding UK based Peruvian guitarist plays modern Jazz that draws in  diverse influences from from Indian,Chinese and Latin music.Highly original and entertaining.

Mano has played with an array of music groups throughout his career but his own septet of the eighties that featured the awesome talents of Courtney Pine,Roberto Bellatella,Roberto Pla and Frank Tontoh achieved cult status

12^th – 15^th

Bonington Players presents

Role Play

By Alan Ayckbourn

RolePlay, returns to vintage Ayckbourn territory: the dinner party from hell. A young couple are planning to announce their engagement at an introductory supper for their prospective in-laws. Her father is a Southerner's worst nightmare of a bigoted, mirthlessly joking Yorkshire businessman: his mother is a magisterial lush from Godalming. What makes it worse is that before they arrive, a boxing promoter's moll  has dropped in – quite literally – landing from an upstairs flat on to the balcony as she tries to give her thick, armed minder the slip

Tickets £5

On stage 7.30pm

20^th

Jazzsteps presents

Sheena Davis Group

onstage 8pm

Tickets £9 concs.£7

Sheena Davis (Vocals),Robert Rickenberg (bass)Tom Pilling (p)Stephen Rushton(drms)

Since the release of “Smile” in 2001 the Sheena Davis Group has become established as one of Britains most exciting jazz ensembles. With tight arrangements of material that goes from a whisper to high octane jazz their repertoire is based around the jazz standards to which they have added original material as well as reworkings of songs associated with the modern popular songbook They tour extensively and have featured at major festivals,Ronnie Scotts and Pizza on the Park.

“she can make a well-known song sound new…a sweet,cool voice and a superb ear for pitch” Dave Gelly, the Observer

27^th

Jazzsteps presents

Kirk Lightsey Trio

on stage 8pm

Tickets£9 concs.£7

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Features Kirk Lightsey (p),Steve Watts (b) Dave Wickens (drms)

Kirk Lightsey the tall bald athletic looking former Dexter Gordon pianist from Detroit Michigan is a powerful keyboard artist with huge hands a smile and a technique to match.

He plays a standards-show misleadingly labeled straight ahead jazz for there is an unflagging improvisation coursing through the superb keyboard odysseys that he builds with the support from the telepathic interaction with Steve Watts and Dave Wickens

“Once in front of the Bonington Steinway he romped through a programme of scintillating music played with bewildering technique” Alan Joyce Nottingham Evening Post

28^th

GBC presents

Pandora

Children's Show

 Magic and Music All the fun for the kids

Tickets £ 2

On stage2pm

29^th

GBC presents

The Joe Cocker Experience

This show has been cancelled

A tribute to four decades of one of the worlds greatest Rock, Blues and Soul voices.

This 12 piece high energy band will have on you dancing in the aisles whether you're a Cocker fan or not.

All the hits are there: Little Help From My Friends, Delta lady, Unchain My Heart, The Letter, Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong, You Are So Beautiful  and many more.

I thoroughly enjoyed the concert and would strongly recommend you go and see this band perform.

Diane Wicks of the JOE COCKER FANZINE Civilised Man

Start 8.30pm Tickets £9.50p

November 2005

3^rd

Jazzsteps presents

Renato D'Aiello's European All Stars

0n stage 8pm.

Tickets £10 concs.£8

Featuring  Mark Bassey (tb), Phil Lee (gtr) Nicola Muresu (b)  Andrea Michelutti  (drms)

“Italian saxophonist Renato D'Aiello oozes class,when he plays  quietly the effect is like an old friend giving you some much needed advice, but when he lets rip, he has you rocking in your chair” James Griffiths jazz critic The Observer

Renato returns with a line-up of superlative musicians masters each of their own instruments to lend weight to the beautiful arrangements melodies and harmonies that are the signature of this band.

4^th

Stages presents

Travels with my Virginity

Guy is 19 years old and desperate to lose his virginity.

So he hitch-hikes across France, hoping to hook up with an old girlfriend and pick up from where they left off. Along the way he is picked up by an increasingly strange series of people, including an incestuous family, a menacing nightclub barman and the recent inmate of a sanatorium! 
And the big question remains does Guy lose his virginity and if so, to whom?

Travels with my Virginity is a mixture of an intriguing and bizarre road movie and a rather painful but familiar rite of passage. Ultimately this is an innovative and absorbing piece of auto-biographical storytelling from the Time Out Live award-winning artist, Guy Dartnell.

Show starts 7.30pm
Tickets: 6.50 (5.00 conc.)
Running Time: 1hr 30min (no interval)
Age: 16+
Warning: Some strong language

7^th

Organ Soc presents

EDDIE RUHIER

Eddie hails from Yorkshire and is a firm favourite with organ fans all over the country
He has a sound and style of music all of his own
He still plays a genuine Hammond X5 portable organ made in 1972 expertly maintained by Eddie himself the equipment he uses with the Hammond include a Leslie speaker, a rhythm unit and mixer
He composes many of the pieces of music he plays
A night for all serious organ music lovers

Tickets £4.50 and concs £3.50. child £2.50

On stage 7.30pm

10^th

Jazzsteps presents

“Brassjaw” saxophone jazz quartet

0n stage 8pm

Tickets £9 concs.£7

Brassjaw features some of the most innovative young saxophonists in the Scottish and European jazz scene today. Conceived in the late summer of 2003 the group namely Martin Kershaw(as) Paul Towndrow (as) Brian Molley (ts) and Allon Beauvoisin (bs) encompass a wide range of styles with intense high octane solo's and powerful grooves.

Young lions stretch their claws.

11^th – 12^th

L Powell presents

Pop Divas Winter Express

Dance and song for all the family. Children aged 3 - 16 year old will once again produce a dazzling show of popular music.  The singing and dancing is performed by children from all over the local area and beyond.   The show will also include a special appearance from the parents who will be strutting their funky stuff!

Tickets £6.00

On stage     11^th at7.30pm        12^th 2.00pm and 7.30pm

16^th -19^th

Prospect Players presents

 Oliver

Songs, glorious, songs from the pen of Loionel Bart.  Not only the music but book and lyrics.  A show of full tuneful melodies based on  "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickins.  From the Workhouse to his grandfather's house follow the fortunes of Oliver as he meets with The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes with a host of other colourful characters all set to wonderful and memorable music.

Tunes, Glorious, Tunes to paraphrase the opening number of thismusical by Lionel Bart. The show opened at the New Theatre in London in June 1960. It starred Ron Moody as Fagin and Georgia Brown as Nancy. Since then there has been a production either amateur or professional every month somewhere in the world.Based on Charles Dickens' book Oliver Twist, it tells the story of Oliver the boy who asked for more. We follow his adventures from the Workhouse to the final reconciliation with his Grandfather.

David Pierce plays Fagin in this production, with Sheila Millington as Nancy, Adam Guest as the villainous Bill Sykes andlocal boys Adam Cobb and James Mitchell as Oliver and TheArtful Dodger. Trevor Impey and Barbara Buxton play Mr.Bumble and Widow Comey. A number of local young people will be in the cast and together with other members of the Prospect Players and guests we hope you will enjoy this tuneful show.

The production is designed and directed by Graham Errington and Musical Director is Alan Wilson. Choreography by Lesley Reason.

Tickets £5 and concs £.4.50

All shows Start 7.30pm  Extra Saturday  show at 2.30pm

23^rd

Return of the Kings presents

Return of the Kings

A tribute to Elvis and Orbison

Tickets £10.50

On stage 7.30pm

24^th

Jazzsteps presents

 “Partisans”

on stage 8pm

Tickets £9 concs.£7

Features Phil Robson (gtr) Julian Siegel (reeds) Cene Calderazzo (dms)

Thad Kelly (bass)

The all star UK jazz band are currently on tour with their new album “Max”

which takes it's name and inspiration from one of the greatest drummers of all time:Max Roach.

Partisans have been thrilling audiences since it's formation in 1996 with it's tightly knit themes and a great freedom coming from the years of playing and giging together

.One of the first new wave of UK jazz bands to be influenced as much by Jimi Hendrix as by Miles Davis or Sonny Rollins, their visceral,groove based sound, combines bop lines with rock riffs and flowing melodies, bridging the gap between New York swing, rock and the US jam-band scene.

“Partisans were the highlight of the festival ,jazz that makes you blink in it's glare” John Fordham

25^th – 27^th

Arnold Arts presents

 Arts Exhibition and Show 2005

Tickets 20p

Open from 10am to 5pm

30^th

Dover Beck Flowers presents

A Most Magical Time of the Year

With Jonathan Moseley N.D.

Tickets £7

On stage 7.30pm

December 2005

1^st

Jazzsteps presents

 Tommaso Starace Quintet

 on stage 8pm

Tickets £10 concs £8

Features Tommaso Starace (as,ss),Liam Noble (p) Roger Beaujolais(vb)

                  Alec Dankworth (b),Jim Hart (drms)

For this evenings concert the quintet will take you back to the mood of the 1950'sby performing new compositions based upon eight selected photographs of Magnum Agency's renowned photographer Elliott Erwitt.

The audience will have the chance to create their own story through the projection of the photographs and the accompanying musical compositions.

The evening will also feature a few unusual standards  plus compositions by Italian saxophonist Rosario Giuliani who has been a  strong inspiration for Tommaso's playing.  Expect the evening to swing hard!!!! (Tommaso's words)

….”.A talented composer….the rhythm section is dynamic and Starace is star material.” Ian Carr/ trumpeter,composer,educator

3^rd

Bravo Productions presents

 The Good Old Days

Tickets £9.50 and concs £7.50

On stage 2.30 and 7.30pm

Join in the gaiety and fun of the old Time Music Hall with

Mr Gary St John The Velvet Voiced Virtuoso                            Miss Angela Drake The Siler Sounding Soprano

Miss Christine Stubbs a Shining Star of the Musical Stage       Miss Judy Savournin The Undisputed Queen of Comedy

Mr Alan Thompson A Bravura Buffo basso                                Miss Judi Johnson-Hart A Vision of Voluptuous Vivacity

Mr Andrew Stansall a Terpsichorean Tenor                               Miss Jo Savournin  The Personification of Pulchritude

Mr John Savaournin A Congenial Comic Character                   Mr Clive Moore & Jeanni  The Masters of Mirth and Magic

 Maestro Mr Nigel Gyte  king of the Keyboard                         Chairman Mr Alf Bailey The Acme of Amazing Articulation

4^th

London School of Music presents

Awards and Student Showcase

Tickets £ and concs £.

On stage 2pm

5^th

Organ Soc presents

ROBERT WOLFE

Robert is one of the leading organists in the country
This year sees Robert celebrating 25 years as resident organist at the Thursford Collection Norfolk
Home of one of the finest Wulitzer Theatre Organs
Robert brings to Nottingham an American built Lowery Organ
Believed to be the only one on the concert circuit
A fitting concert to the end of the year

Tickets £4.50 and concs £3.50. child £2.50

On stage 7.30pm

8^th

Jazzsteps presents

Bill McHenry Trio

 on stage 8pm

Tickets £9 concs.£7

:features Bill McHenry (ts),Jeff Williams (drms) Arnie Somogyi tbc (bass)

A rare opportunity to enjoy the talented playing of two musicians who are key members of several groups led by some of the best new voices in jazz: Argentine composer Guillermo Klein, bassist Reid Anderson, pianists Ethan Iverson and Ben Waltzer.

Bill's latest CD features special guest Paul Motion and they are scheduled to play at the Village Vanguard in the JVC jazz festival summer 2005

Jeff Williams CV reads like “the seat for the greats” Stan Getz, Joe Lovano

Lee Konitz Paul Bley Dizzy Gillespie Clifford Jordan Gary Peacock Michel Petrucciani  all new and appreciated is worth. Currently he leads two bands in performances around New York but it is his recording with McHenry /Iverson quartet that has bought together this touring duo.   

 10^th

Cadenza presents

Cadenza’s Charity Christmas Cracker

 The group will perform music from the musicals, opera and popular music.

Local singing group, Cadenza, will be performing songs from the shows with a sprinkling of Christmas.

The concert will feature songs from well loved musicals such as Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof and Scrooge as well as some sing-a-long Christmas favourites.

All proceeds will be donated to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and The Brain Tumour Fund at the Queens Medical Centre. 

The group of talented vocalists met whilst treading the boards at the Theatre Royal with the Nottingham Operatic Society.  Cadenza comprises Jean Hardwick, Frank Nicholson, Trevor Impey, Lara Hanrahan, Sue Harris, Ian Pottage, Dan Armstrong and Jayne Russell.   There will also be a guest appearance by talented young musician, Thomas Pottage and musical accompaniment by Noel Henry. 

Tickets £6

On stage 7.30pm

12^th – 14^th

Fourblokes presents

Bouncers

By JOHN GODBER

Bouncers takes place in and around Mr Cinders, a northern nightclub and is a play in two acts

Not for the faint-hearted - join Jud, Ralph, Les & Lucky Eric for a Friday night at the Club that you'll never forget, as our four heroes portray the girls' night out & the lads on the pull.
The 'Hooray Henrys' & the pogo-ing punks, glitz, glamour, booze, bopping, violence & vomit, all human life is here ... and some not so human!

Tickets £ 7.50p

On stage 7.30pm

Of an Adult nature and with occasional strong language of the show is not suitable for under 14's.

15^th

Jazzsteps presents

Tony Kofi Organ Trio

on stage 8pm

Tickets £10 concs £8

:

 featuring Swedish piano, Hammond organ and Keyboard player Anders Olinder :plus special guest  Byron Wallen (tp) Drummer tbc

 Tony Kofi's debut album “All is Know” received the BBC's music award in 2005 Proper Records are recording an organ trio with guests as the follow up to this highly successful first project. This is the project that we are bringing to the Bonington Theatre to celebrate the festive season.

17^th -18^th

L Powell presents

Pop Divas Winter Express

Dance and song for all the family. Children aged 3 - 16 year old will once again produce a dazzling show of popular music.  The singing and dancing is performed by children from all over the local area and beyond.   The show will also include a special appearance from the parents who will be strutting their funky stuff!

Tickets £6.00

On stage     17^th at7.30pm        18^th 2.00pm