Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
It is never too early to plan for the run up to Christmas especially so this year as from 24th November until 5th December the Grand Theatre is staging the hit musical Mamma Mia! The reason I am letting you know this early is that tickets go on general sale this Wednesday, 29th January and…
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Friday 31st January, 2020 is not just the most anticipated date this year so far, being the first payday since the Christmas holiday, but also because there is a new Premium Sports Bar opening in Ilkley, called Hub-Vybe at 30A Brook Street in the building which used to be The Yard. The logo displays the…
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For some reason the radio reception in my bathroom limits my listening choice to Radio 2, Stray FM or Classic FM. The first two are rather frenetic for first thing in the morning so my ablutions are usually carried out to the strains of the more well known pieces of the classical canon. I do…
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Street Scene is described in the Daily Telegraph’s preview as being a musical but Kurt Weill insisted it was an opera. This production at the Leeds Grand Theatre treated it as being the latter. It is my humble opinion that this was a mistake. The work is based on Elmer Rice’s play of the same…
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Now that Christmas and New Year are over and most of us are back at work I am sure that we would love something to look forward to to take our minds off a dull January and give a warm glow. What is this I see? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No!…
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Having been through the gamut of Christmas events on offer in Leeds it was time to indulge in the New Year Festivities, albeit a couple of days early. I never turn down an invitation to see and hear the wonderful Orchestra of Opera North, if I am totally honest I rarely turn down any invitation,…
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On Sunday I went to the Relaxed Performance of Peter and the Wolf and The Snowman. Normally this would have been my idea of torture but I loved every minute of it. I had kindly been invited by Opera North to see the programme and decided that the 4.30pm conventional performance would be just the…
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Christmas 1965, and I was given the newly released album Rubber Soul by The Beatles. Side One, Track Two, Norwegian Wood and a sound that very few of us had heard before, it was George Harrison playing the sitar, an Indian instrument which he had discovered on his spiritual trips, and I use the word…
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A couple of months ago I went on a nostalgic trip to my primary school. It wasn’t a special occasion, I had just written an article about my past and got an urge to go to see it again. I was one of the first pupils in the building being there on the day it…
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Well, here we are then. The first full season of events at the extensively refurbished Leeds Playhouse, and what a season it promises to be. There are several co-productions in the Spring/Summer programme to enable the best talent in the country to be utilised. On pole position is Night of the Living Dead – Remix…
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