It’s here, it’s announced and I don’t have to bite my tongue
any longer – our new season was officially launched. It’s
certainly been a struggle to keep the lid on it this time around.
As many of you will know already, the posters have been up
for some time, we’re opening our September to February programme with a huge
coup for the Coliseum – Chicago. You
all know the hugely popular story of Roxie and Velma from previous incarnations
on stage and screen alike. However, I am massively delighted to say here in
Oldham, the Coliseum has been granted the rights for a new production of the
show. This will be the first new airing of the vaudevillian classic since 1997,
and we’re already well on the way to pulling together an ambitious show including
with a few surprises too.
With Baz Luhrmann’s recent adaptation of The Great Gatsby 1920s Americana is very
much of the moment and if you throw in a little of the all-singing, all-dancing
fun from our hugely popular Blonde
Bombshells of 1943 production you can start to get a flavour to what will
be a fantastic spectacle.
And that’s only one show – there’s also the world premiere
of No Fat Juliets, written by and
starring Sue McCormick of recent Ladies’
Day fame. Think Fawlty Towers meets
Morecambe and Wise and you’re someway
there. This new play is part of our commitment to new writing and helping to
keep theatre new and original.
Our packed out season launch event was a brilliant way to
let the cat out of the bag about what we’ve got coming up, but we also have the
tail end of our summer season upon us.
Sebastian Faulks’s epic wartime novel Birdsong has flown it’s West End nest is currently here in
Oldham until Saturday, as part of a national tour. The BBC celebrated it as
one of the best-loved books in the country and the stage adaptation has been
just as lovingly received.
See you at the theatre,
Kevin
Artistic Director
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