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22 Issue 62 • March 2023
WHAT’S ON
WHAT’S ON
What’s on in Worcester
Worcester Festival Choral Society’s Journey into a colourful production
voices depict friends, priests, featuring vibrant and energetic
demons and angels along the way. songs from the most loved shows
- Joseph, Jesus Christ Superstar,
Tickets £15-£27 from www.wfcs.online SIX, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera,
or TicketSource: 0333 666 3366. Mamma Mia, We Will Rock You,
Jersey Boys, Les Misérables, Moulin
Rouge and more.
HENRY BLOFELD –
MY DEAR OLD THINGS Book tickets on 01905 611 427 or at
Wednesday 22 March – 7.30pm www.worcestertheatres.co.uk
Huntingdon Hall
ROMEO AND JULIET
Sunday 26 March – 7.30pm
Swan Theatre
Join Ballet Theatre UK with their
passionate and innovative recreation
of the world’s greatest love story,
Romeo and Juliet.
As the nation celebrates 400 years
of William Shakespeare’s legacy,
THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS
Saturday 18 March – 7.30pm Ballet Theatre UK creates a new
Worcester Cathedral production to tell the tragic tale of
star-crossed lovers with astonishing
grace and heart-breaking intimacy.
Sir Edward Elgar’s much-
loved choral work, The Dream
of Gerontius, will be sung by In My Dear Old Things, Blowers Stunning costumes and innovative
a 140-strong local choir. The recalls his days as a young England stage sets transport you to
performance is being staged by cricket hopeful, how an Eton bus Renaissance Verona where our tragic
Worcester Festival Choral Society, knocked him off his stride (and his tale unfolds of the Capulet and
which in the 1890s was often bike!), recoiling from a career in the Montague families.
conducted by Elgar and premiered City to work as a cricket journalist
two of his choral compositions. before finding his way into the Test Book tickets on 01905 611 427 or at
Match Special box. www.worcestertheatres.co.uk
Widely regarded as one of Elgar’s
finest, most thrilling masterpieces, There are hilarious tales of
The Dream of Gerontius is set to Johnners, Arlott and other larger-
a poem by John Henry Newman than-life characters in the box and
about a dying man’s soul journeying on tour with England. Henry also
to the judgment throne, led by his has plenty of hysterical stories from
guardian angel. his post-retirement appearances on
Would I Lie to You? and The Real
Marigold Hotel.
Book tickets on 01905 611 427 or at
www.worcestertheatres.co.uk
DREAMCOAT STARS
Saturday 25 March – 7.30pm
Swan Theatre
Featuring stars from the hit production THE PASSION PLAY
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Friday 7 April – 10.30am
Dreamcoat Experience - powerful star Worcester city centre: Cathedral
vocals in a musical evening of West Square and High Street
End and Broadway classics! Free to attend.
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