South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture

 

32 years of Rock ’n’ Rolling the World!

This breathtaking show has rock ’n’ rolled audiences across the globe from Cardiff to California, Barking to Bangkok and Swindon to Sweden and is guaranteed to have everyone singing along to the music and dancing in the aisles.

It stars some of the finest actor-musicians in the UK whose combined West End credits include Buddy, Lennon, Forbidden Planet and Jailhouse Rock and was endorsed as Britain’s most popular Buddy Holly act when the boys guested on BBC One's Saturday night live programme, “The One and Only”, hosted by Graham Norton.

The show rarely pauses for breath and is, quite simply, the most compelling concert of its kind. The hits just keep on coming - That’ll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Heartbeat, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore, Raining In My Heart, Oh Boy! – and much, much more.

Whatever the season, whatever the excuse to party, make your Heartbeat a little faster with the show that has thousands of fans the world over saying: “I can’t believe it’s not Buddy!”

“The audience were dancing in the aisles and roaring for more” - The Stage
“Buddy brilliant!” - Graham Norton, BBC One
“Fantastic...the best... tremendous night out...I can’t praise the show enough” - The Kent and Sussex Courier
“Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without Buddy Holly and The Cricketers” - Somerset County Gazette

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Available to book online or by calling Rutherglen Town Hall on 0141 613 5700.

Cost: £22.00 / £20.00

This iconic pop rock musical is set in the East Village of New York city, and is about falling in love, finding your voice, and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Running for 12 years on Broadway, Rent has songs that rock, and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages.

Based loosely on Puccini's ‘La Boheme’, the narrative follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists, struggling to survive in New York's Lower East Side. Set in the 1990’s, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS, this musical narrates the physical and emotional complications of the disease that pervades the lives of these young people. The musical centres around Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, and his flatmate Roger, a musician, and their diverse group of friends and how these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves, and conflicts.

Rent School Edition is exuberant, passionate, gritty and ultimately uplifting. It deals with themes of love, loss and living life to the full, with no regrets. It delivers messages of acceptance, resilience and hope and is as relevant today as when first opened on Broadway in 1996.

Harlequin is delighted to be back for their third consecutive year at the Village Theatre with Rent, featuring well known songs such as La Vie Boheme, Out Tonight and Seasons of Love.

Available to book online or by calling East Kilbride Arts Centre on 01355 261000.

Cost: Wed/Sat matinee £17, Thurs £18 and Fri/Sat £20

An Arts Enigma Theatre production.

Written by Paul Macbeth.
Directed by Paul Moore.

Never lose the dream...

It’s 1968 and The Fab Four are at the top of the charts. In Glasgow’s East End six schoolboys are about to move on to University and the university of life (or a wife!) but harbour a dream of becoming “The Sensational Six” with their love of The Beatles, The Stones and all the songs that are Top of The Pops. Songs of love’s young dreams and dreamers.

Will they be Top of The Pops...or will their schoolboy ways turn their dreams into a nightmare? Will they be a hit, or will the reality of tenement life make them miss out?

Full of 60s throwbacks and 60s sounds, including original songs by the band, this is a charmingly funny and poignant, but true story.

Available to book online or by calling East Kilbride Arts Centre on 01355 261000.

Cost: £16.00

 

Artie is bringing the original Singing Kettles packed full of clues to his Greatest Hits. “Spout, handle, lid of metal, What’s inside the Singing Kettle?”  A whole bunch of songs that will take adults on a nostalgic trip back to their youth and entertain a whole new generation of children too.

“Bunny Fou Fou”, “Aiken Drum”, “Ten in the Bed” or “The Eelly Alley O”.  Which one would be in your Top Ten?

Bring Granny too and we’ll promise not to “Shove Granny Aff the Bus”.

Dress up in your favourite colour when you come to the show.

Available to book online or by calling Rutherglen Town Hall on 0141 613 5700.

Cost: £12.00

Fall in love again with the timeless music of Burt Bacharach in this dazzling tribute to one of the 20th century’s best-loved songwriters. Bacharach’s songs defined the music of a generation, creating the iconic sounds of the 60s, 70s and beyond with lyricist Hal David for some of the biggest recording artists of all time including Dionne Warwick, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones and The Carpenters; his later collaborations with Elvis Costello introduced him to a whole new generation of worldwide fans.

Now experience his finest hits, performed live by incredible West End vocalists and the sensational Magic Moments Orchestra, as Back To Bacharach takes you on a moving musical journey through some of the greatest masterpieces in the Bacharach songbook.

Available to book online or by calling East Kilbride Arts Centre on 01355 261000.

Cost: £26.00 (subject to £1.50 transaction fee)