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Music song Theatre Win! High culture with Stephen Fry
Rickie Lee Jones book The Tiger Who Came to Tea ICKETS HAVE just gone on 'Gods' charts the creation of the

Kicks UK tour Tsale for Stephen Fry's first UK Cosmos and the primordial deities;
the bloody interbreeding and family
tour in more than 40 years.
Greedy tiger earns his stripes on tour writer's show Mythos: A Trilogy Olympians – Zeus, Hera, Apollo,
The comedian, actor and feuding that led to the rise of the
– Gods. Heroes. Men opens at the Athena, Hermes and the rest; and
Edinburgh International Festival the creation of Humankind.
ELEBRATING MORE than 50 years as interactive fun. The show travels to venues when they said they'd publish it. I certainly on August 19. 'Heroes' chronicles the feats,
CBritain's best-loved picture book, The including Watford, Malvern, Aylesbury, had no idea that it would be the success it It sees Fry (pictured) telling quests, love affairs, betrayals
Tiger Who Came to Tea, based on the book Bromley, Southend, Crewe, Port Talbot and has become. some of the world's greatest and triumphs of the
by author and illustrator Judith Kerr, is now Bridlington. "Quite often we went to the zoo. In those stories and the tour Great Heroes. Perseus,
on a nationwide tour. days, before David Attenborough, it was the runs across the UK Theseus and Heracles
It has been adapted and directed by udith Kerr (pictured below) celebrated only way you could see animals. We found until September 23 in strive against the odds
David Wood as a treat for the whole family, Jher 95th birthday last year. Her books the tigers just so incredibly beautiful." Gateshead. – and sometimes
and a purr-fect introduction to theatre for include the semi-autobiographical When Kerr said she enjoys illustrating more TEA RRIFIC: Sophie is thrilled to meet the tiger, but doesn't bargain on his huge appetite PHOTO: ROBERT DAY Mythos – Greek for the gods – to rid the
children aged three and above. Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which gives a than writing. 'story' – is split into world of the mythical
The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her child's-eye view of World War II. Born in "I always wanted to draw from a young three shows and is beasts and monsters.
Mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could Germany, and from a Jewish background, age and I can't remember a time when I Win show tickets See author live loosely scripted, giving 'Men' tells the tale
it possibly be? What they certainly don't Kerr and her family came to Britain in 1933 didn't want to. Even now, I try to the audience a chance to of the founding of Troy,
expect to see at the door is a big furry, stripy during the rise of the Nazis. draw every day if I can. FOR YOUR chance to win four tickets to see JUDITH KERR is appearing at Aylesbury's hear Fry's signature wit and the abduction of Helen
tiger. She revealed that The Tiger Who Came "I loved to read fairytales as The Tiger Who Came to Tea on Saturday, June WhizzFizzFest event on June 22. She will be in humour in action. and the gathering of the last
When they welcome the hungry big cat to Tea was created as a bedtime story for a child, particularly when they 8 at 2pm at Aylesbury's Waterside Theatre, conversation about drawing, her childhood and The audience will help choose great generation of Greek heroes to
to tea, he proceeds to eat all the sandwiches, her three-year-old daughter. were illustrated." simply tell us what a baby tiger is called: her latest book with film-maker Jill Nicholls which tales to tell – making Mythos rescue her: Agamemnon, Menelaus,
buns, biscuits and more. He even manages She explained: "I'd made up She added: "I think I must have a) Kitten b) Cub c) Calf who directed the BBC Imagine documentary a different show every time. Achilles and Odysseus. The Trojan
to drink all the water in the tap. What will other stories for her but this was a good memory as I remember Email your answer, marked Tiger about Judith's life in 2013. The event will take Fry said: "I am shivering and War and Odysseus' epic journey
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN: Jones was inspired by the 1960s AM radio tunes of her youth Sophie's Daddy say when he gets home? the one my daughter liked best. such a lot of my own childhood competition, to: competitions@rafnews.co.uk place in the main marquee at 2pm and is suitable quivering with excitement at the end the age when the Olympians
and especially the time leaving or post it to: RAF News, Room 58, Lancaster for ages nine and over. Tickets from £5.
Join the tiger, Sophie and her Mummy She used to say ‘Talk the tiger!’
thought of a UK tour, taking the
still moved among Humankind.
Jones gets her Kicks and Daddy, in this musical slice of teatime and so I told it so many times. I Germany and coming to Building, HQ Air Command, High Wycombe, ■ Go to: tigerstealive.com for tour details. astounding stories and characters ■ Go to: stephenfrymythoslive.
mayhem with sing-a-long songs, magic and was very pleasantly surprised
from Greek myth around the UK."
com for ticket details.
Paris and London."
HP14 4UE, to arrive by May 31.
from pop, rock & jazz The Big Event Amélie The Musical Glitter
ball
Success tastes so sweet uccess tastes so sweet
ICKIE LEE JONES releases and the most sophisticated singer- star
Rher newest collection of songs songwriters of the day forming FRUITY: Like
FRUITY: Like
from the great American songbook, their genre. S her character
her character
Kicks, next month. The album “Radio was a college education Amélie, Audrey
Amélie, Audrey
spans two decades (1950s-70s) of for a budding musician because just can't get
just can't get
enough of
enough of
for Danny and Audrey
pop, rock and jazz, presenting her these songs are all playing on my raspberries
raspberries
interpretations of classic songs. internal radio all the time. It's not a
The singer-songwriter, whose stretch for me to put them together for Danny and Audrey
most famous hit is Chuck E’s In on an LP. Really, I just love to sing.”
Love, will tour the USA for most of Kicks was created entirely in New
June and plans are being made for a Orleans, using local musicians,
UK live show this summer. mixers and studios. Produced by
Weaving the connection Rickie Lee Jones with her band-
M
between 70s rock and 50s jazz mate, vibraphonist Mike Dillion, it Mac attacks new role as his star continues to ascendac attacks new role as his star continues to ascend
was no leap for Jones. It is all part features 10 songs including Elton
of what I heard growing up,” she John’s My Father’s Gun; Mack The
said. “The radio played everything. Knife, made famous by Bobby EST END performer, Strictly Come
1960s AM radio was the primordial Darin; and You’re Nobody Till Dancing favourite and TV actor
zone for our musical life today. As Somebody Loves You, made famous WDanny Mac is now starring in Amélie
a kid I heard R&B, country, rock, by Dean Martin. The Musical, based on the Oscar-nominated
film.
Mac joins French-Canadian stage and screen
Music Album star Audrey Brisson as Amélie for the UK tour
Divine Comedy & tour of the show that runs until the autumn.
Danny plays the sweet daydreamer Nino
Office Politics Quincampoix in the much-loved story
about the imaginative and shy romantic
Hannon Squeezes magic Amélie is described as ‘an astonishing young
who has a gift for helping others.
from drab Office Politics woman who lives quietly in the world, but
loudly in her mind.’
but
improvises
small,
secretly
She
extraordinary acts of kindness that bring
IVINE COMEDY, fronted Hannon, it features guest vocals happiness to those around her. But when a
Dby Northern Irish singer- from Chris Difford of Squeeze. chance at love comes her way, she realises that
songwriter Neil Hannon, release a Office Politics' central characters to find her own contentment she will have to
new album, Office Politics, on are the machines. “I do try to risk everything and say what’s in her heart. GOOD LOOKS: Handsome Danny has many fans DISH OF THE DAY: Audrey Brisson in the musical
June 7. make normal records,” said Danny Mac captured the nation’s hearts and
Hannon, composer of Hannon (pictured), “but it received overwhelming support during his directed by Madonna. She has appeared in TV – and I love raspberries, like Amélie.”– and I love raspberries, like Amélie.”
the theme tunes for hit always seems to wander off time on Strictly in 2016 with a series of perfect shows Outlander and Money and in plays at the Amélie The Musical was first staged was first staged
sitcoms Father Ted and into odd territories.” scores taking him to the final, with professional National Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic. in California in 2015 and when the in California in 2015 and when the
The It Crowd, said: “The Divine Comedy go on partner Oti Mabuse. He is the highest-scoring She described her Amélie colleagues as ‘a UK tour – which visits venues including UK tour – which visits venues including
album has synthesizers. tour in the autumn, (by average) male celebrity ever to appear on brilliantly talented bunch’, adding ‘every day I Dublin, Exeter, High Wycombe, Oxford, Dublin, Exeter, High Wycombe, Oxford,
And songs about kicking off in the programme. am a little more in awe of all of them’. Edinburgh, Bradford, Bournemouth and Edinburgh, Bradford, Bournemouth and
synthesizers. But Dublin on He has appeared in West End shows She said: “My impression of Amélie is a Southampton – concludes the show will Southampton – concludes the show will
don't panic. It October 6 and including Les Misérables and Wicked, played young woman who is filled with massive tour internationally.
also has guitars, finishing at the role of Mark ‘Dodger’ Savage in Channel 4 imagination and dreams and aspirations yet The original film, Le Fabuleux Le Fabuleux
o r c h es t ra s, Manchester's soap Hollyoaks, and starred in the multi award- has a wall stopping her from accessing the real Destin D’Amélie Poulain, released in , released in
accordions, and Albert Hall on winning touring production of Andrew Lloyd world that she would like to intertwine with this 2001, starring Audrey Tautou, is the 2001, starring Audrey Tautou, is the
songs about love October 18. Webber’s Sunset Boulevard. imaginary world. highest-grossinghighest-grossing French-languageFrench-language
and greed.” ■ Go to: the “I am, like Amélie, sometimes struggling to film released in the US to date.
W r i t t en, divinecomedy. udrey’s film credits include Hereafter connect with the world in a normal way. I can ■ Go to: ameliethemusical.com Go to: ameliethemusical.com
produced and com for STAR OF STRICTLY: Danny Mac with his dance partner Oti Mabuse during his appearances in 2016 Adirected by Clint Eastwood and W.E. sometimes be a bit quirky and aloof and clumsy for more information.
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