1990
February 12: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Great British Musicals, with
Paul Arden-Griffith, Evette Davis, Royal Artillery Orchestra, Major Robert Garrity
February 19: In the Mood, with The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Ray McVay, Kaye Sisters,
Tony Mansell, Sarah Gilbertson
February 27-March 3: Postman Pat’s Happy Days, with Don Crann
March 6-17: Evita, with Jacqui Scott, Christopher Corcoran, Michael Bauer, Steven
Hallan, Gemma Lowy, Paula Simpson, Carole Church, Glenn Mayo, Alasdair Macneill,
Bristol School of Dancing pupils
March 18: 60s Golden Greats, with Bobby Vee and The Ricochets, The Searchers, Chris
Montez
March 20: Elkie Brooks - The Inspiration Tour 1990
March 21: The Mission
March 22: Eartha Kitt in Concert, Danny Williams
March 26-31: Matilda, with Annabelle Lanyon, Jonathan Linsley, Tony Howes, Vicky
Blake, Robin Hodson, Katrina Ramsay, Jackie Downey, Robert Karas, Ashley Knight,
Katy Feeney, Paula Tappenden, Michael Berenger, Lisa Pugsley, Megan Shapcott, Paul
Hicks, Juliet Thorneycroft, Bristol School of Dancing pupils
April 3-7: Welsh National Opera Company: Der Freischutz, Der Rosenkavalier, Cosi
fan Tutte, The Barber of Seville, with Mary Callan Clark, Joseph Evans, Phillip Joll,
Rita Cullis, Amanda Roocroft, Constance Fee, Donald Adams, Valerie Masterson, Jean
Stilwell, Gareth Rhys-Davies, Maureen Brathwaite, Neill Archer, Anthony Michaels-Moore,
Kate McCarney, Andrew Shore, Anthony Negus, Derek Clark, Carlo Rizzi
April 8: The Notting Hillbillies - Mark Knopfler, Brendan Croker, Steve Phillips,
Guy Fletcher
April 9-14: “Shirley Valentine”, with Kate Fitzgerald
April 17-21: Gang Show Ninety at Eastertime
April 22: The Hollies
April 23-24: The Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake Act II, Giselle Act II, The
Sleeping Beauty pas de deux, divertissements from Spartacus, Don Quixote, La Fille
mal Gardée, The Flames of Paris, Gopak, Le Corsaire, The Golden Age, La Esmeralda,
Romeo and Juliet, with Natalya Bessmertnova, Yuri Vasyuchenko, Maria Bylova, Anatoli
Kucheruk, Natalya Arkhipova, Mikhail Tsivin, Tatiana Golikova, Yuri Klevtsov, Tatiana
Bessmertnova, Inna Petrova, Marina Kotova, Nadejda Gracheva, Boris Efimov
April 25: Hale and Pace on Tour
April 26: Gilbert O’Sullivan - In the Key of G
April 27-28: Jasper Carrott in Concert
April 29: Freddie Starr
April 30-May 5: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, with Philip Creasy,
Susan Gorton, Marilyn Hill Smith, Alan Oke, John Rath, James Meek, Michael Ducarel,
Eric Roberts
May 6: The Bishop of Bristol’s Urban Fund Youth Extravaganza, with Leslie Crowther
May 9-12 (daytime): Noddy, with Marie Clifford
May 13: Roy “Chubby” Brown
May 14-19: Victoria Wood
May 21-26: English National Ballet: Romeo and Juliet, with Susan Hogard, Maximiliano
Guerra, Josephine Jewkes, Tim Almaas, Pablo Savoye, Maria Teresa del Real
May 29-June 23: Chess, with Rebecca Storm, Richard Barnes, Maurice Clarke, Linda-Mae
Brewer, Brett Forrest, Malcolm Rivers, Paul Haley, Kevin Amos
June 17: James Galway, The Chieftains in Concert, Jean Butler
June 24: Hold Tight it’s 60s Night, with Mike Holoway, Dave Dale, The Coarsettes
June 27: Olde Tyme Music Hall, with Bryan Johnson, Julian Trent, The Gaiety Dancers,
Johnny Dallas, Barbara Jackson
July 1: Joan Armatrading in Concert
July 3-7: Welsh National Opera Company: Otello, Tornrak, The Barber of Seville, Cosi
fan Tutte, with Jeffrey Lawton, Donald Maxwell, Faith Esham, Penelope Walker, Andrew
Shore, Kate McCarney, Neill Archer, Peter Savidge, Bryn Terfel, Gunnar Gudbjornsson,
Anne Mason, Janice Watson, Anne Dawson, Richard Armstrong, Anthony Negus
July 9-14: Blues in the Night, with Stephanie Lawrence, Miquel Brown, Precious Wilson,
Ewen Cummins, Joseph Morley
July 17-21: The Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet, London Gala Orchestra: Giselle Act II,
Swan Lake Act II, Golden Age Adagio, Don Giovanni, Le Corsaire, with Natalya Bessmertnova,
Nadezhda Gracheva, Anatoli Kucheruk, Irina Pyatkina, Leonid Nikonov, Mikhail Tsivin,
Igor Yurlov
July 23: Holsten Live, with Emo Philips, Judy Tenuta
July 24: Aztec Camera
July 27: An Evening with Des O’Connor, Colin Keyes
July 30-August 4: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with Richard Swerrun,
Sarah Buckley, Peter Lawrence, Dave Mayberry, Laura Webb, Shaun Simms, Robert Woodall,
Darren Clewlow, Ashley Keech, Stephen Leatherland, Joe Connors, Nik Stoter, Richard
Kort, Neil Wood, Paul Tate, David Lane, Bristol School of Dancing pupils
August 6-11: The American Phantom of the Opera - A Love Story, with James Horan
August 12: A Summer’s Evening with Barbara Dickson
August 13-18: Three Men in a Boat, with Arthur Bostrom, Paul Alexander, Stuart Harrison,
Susan Beresford, Charlotte Collingwood, Michael Haughey, Neal Swettenham
August 19: Trev and Simon’s Stupid Tour, with Fat and Frantic, Paul Morocco, Glass
August 28-October 13: 42nd Street, with Jenna Ward, Richard Cuerden, Kenneth Nelson,
Elaine Loudon, Meg Johnson, Robert Farrant, Peter Aylin, Robert Wilson, Alison Mellor,
Harry Dickman, Alan Forrester, Ralph Lawton, Simon Lowe
September 2: Russ Conway’s Birthday Charity Gala Concert, with Russ Conway, Roy Hudd,
Lionel Bart, Rolf Harris, Dennis Lotis, Rosemary Squires, Joan Regan, Gary Lovini,
Jess Conrad, Korgis, Cindy Stratton, Sheila Southern, Louise Plowright, Melvyn Hayes,
Barrie Gosney, Frank Lee, Trevor Fry, Andrew Harvey, Richard Hope-Hawkins, original
Palladium Tiller Girls, in aid of Russ Conway Cancer Fund
September 9: 42nd Street Tap Dancing Competition Final
September 23: The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Patty Andrews
October 2-6: Save the Human, with Whirligig Theatre
October 16-20: Welsh National Opera Company: Carmen, From the House of the Dead,
The Marriage of Figaro, with Jean Stilwell, Gillian Webster, Richard Paul Fink, Jeffrey
Lawton, John Harris, Malcolm Donnelly, Anne Dawson, Bryn Terfel, Juliet Booth, Noel
Espiritu Velasco, Richard Armstrong, Marco Guidarini, John Burdekin
October 21: Shakin’ Stevens
October 22-23: The Shadows
October 24: Daryl Hall and John Oates
October 25: David Essex
October 26: Gene Pitney in Concert
October 29-November 3: English National Ballet: Coppelia, Les Sylphides, Scheherazade,
Etudes, with Renata Calderini, Maurizio Bellezza, Josephine Jewkes, Toomas Edur,
Agnes Oaks, Maria Teresa del Real, Koen Onzia, Andria Hall, Maximiliano Guerra, Tim
Almaas, Alexander Grant, Philippe Arrona, Sarah Marshall, Jane Howarth, Marion van
den Bergh, Louise Hynd, David Frame
November 4: Van Morrison, Georgie Fame
November 5-10: On the Piste, with The Hull Truck Theatre Company - Meriel Scholfield,
Stephen Gough
November 11: Sam Howard in Concert, Kit Morgan
November 13-17: Kiss me Kate, with Bristol Light Opera Club
November 20-December 1: Royal Shakespeare Company, Opera North: Show Boat, with Bruce
Hubbard, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jan Hartley Morris, Richard Halton, Karla Burns, Janie
Dee, Margaret Courtenay, Philip Gould, Marilyn Cutts, Mark Heenehan, Clive Walton,
Anna Daventry, Jacqueline Perkins, Garrick Forbes
December 2: The CLIC ’90 Variety Show, with The Wurzels, Four Pennies, Barry Cryer,
Steve Young, Badger and Co, Floor Technicians, Kaz and the TJs, St Mary’s Players,
Take Two, Rob E Ryan, Patrick Malahide, Andrew Harvey, Sherrie Eugene, Trevor Fry
December 4-8 (daytime): Fireman Sam to the Rescue, with Ian Sinclair
December 4: Foster and Allen Christmas Special, Shawn Cuddy
December 9: Christmas with the Savoy, with Donald Adams, Bristol Savoy Operatic Society
December 10: Gary Glitter’s Gang Show
December 12-15: London Contemporary Dance Theatre: Orfeo, White Heat, Cloven Kingdom,
with Tracy Fitzgerald, Kenneth Tharp, Darshan Singh Bhuller
December 21-February 17: Cinderella, with Michael Barrymore, Annabel Croft, Carmel
McSharry, Helen Jayne, Willie Ross, Frank Williams, Simon Fox, Spencer and Lee Morgan,
Dooby Duck
1991
February 18-23: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Horse and his Boy, with
Felicity Duncan, Kieron Smith, Elizabeth Elvin, David Roberts, James Mathews, Mark
Waghorn, Frank Stirling, Benedikte Faulkner
February 24: a-ha
February 25-March 2: A Slice of Saturday Night, with Gary Glitter
March 5-9: Rainbow, with Geoffrey Hayes, Zippy, George and Bungle
March 11: Bernard Manning, Janice Yorke
March 12: Freddie Jackson
March 15: In the Mood, with Herb Miller Orchestra and Singers, John Miller, Kaye
Sisters
March 16: Vienna Festival Ballet: Swan Lake
March 18-23: The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), with Anthony Pedley, Fiona Grogan, Mary
Ann Coburn
March 24: Mazeppa Ukrainian Cossacks
March 25-30: In the Midnight Hour, with Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band
April 2-6: Avon County Scout Gang Show 1991
April 11 (daytime): Rod, Jane and Freddy on Stage
April 11: The Wonderful West End - Songs from the Shows, with Laurel Ford, John Barr,
Julie Paton, Malcolm Rennie
April 12: Alexander O’Neal
April 13: The Dreamboys
April 14: Hale and Pace, Steve Rawlings, Joe Griffiths
April 16-20: Welsh National Opera Company: La Fanciulla del West, La Traviata, Count
Ory, Carmen, with Suzanne Murphy, Donald Maxwell, Frances Ginzer, Peter Bronder,
Neville Ackerman, Janice Watson, Peter Rose, Bonaventura Bottone, Jean Stilwell,
Julian Smith, Carlo Rizzi, Andrew Greenwood, Gareth Jones
April 22-27: English National Ballet: The Taming of the Shrew, with Renata Calderini,
Maurizio Bellezza, Agnes Oaks, Thomas Edur, Philippe Arrona, Dominic Hickie, Tim
Almaas, Graham Bond
April 28: Roy “Chubby” Brown
April 29-30: Phil Cool, Nothing by Chance
May 2: National Music and Dance Ensemble of Romania
May 3-4: Shirley Bassey
May 5: Freddie Starr
May 9: Will Downing
May 10: Nureyev and Friends: The Lesson, The Moor’s Pavane, The Dying Swan, The Sleeping
Beauty highlights, with Rudolf Nureyev, Vivi Flindt, Evelyn Desutter, Giorgio Madia,
Maria Brissonskaya, Alexander Bogatiriev, Galini Kraftschenko, Loretta Bartoussiavitchoute,
Jelena Kamenskich, Andrei Musorin, Walerij Lantratov, Margarita Levina, Jefenda Usowa,
Timur Faisiev
May 11: The Chippendales
May 12: Jim Davidson on Tour
May 13-18: Shirley Valentine, with Pamela Powers
May 20-25: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, with Jill Pert, Elizabeth
Woollett, Russell Dixon
May 27-June 1: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with David Anthony,
Dave Mayberry, Tony Allison, Alan Gear
June 3-8: Grease, with Jacinta Whyte, Mark Jardine, Stephen Tremblay, Debbie Andrews
June 11-15: Welsh National Opera Company: Count Ory, Rigoletto, Salome, La Traviata,
with Bonaventura Bottone, Janice Watson, Peter Rose, Richard Paul Fink, Alexandrina
Pendachanska, Frances Ginzer, David Owen, David Barrell, Stephanie Sundine, Carlo
Rizzi, Gareth Jones
June 18-22: English Shakespeare Company: The Winter’s Tale, Coriolanus, with James
Hayes, Michael Pennington, Lynn Farleigh, June Watson, Andrew Jarvis
June 23-24: James Last and his Orchestra
June 26-28: Adonis - Men of Hollywood
July 1-6: Beyond Reasonable Doubt, with Barbara Murray, Francis Matthews
July 8-13: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Hobson’s Choice, La Fille mal Gardée, with Michael
O’Hare, Karen Donovan, Miyako Yoshida, Graham Lustig, Vincent Redmon, Desmond Kelly,
Sandra Madgwick, Joseph Cipolla, Kevin O’Hare, Stephen Lade, Royal Ballet Sinfonia
July 23-27: Jamaica Inn, with William Gaunt, Giles Watling, Peter Byrne, Lisa Hopkins,
Mollie Savile, Helen Dorward, Jack Hulland, Frank Taylor, Graham McTavish
July 29-August 3: Lettice and Lovage, with Christina Greatrex, Zena Walker, Kenneth
Hadley, Jenny Tomasin
August 5-10: Ladies’ Night, with Samantha Hughes, Jack Seymour, Nicholas Rylance,
Paul McNeilly, Steve Weston, Andrew Goth, James Aden, Adam Maxwell
August 6-10 (daytime): Pinocchio, with Stephen Frazier-Mills, Peter Robbins, Scott
Howard, Amanda Burdett, Nigel Ellacott, Michael Morgan, Zimon Drake, Jacqueline Turnbull,
Angela Peterson, Michael Topping
August 12-17: The Cotton Club, with Madeline Bell, Chip Garnett, Grace Kennedy, Marilyn
J Johnson, Britt Wilson, Marcel Peneux, Harlem Hoppers, Harlem Orchestra
August 19-24: Cider with Rosie, with Birmingham Rep - Polly James, Peter McEnery
August 26: Lenny Henry
August 27-28: The Chippendales
August 31: The Ken Dodd Laughter Show, with Ken Dodd, Annabel, Paul Connor, Judy
Moxon, Nigel Hogg, Kenneth Adams
September 1: Russ Conway Cancer Fund Charity Gala ’91, with Russ Conway, Bob Monkhouse,
Larry Grayson, Rolf Harris, Roy Hudd, Sue Nicholls, Mark Eden, Susan Maughan, Lyn
Paul, Ruby Murray, Ronnie Hilton, Vanderbilt and Bergdorff, Joan Hinde, Dave Prowse,
Richard Hope-Hawkins, Great Western Chorus, 1960s Tiller Girls
September 2-7: Little Shop of Horrors, with Bonnie Langford, Jonathan Kiley
September 11-October 19: Barnum, with Paul Nicholas, Carol Duffy, Clara Miller, Richard
Gauntlett, Nicolas Blackman, Simon David Trout, Simon Lowe
September 17-21 (daytime): The Gingerbread Man, with Rob Hughes, Whirligig Theatre
October 21-26: Moscow City Ballet and stars from Bolshoi and Kirov Ballets: Swan
Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, with Ludmilla Semenyaka, Galina Mezentseva, Natalia
Yakovleva, Sergei Gorbachev, Vladimir Tchigirev, Alexandr Korenek, Yelena Pankova,
Alexandr Vedernikov, National Ballet Orchestra
October 27: The Chieftains in Concert
October 28: Dr Hook
October 30-November 2: London Contemporary Dance Theatre: Wind Devil, Freedom of
Information, Rikud, with Helen Beatty, Kate Coyne, Peter Dunleavy, Elizabeth Fancourt,
Tracey Fitzgerald, David Hughes, Bernadette Iglich, Paul Liburd, Isabel Mortimer,
Leesa Phillips, Andrew Robinson, Isabel Tamen, Kenneth Tharp, Tom Ward, Sheron Wray,
Ben Wright
November 4-9: English National Ballet: Onegin, Les Sylphides, Prince Igor Polovtsian
Dances, Anne Frank, with Josephine Jewkes, Maurizio Bellezza, Agnes Oaks
November 10: CLIC ’91, with Alvin Stardust, Hugh Cornwell, Sweet Substitute, Roger
Cook and Roger Greenaway, Floor Technicians, Andrew Harvey, Great Western Chorus,
Dave and Amos, Rob E Ryan, Mervyn Jaye, Take Two, St Mary’s Players
November 12-16: Hello, Dolly!, with Bristol Light Opera Club
November 17: Russian State Ballet: scenes from Swan Lake, Walpurgis Night, Le Corsaire,
La Sylphide, Paganini, Flames of Paris, The Nutcracker, Fairy of Dolls, Paquita,
with Vyacheslav Gordeyev’s company
November 19-23: Welsh National Opera Company: Idomeneo, Die Fledermaus, Rigoletto,
with Rebecca Evans, Suzanne Murphy, John Mark Ainsley, Linda Kitchen, Peter Bronder,
Dennis O’Neill, Janice Watson, Christopher Goldsack, Peter Sidhom, Mary Callan Clarke,
Ashley Thorburn, Claude-Robin Pelletier, Anthony Negus, Sir Charles Mackerras
November 24: The Hollies in Concert
November 27-December 14: Some Like it Hot, with Tommy Steele, Billy Boyle, Mandy
Perryment, Royce Mills, Veronica Clifford, Edward Phillips, Barrie Bignold
December 1: Richard Digance UK Tour ’91, Hilary O’Neill
December 15: Christmas with the Savoy, with Donald Adams, Bristol Savoy Operatic
Society
December 20-February 16: Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, with Frank Bruno,
Little and Large, Frankie Desmond, Forbes Collins, Patsy Ann Scott, Sarah Thomas,
Damien Williams, Phil Rose, Tony Monroe, Ben Richards, Waterfall Rapids Spectacular
1992
February 10: A Night on Broadway, with Andrew Hambly-Smith, in aid of The National
Meningitis Trust
February 18-22: The Rocky Horror Show, with Peter Blake, Stephen Thiebault, Zalie
Burrow, Paul Reeves, Penelope McGhie
February 23: In the Mood, with Herb Miller Orchestra and Singers, John Miller, Kaye
Sisters, Fiona Page
February 24-29: Straight and Narrow, with Nicholas Lyndhurst, Carmel McSharry, Neil
Daglish, Melanie Kilburn, Anna Keaveney, Peter Jonfield, John Hartley
March 2-7: Reflected Glory, with Albert Finney, Stephen Moore, Nicky Henson, Mark
Tandy, Katherine O’Toole, Stephen Greif, Holly Wilson
March 11-21: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, with Joe Lutton, Basienka Blake
March 22: Sweet and Mud in Concert
March 23: Jethro Tull
March 24-25: Tired and Emotional, with Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones
March 26: Hollywood and Broadway - The Musicals, with Wayne Sleep, Lorna Luft, Michael
Howe, Anthony Clegg, Michael DeSouter, Sue Eastwood, Jenny Thomas, Donna Wirwood,
Alexandra Worrall, Colin Freeman
March 27: Stages ’92 - Annual Avon Schools Dance Production Gala Show, in presence
of Prince Edward
March 28: Jethro, The Wurzels
March 30-April 4: The Royal Ballet: Manon, Monotones, Winter Dreams, Symphony in
C, with Viviana Durante, Darcey Bussell, Irek Mukhamedov, Anthony Dowell
April 5: ’60s Golden Greats, with Bobby Vee, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Tommy Roe
April 7-11: Welsh National Opera Company: Pelleas et Melisande, The Magic Flute,
Ernani, with Alison Hagley, Donald Maxwell, Neill Archer, David Owen, Janice Watson,
Suzanne Murphy, Alastair Miles, Malcolm Donnelly, Paolo Kudriavchenko, Pierre Boulez,
Marco Guidarini, Richard Armstrong
April 12: Freddie Starr
April 13-18: A Slice of Saturday Night, with Alvin Stardust
April 21-25: Avon County Scout Gang Show
April 26: Trev and Simon World Tour 1992, Paul Morocco
April 28-May 2: The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)
May 4-9: English National Ballet: Cinderella, with Agnes Oaks, Ludmila Semeniaka,
Tim Almaas, Josephine Jewkes, Renata Calderini, Maurizio Belezza, Philippe Arrona,
James Supervia, Dominic Hickie, Darryl Norton, Freya Dominic, Monica Perego, Jane
Haworth, Elizabeth Pacey, Aaron Watkin, Daryl Griffith
May 12-30: My Fair Lady, with Edward Fox, Helen Hobson, Michael Medwin, Sheila Burrell,
Bryan Pringle, Nick Barnard
May 17: Kevin Bloody Wilson
May 31: Olde Tyme Music Hall, with Bristol Light Opera Club
June 2-6: The Worst Witch, with Vicky Blake
June 7: The Bernard Manning Show
June 8-10: The Chippendales
June 13: Barbara Dickson in Concert
June 15-20: The Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake Act II, Giselle Act II, Coppelia,
Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Raymonda, The Nutcracker, Spring Waters, Hopak, Paquita,
La Esmeralda, La Fille mal Gardée, with Natalya Bessmertnova, Boris Efimov, Natalya
Arkhipova, Yuri Vladimirov, Maria Bylova
June 21: The Magic of the Musicals, with Marti Webb, Mark Rattray
June 23-27: Welsh National Opera Company: Iphigénie en Tauride, Madame Butterfly,
Ernani, with Diana Montague, Simon Keenlyside, Helen Field, Suzanne Murphy, Peter
Bronder, Edmund Barham, Robert Hayward, David Barrell, Rosalind Sutherland, Colenton
Freeman, Anthony Negus, Gareth Jones
June 29: Wax Acts, with Ruby Wax
July 2: Showaddywaddy
July 4: Simon Drake’s Secret Cabaret, Lee Evans
July 7-11: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with Helen Jayne, Mike Evans, Lloyd Thompson,
Patrick Dean Waters, Joanne Prior, Moira Campbell Dancing Academy pupils
July 13-18: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Romeo and Juliet, Dark Horizons, Card Game,
Choreartium, with Marion Tait, Joseph Cipolla, Sandra Madgwick, Samira Saidi, Petter
Jacobsson, Sherilyn Kennedy, Michael O’Hare, Samuel Armstrong, Paul Bayes-Kitcher,
James Bailey, Dunca de Gruchy, Toby Norman-Wright, Peter Ottevanger, Thomas Paton,
Barry Wordsworth, Philip Ellis, Royal Ballet Sinfonia
July 21-25 (daytime): Postman Pat’s Special Delivery
July 23-24: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, with Michael Crawford, Juliet Lambert,
Cathy Porter, Tami Tappan, Gay Willis, Sharon Brown
July 26: The Utterly Brilliant Timmy Mallett Show
July 27-August 1: Macbeth, with Paul Darrow, Pamela Salem, Jack Smethurst
August 3-8: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Gilbert and Sullivan, with John Rath, Lesley
Echo Ross, Fenton Gray, Jill Pert
August 10-12: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with Peter Simons
August 14-15: The Chippendales
August 19: Carl Perkins Classic Rock ‘n’ Roll Tour, with Carl Perkins, Scotty Moore,
Johnny Earl, Jordanaires, D J Fontana, Tony Rivers, Mick Clarke
August 23: Russ Conway and Friends: Third Annual Charity Gala, with Russ Conway,
Roy Hudd, Marian Montgomery, Anita Harris, Kenny Clayton, Bill Pertwee, Roger De
Courcey, Paul Melba, Peter Goodwright, Frank Lee, James Pertwee, Jeannette Richmond,
Paul McGann, Frazer Hines, Trevor Fry, Mark Curry, Dotty Wayne, Laurie Holloway,
John Telfer, Sam Mason, Jenny Lacey, Richard Hope-Hawkins, Sylvia Young Theatre School
dancers, Don Shearman’s Orchestra
August 24-29: Witness for the Prosecution, with Derek Waring, Giles Watling, Prunella
Gee
September 1-5: That Old Minstrel Magic, with Les Want, Paul Arden-Griffith, Glyn
Dawson, Cheryl Taylor
September 15-19: Bazaar and Rummage, with Jill Gascoine, Sophie Lawrence, Anna Karen,
Debbie Arnold, Genevieve Walsh
September 22: Stars from the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballets: Swan Lake, with Lyubov Kunakova,
Denis Muruev, Igor Soloviev, Yevgeni Neff, Ludmilla Kunakova, Tatjana Golikova, Mikhail
Tsivin, Alexander Bogatiriev, Nadejda Pavlova, National Ballet of St Petersburg Grand
Corps of Ballet
September 24 (daytime): Rod, Jane and Freddy on Stage
September 24: Tutti Frutti
September 25: Houghton Weavers
September 26: The No Limits Tour - The Comedy Store Players, with Paul Merton, Neil
Mullarkey, Jim Sweeney, Sandi Toksvig, Josie Lawrence, Richard Vranch
September 27: Andrew Newton
September 28-October 3: An Evening with Gary Lineker, with Ann Bryson, Andrew Hall,
Steven Hartley, Paul Venables, Hilary Welles
October 5: That’ll be the Day, with Trevor Payne, Gary Anderson, Paul Da Vinci, Joanna
James, Lorayne Robinson
October 6: Roger Whittaker in Concert, David Fraser
October 10: Gene Pitney in Concert
October 11: Petula Clark
October 13-17: English Shakespeare Company: Macbeth, The Tempest, with Tony Haygarth,
Lynn Farleigh
October 18: Jethro, Wurzels
October 20-24: Welsh National Opera Company: Tosca, Elektra, The Barber of Seville,
with Suzanne Murphy, Dennis O’Neill, Peter Sidhom, Janet Hardy, Felicity Palmer,
Andrew Shore, Fiona Janes, Simon Keenlyside, Carlo Rizzi
October 25: Andrew Newton
October 27-31: The Witches, with Karen Briffett, Janet Whiteside, Dorothy Ann Gould,
Adam Stafford
November 2-7: Jasper Carrott, Phil Cool
November 6-7 (daytime): The Trotters Bottom Firefighters Show, with Welephant
November 9-14: English National Ballet: The Nutcracker, with Agnes Oaks, Thomas Edur,
Kevin Richmond, Renata Calderini, Maurizio Bellezza
November 16: Jimmy Jones
November 17: Punt and Dennis - The Milky Milky Tour
November 18: An Evening with Joe Longthorne, Bradley Walsh
November 19: James Byrne
November 20: Andrew Newton Christmas Special
November 21: Shakin’ Stevens, Bill Paul
November 24-28: The Rocky Horror Show, with Elizabeth Carling, Matthew Cammelle,
Eddie Kirby
November 29: Jethro’s Christmas Show
December 1-5: Pickwick, with Bristol Light Opera Club
December 6: The Spinners’ Christmas Reunion Tour
December 7-12: Moscow City Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty, with Svetlana Filippova,
Ludmilla Nerubashenko, Elvira Rikova, Evgeny Mamrenko, Julia Snegurova
December 13: Christmas with the Savoy, with Bristol Savoy Operatic Society, Paddy
Payne Dancers
December 18-January 31: Jack and the Beanstalk, with John Inman, Billy Pearce, Emily
Symons, Geoffrey Hayes, Bungle, Zippy and George from Rainbow, The Fabulous Dancing
Waters
1993
February 3-27: Me and My Girl, with Gary Wilmot, Jessica Martin, Nicholas Smith,
Patsy Rowlands, Derek Beard, Nigel Leach, Sarah Payne, Peter Schofield, Jim Wiggins,
Peter Honri, Clare Welch, Audrey Leybourne, Rosalind McCutcheon, Rob Mitchell
March 1-6: Return to the Forbidden Planet, with Gemma Lowry, Frido Ruth, Patrick
Moore, Stuart Nurse, Peter Alexander, Marcos d’Cruze, Rebecca Wright, Simon Jessop,
Jane Milligan, Clive Fishlock, Jill Myers, Johnson Willis, Thomas Frere, Kate Edgar
March 7: CLIC ’93, with Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, Madeline Bell, Marmalade,
Andrew Harvey, Rob E Ryan, Caprice, Jerry Thomas, Dennis Walker, Julie Thursday,
Dave and Amos
March 9-13: Welsh National Opera Company: Un Ballo in Maschera, La Boheme, La Favorita,
Tristan und Isolde, with Christine Teare, Glenville Hargreaves, Richard Margison,
Mary Callan Clarke, Paul Charles Clarke, Alwyn Mellor, Jason Howard, Bonaventura
Bottone, Bernadette Cullen, Jeffrey Lawton, Anne Evans, Carlo Rizzi, Sir Charles
Mackerras
March 14: Andrew Newton
March 16-17: Ben Elton in Concert
March 18: Living Country Legends - Slim Whitman, Byron Whitman, George Hamilton IV,
Sandy Kelly
March 20: The Brian Conley Tour ’93
March 23-27: Avon County Scout Gang Show 21st Celebration
March 30-April 17: Aspects of Love, with Gary Bond, Kathryn Evans, Alexander Hanson,
Karen Skinns, Paul Bentley, Lottie Mayor, Angela Lloyd, Alistair Robins, Helen Viner-Slater,
Fiz Shapur
April 18: Kevin Bloody Wilson - The Me and Ewe Tour
April 20-May 1: Good Rockin’ Tonite, with P J Proby, David Carling
April 25: Stages ’93 - Avon Schools’ Dance Production
May 2: Andrew Newton
May 3: Bottom, with Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
May 4-8: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company: Orpheus in the Underworld, The Pirates of Penzance,
with Gareth Jones, Joanne Pullen, Alan Watt, Kathleen Tynan, David Fieldsend, Jill
Pert
May 9: The Hollies 30th Anniversary Tour
May 10-13: An Evening with Victoria Wood
May 14: Neil Sedaka
May 15: Freddie Starr
May 17-22: Elvis - The Musical, with Clayton Mark, Bo Wills, Ian Salisbury, Stephen
J Dean, Glen Harper, Drew Jaymson, Vivienne McMaster, Joanna Michaels, Joanne Rowden,
Steve Serlin, Fiona Sim, Natasha Wright, Joe Young, David Jenkins
May 23: The Archers in Murder at Ambridge Hall, with Trevor Harrison, Felicity Finch,
Terry Molloy, Richard Derrington, Carole Boyd, Rosalind Adams
May 25-29: Fireman Sam, Ready for Action
May 25, 27: Jethro
May 30: An Evening with Julian Clary and Friends, with Russell Churney, Hugh Jelly
June 1: Jimmy Jones
June 2-4: Roy “Chubby” Brown
June 5: Trev and Simon Blimey That’s Good Tour ’93
June 6: Andrew Newton
June 8-12: Welsh National Opera Company: Eugene Onegin, La Boheme, La Favorita, with
Janice Watson, Jason Howard, Peter Rose, Bonaventura Bottone, Bernadette Cullen,
Mary Callan Clarke, Paul Charles Clarke, Alwyn Mellor, Peter Savidge, Andrew Slater,
Martin Higgins, Carlo Rizzi, Julian Smith
June 29-November 13: Cats, with Robin Cousins, Rosemarie Ford, Tony Monopoly, Simon
Rice, Sally Taylor, Tony Timberlake, Wendy Kitching, Paula Simpson, Poppy Tierney,
Emma Priest, Richard Armitage
November 16-20: English National Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty, with Agnes Oaks, Fara
Grieco, Graham Bond
November 21: Andrew Newton
November 22-25: Victoria Wood
November 26-27: That’ll be the Day, with Trevor Payne, Gary Anderson, Paul Da Vinci,
Joanna James, Lorraine Brown
November 28: An Evening of Music, Music, Music - Songs from the Shows, in aid of
Bristol Kidney Patients’ Association
November 30-December 4: Hans Andersen, with Bristol Light Opera Club
December 5 (daytime): Mr Men in Nurseryland
December 5: Andrew Newton Special Christmas Show
December 7-11: Welsh National Opera Company: Falstaff, Cinderella, Lucia di Lammermoor,
with Donald Maxwell, Suzanne Murphy, Rebecca Evans, Pamela Helen Stephen, Felicity
Palmer, Lillian Watson, Janice Watson, Geoffrey Moses, David Barrell, Martin Thompson,
Patrick Fournillier
December 12: Christmas with the Savoy, with Bristol Savoy Operatic Society
December 16-January 23: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with Dana, Andrew O’Connor,
Michael Sands, Ken Gibson, Sulie Branscombe, Anna Blake, Peter Aiton, Bristol School
of Dancing pupils
December 19: Jethro’s Christmas Show
1994
January 27-April 2: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with Phillip Schofield
(Darren Day from March 28), Lisa Peace, Malcolm Rennie, David J Higgins, Robert Purvis
March 6: Andrew Newton
March 13: Jethro
March 20: CLIC 18th Birthday Celebration, with Robin Cousins and the Sutton Youth
Theatre, Orville and Keith Harris, Rosemarie Ford, Marian Montgomery, Madeline Bell,
Darren Day, Ned Sherrin, Joe Brown, Roger Cook, Ross King, Liz Robertson, Louise
Gold, Dawn Spence, Meredith Braun, Gerard Casey, Sylvie Lewis, Lorna Dallas, Norfolk
Mountain Rescue ‘A’ Team, Bristol Ballet School, in presence of The Duchess of Kent
March 27: Jethro
April 5-9: Avon Scouts Gang Show ’94
April 11-16: Return to the Forbidden Planet, with Stuart Nurse, Peter Alexander,
Frido Ruth, Marcos D’Cruze, Rebecca Wright, Simon Jessop, Clive Fishlock, Sarah Whittuck
April 19-23: Welsh National Opera Company: Turandot, Lucia di Lammermoor, Ariodante,
with Mary Jane Johnson, Edmund Barham, Christine Schafer, Barry Banks, Della Jones,
Felicity Palmer, Carlo Rizzi, Julian Smith
April 24: Stages ’94, The Avon Schools’ Dance Production
April 26-30 (some daytime only): Noddy, with Karen Briffett, Eric Potts
April 27: West End Showstoppers, with Hilary O’Neil, Kath Dooley, Mitchell Armstrong,
David Lawrence
April 28: The Solid Silver ’60s Show, with Gerry and the Pacemakers, Helen Shapiro,
Swinging Blue Jeans
May 2-7: What a Show!, with Tommy Steele
May 8 (daytime): The Children’s Show, with Darren Day, Toby Anstis, Andrea Boardman,
Peter Simon, Anthea Turner
May 8: Andrew Newton
May 9-14: Where’s the Birdie?, with Sesame Street Live
May 17-21: The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), with Ruby Evans, Anthony Pedley
May 22: That’ll be the Day, with Trevor Payne, Gary Anderson, Paul Da Vinci, Joanna
James, Lorraine Brown
May 24: Julia Fordham
May 26: Howard Keel in Concert
May 27-28: Freddie Starr
May 31-June 4: Aspects of Love, with Anne Wood, Jay Marcus
June 7-25: Me and My Girl, with Andrew O’Connor, Rebecca Thornhill
June 28-July 2: Godspell, with Felice Arena, Anna Francolini, Dominic Tandy, Karen
Barnes
July 5-9 (daytime): The New Adventures of Postman Pat, with Don Crann, Lisa David,
David Broughton-Davies, Pamela Ashton
July 7: Mike Reid
July 10: Jeff Hooper, Freddy Staff All Star Big Band
July 12-16: Welsh National Opera Company: Der Rosenkavalier, Tosca, La Finta Giardiniera,
with Susan Graham, Franz Hawlata, Suzanne Murphy, Donald Maxwell, Joan Rodgers, Ryland
Davies, Carlo Rizzi
July 17: Isley Brothers
July 19-23: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Swan Lake, Brahms-Handel Variations, Prodigal
Son, Symphony in Three Movements, with Michael O’Hare, Monica Zamora, Andrea Tredinnick,
Rachel Peppin, Jessica Clarke, Dorcas Walters, Yi-Lei Cai, David Dawson, Kevin O’Hare,
Vincent Redmon, Ravenna Tucker, Jillian Mackrill, James Bailey, Joseph Cipolla, Jonathan
Higgins, Paul Murphy
August 1-6: Bath and Wessex Opera: Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, with Peter Sidhom, Anne
Williams-King, Sarah Walker, Gerard Quinn, Peter Bronder, Sally Harrison, Anne Mason,
Klaus Donath, Sir Alexander Gibson, Bournemouth Sinfonietta
August 10-September 10: Plymouth Theatre Royal’s Oklahoma!, with Bonnie Langford,
Sarah-Jane Hassell, Peter Hilton, Nick Wilton, Paul Leonard, Richard Swerrun, Brian
Greene, Dilys Lane, Josefina Gabrielle
September 11: The Concert they Never Gave, with Bernie Jessome, Clayton Mark, Kevin
Pallister
September 13-17: The Rocky Horror Show 21st Birthday Party, with Tony Booth, Sophie
Lawrence, Patricia Quinn
September 18: Andrew Newton Hypnotic Laughter Show
September 20-24: Romanian National Opera: Madama Butterfly, Nabucco, Samson et Dalila,
with Iulia Isaev, Ecaterina Tutu
September 27-October 22: Fiddler on the Roof, with Topol, Sara Kestelman, Jacquelyn
Yorker, Bruce Montague, Adi Topol-Margalith, Tim Flannigan, Jo John, Alicia Davies,
Neil Rutherford
September 29 (daytime): The Michael Faraday All Electric Roadshow, with Johnny Ball
October 2: Fascinating Aida
October 9: Mr Men in Toyland
October 16: An Evening with Brendan Grace
October 23 (daytime): The Rod, Jane and Freddy Show
October 23: The Glenn Miller Orchestra (UK)
October 26-November 5: Buddy, with Angus MacGregor
November 7-12: Five Guys Named Moe, with Tommie Jenkins, Trent Kendall, Monroe Kent
III, Jason Pennycooke, Richard D Sharp, Faruma Williams, Neil McArthur
November 15-19: Birmingham Royal Ballet: La Fille mal Gardée, Galanteries, Enigma
Variations, Le Tricorne, with Miyako Yoshida, Michael O’Hare, David Morse, Joseph
Cipolla
November 20: The Hollies in Concert
November 22-26: Welsh National Opera Company: Beatrice and Benedict, La Traviata,
Turandot, The Makropoulos Case, with Donald Maxwell, Donald Kaasch, Sara Fulgoni,
Maria Fortuna, John Hudson, Josephine Barstow, John Nelson, Wyn Davies
November 29-December 3: 42nd Street, with Bristol Light Opera Club
December 4-6: Roy “Chubby” Brown, Quill
December 7: That’ll be the Day Christmas Special, with Trevor Payne, Gary Anderson,
Morgan Turner, Joanna James, Lorraine Brown, Julia Greenham, Iain Hawkins
December 8-10 (daytime): Playdays Live on Stage
December 8-9: An Evening of Nonsense with Jethro
December 10: Andrew Newton Hypnotic Laughter Show
December 11: Christmas with the Savoy, with Bristol Savoy Operatic Society
December 13-18: The Chinese State Circus
December 21-February 4: Pickwick - The Musical, with Sir Harry Secombe, Ruth Madoc,
Glyn Houston, David Cardy, Ray C Davis, Michael Howe, Peter Land, Robert Meadmore,
Kevin A J Ranson, Katy Secombe, Ian Macpherson, Bristol School of Dancing pupils
December 26-January 15 (daytime): Postman Pat’s Happy Christmas Show, with Roger
Dean
1995
January 22: The Kings of Swing in Concert, with Joe Loss Big Band, Todd Miller, Jasmine
Day, Shelly Johnstone
February 5: The Late, Late Christmas Variety Show, with Paul McKenna, Faith Brown,
Martin Daniels, Dino, Caroline Griffin, Frank Starr, Tim Pitman, Phil Charles, Gee
Baby I Love You, Paul Salvage, Amanda Normansell, Simon Perigud, in aid of Frenchay
Hospital (Skin Bank) Appeal
February 6-11: Freak Out!, with Mike Fab-Gere, Jean Genie
February 14-18: Peter Pan, with Toyah Willcox, Frank Finlay, Eileen Battye, Sara
Hillier, Brian Parr, Tom Stammers, Daniel Northover, Janice Adnett, Micky Silver,
Jonathan Bex, Menzah Brothers, Paul Smith, Kirby’s Flying Ballet
February 19: Mike Reid - Live and Uncensored
February 20-25: Moscow City Ballet: The Nutcracker, Cinderella, with Natalia Shelokova,
Evgenia Vorobieva, Dimitri Romanov, Ivor Shavruk
February 27-March 4: English National Ballet: Romeo and Juliet, with Lisa Pavane,
Thomas Edur
March 5: Avon Dance Stages 1995
March 7-11: Welsh National Opera Company: Le Nozze di Figaro, The Yeomen of the Guard,
with Rebecca Evans, Donald Adams, Susan McCulloch, Roberto Scaltriti, Jason Howard,
Sheri Greenawald, Donald Maxwell, Richard Stuart, Gareth Jones
March 15-April 15: Singin’ in the Rain, with Paul Nicholas, Shona Lindsay, Tony Howes,
Sarah Payne, Barry J Gordon, Matt Zimmerman, Jean Challis, Sebastien Torkia, Mark
Pollard, Mark Donovan, Pauline Walker, Suzanna John-David, Louisa Landon, Alasdair
MacNeill
March 26: The Good Olde Days, with John Inman, Brian Eames, Clinton Ford, John Bouchier,
Pete Lindup, Van Buren and Kim, Gaiety Girls
April 2: Eddie Izzard Unrepeatable
April 9: Jimmy Jones
April 18-22: Avon Scouts Gang Show 1995
April 24-29: Return to the Forbidden Planet
April 30: Jethro, Eddie Large, in aid of Bristol Open Scanner Appeal
May 2-6: Hot Shoe Shuffle, with Louise Plowright
May 7: James Last
May 8-13: Three Steps to Heaven, with Iain Hawkins
May 14: That’ll be the Day, with Trevor Payne, Gary Anderson, Morgan Turner, Joanna
James
May 15-20: Dance, with Wayne Sleep, Ryan Francois, Jenny Thomas
May 23-June 10: “Carmen Jones”, with Patti Boulaye, Grace Kennedy, Ruby Turner, Antoni
Garfield Henry, Blair Wilson, Leon Herbert, Wendy Mae Brown, Maureen Brathwaite,
Simone Sauphanor, Colin Lainchbury-Brown, Horace Oliver, Cornell John, Paul Bateman
June 11: A Concert for CLIC 1995, with Max Bygraves, Roger Cook, Robin Cousins, Bristol
Ballet School dancers
June 19: The Drifters
June 24: The Concert they Never Gave
June 25: Voulez Vous
June 27-July 1: Welsh National Opera Company: Cosi fan Tutte, La Traviata, Elektra,
with Alwyn Mellor, Ann Taylor-Morley, Donald Maxwell, Susannah Waters, Neill Archer,
Nathan Berg, Nuccia Focile, Paul Charles Clarke, Mary Lloyd-Davies, Felicity Palmer,
Clarry Bartha, Mark Wigglesworth
July 2: The Magical World of the Musicals in Concert, with Dave Willetts, Lorna Luft,
Magical Musicals Orchestra and Singers
July 14-15: Freak Out!, with Mike Fab-Gere, Jean Genie, John Mainwaring
July 17-22: What a Show!, with Tommy Steele
July 23: The New Care Bears Magic Show
July 24-26: Russian Navy Spectacular: Music of the Tsars, with Svetlana Volkova,
Leonid Repin, Stanislav Tchassov, Tania Matos, St Petersburg Admiralty Navy Band,
Alexei Karabanov, Kirov Opera singers, Russian Ballet dancers, Ukraine Cossacks,
Moscow State Circus
August 4: A Summer Variety Show, with Ronnie Hayward, Eric Yorke, Yvonne Lloyd, Brian
Pollard, Barry Anthony and Ray Young, David Harper, Mike Pullen
August 13: Syd Lawrence Orchestra and Singers
August 20: Boxing, by satellite: Tyson v McNeeley
August 31: Scrooge Preview, with Anthony Newley
September 5-16: Me and My Girl, with Peter Duncan, Josephine Baird, Ursula Smith,
Julie-Alanah Brighten
September 10: Russ Conway’s 70th Birthday Celebration Variety Music Hall, with Russ
Conway, Bert Weedon, Joan Regan, Peter Goodwright, Peter Baldwin, Mark Mathison,
Jack Gibbons, Richard Wilson, Godfrey James, Anna Dawson, John Boulter, Dennis Lotis,
Trevor Fry, Jenny Lacey, Richard Hope-Hawkins, ’60s Tiller Girls, in aid of Russ
Conway Cancer Fund
September 17: The Melody Lingers On, with Hinge and Bracket
September 18-23: Bottom - The Big Number Two Tour Live, with Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
September 24: Magic - A Tribute to Freddie Mercury and Queen
September 27-October 7: Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, with Angus MacGregor, David
Carling, Alasdair Ross, Nigel Francis, Shane Attwooll, Clare Bonsu, Karen Evans,
Tim Parker, Abigail Hercules
October 3-4 (daytime): The Michael Faraday All Electric Roadshow
October 8 (daytime): Mr Men Alphabet Show
October 8: Jethro
October 10-14: Welsh National Opera Company: Nabucco, Idomeneo, Madame Butterfly,
with Jonathan Summers, Janice Cairns, Sara Fulgoni, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Anthony Rolfe
Johnson, Christine Weidinger, Rebecca Evans, Toby Spence, Donald Braswell, Sylvia
Mitton, Geoffrey Moses, Gareth Jones, Sir Charles Mackerras
October 17-21: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Hobson’s Choice, Birthday Offering, Carmina
Burana, with Michael O’Hare, Leticia Muller, Desmond Kelly, Joseph Cipolla, Kevin
O’Hare, Alain Dubreuil, David Morse, Paul Murphy, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Ex Cathedra
Choir
October 24-28: Guys and Dolls, with Bristol Light Opera Club
October 29: The Glenn Miller Orchestra in Concert
October 30-November 4: Dame Edna Everage: “Look at me when I’m Talking to You!”,
with Barry Humphries, Leigh Constantine
November 5: The Solid Silver ’60s Show, with Bobby Vee and the Ricochettes, Gerry
and the Pacemakers, The Fortunes, Brian Hyland
November 6: Good Olde Days, with Danny La Rue, Steve Barclay, The Holloways
November 7: Richard Digance, Ian Irving
November 11: Andrew Newton
November 13-December 2: Blood Brothers, with David Cassidy, Clodagh Rodgers, Keith
Burns, Tom Fairfoot, Debbie Paul, Sharon Byatt, Peter Watts, Mark Jardine
December 3: Christmas with the Savoy, with Bristol Savoy Operatic Society
December 4: Chas and Dave’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Street Party
December 5: The Fureys in Concert - The Claddagh Road Tour
December 6: West End Showstoppers, with Ben Murphy, Mitchell Armstrong, David Lawrence,
Lorayne Brown
December 7-9: Roy “Chubby” Brown
December 10 (daytime): The White Christmas Children’s Show, with Grotbags
December 10: The White Christmas Variety Show, with The Bachelors, Frank Starr, Dino
December 11-16: Five Guys Named Moe
December 20-February 24: Scrooge - The Musical, with Anthony Newley, Paul Leonard,
Dudley Owen, Philip Hazelby, Mark White, David Baxter, Duncan Gregory, Harry Dickman,
Felicity Soper, Jeremy Sharples, David Alder, Angie Smith, Martin Hibbert, Julia
Harrison Jones, Jennie Dale, Nick Tcherniak, Stuart Pedlar
1996
February 26-March 2: English National Ballet: Cinderella, with Josephine Jewkes,
Monica Perego, Lisa Pavane, Thomas Edur, Greg Horsman, Michael Coleman, Kevin Richmond,
Elisabeth Miegge, Ambra Vallo, Joanne Clarke, Jane Haworth, Freya Dominic, Louise
Halliday, Emma Greenhalgh, Sarah McIlroy, David Peden, Christopher Hampson, David
Coleman
March 5-9: The Hot Ice Show, with Victor Mytnik, Valeria Tishler, Nicky Scott
March 12-16: Welsh National Opera Company 50th Anniversary Season: Cavalleria Rusticana,
Pagliacci, The Rake’s Progress, with Bryn Terfel, Paul Nilon, Alwyn Mellor, Dennis
O’Neill, Anne-Marie Owens, Rosalind Sutherland, Mark Wigglesworth, Carlo Rizzi
March 17: Avon Dance Stages ’96
March 19-23: Sinderella, with Jim Davidson, Jess Conrad, Dianne Lee, Dave Lee and
Roger Kitter, Mia Carla, David Kristian, The Oddballs
March 25-30: The Official Tribute to The Blues Brothers
March 31: The Hollies in Concert
April 2-6: The Rocky Horror Show, with Nicholas Parsons, Howard Samuels, Paul Darnell,
Sam Warden, Kate O’Sullivan
April 9-13: Avon Scouts Gang Show ’96
April 16-May 11: Copacabana, with Michael Praed, Theresa Kartell, Eric Flynn, Marilyn
Cutts, Jonathan Burn, Leonie Wilde
April 28: In the Mood, with Herb Miller Orchestra and Singers, John Miller, Fiona
Paige, Kaye Sisters
May 12: British Theatre Dance Association Gala Performance
May 14-18: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Theme and Variations, The Cage, ‘Still Life’
at the Penguin Café, Far from the Madding Crowd, with Leticia Muller, Wolfgang Stollwitzer,
Peter Ernst Lassen
May 19: Jethro
May 20: The Dubliners in Concert - Further Along Tour
May 21: Voulez Vous
May 22: That’ll be the Day, with Trevor Payne, Gary Anderson, Morgan Turner, Joanna
James, Josie Cain
May 23: Shirley Bassey in Concert
May 24-25: What a Feeling, with Felice Arena, Sonia, Veronica Bruno
May 26: Ain’t no Stopping us Now - The Philadelphia Tour 1996, with Harold Melvin
and the Blue Notes, Sheila Ferguson, McFadden and Whitehead
May 27-June 1: Patsy Cline - The Musical, with Sandy Kelly, George Hamilton IV, Emma
Weaver
June 2: Magic - A Tribute to Freddie Mercury and Queen
June 4-8: Welsh National Opera Company: Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Faust, The
Rake’s Progress, with Alastair Miles, Alwyn Mellor, Paul Groves, Catrin Wyn-Davies,
Donald Maxwell, Della Jones, Paul Charles Clarke, Jason Howard, Gareth Jones
June 11-15: Phantom of the Opera on Ice, with The Russian Ice Stars - Valeri Spiridonov,
Ekaterina Murugova, Oleg Makarov, Larissa Selezneva, Vladimir Kotin, Andrei Bannikov,
Kathy Dooley
June 19-22: National Theatre Company: The Wind in the Willows, with Tim Hudson, Francis
Matthews, Christopher Strauli, Ian Sharrock, David Roper, Robin Bowerman
June 24-29: Ferry ’Cross the Mersey - The Musical, with Gerry Marsden, Carl Kirshner
June 30: Lee Evans
July 1-6: Freak Out!, with Mike Fab-Gere and The Permissive Society, Jean Genie,
John Mainwaring
July 3-6 (daytime): Noddy, with Karen Briffett
July 7: The Good Olde Days, with Jimmy Cricket, Roly Polys, Craig Douglas, Lizzie
Wiggins
July 9-13: The Secret Garden, with The Library Theatre Company, Nadia Chambers, Laurence
Wythe
July 28: Lee Evans
July 29-August 3: Showstoppers - The 1996 Concert Tour, with Gary Wilmot, Hannah
Jones, Johanne Murdock, Philip Hazelbury, Marc Joseph, Paul McGuire
August 5-10: Only the Lonely - The Roy Orbison Story, with Peter Howarth, Kate Taylor
August 16: The Ultimate ’60s Concert, with The Imposters
August 25: Get Fresh with Bradley Walsh
August 27-31: Rita, Sue and Bob Too, with Paula Frances, Lisa Herbertson, Guy Oliver-Watts,
Sylvia Gatril, Andy Abrahams, Amelia Stephens
September 2-7: There’s a Girl in My Soup, with Tony Scannell, Lisa Marks, Jack Smethurst,
Debee Ashby, Phil Rose, Claire Robinson, David Callister
September 9-14: Spirit of the Dance, with The Irish International Dance Company,
Irish National Harp Orchestra, New York Gospel Choir, New Orleans Tap Kings, Russian
Cossacks, Oriental Acrobatic Ballet Company, Mongolian State Dancers
September 15 (daytime): Mr Men in Music Land
September 15: A Tribute to The Carpenters
September 17-21: Hot Shoe Shuffle, with Louise Plowright, Darren J Bennett, Dean
Magri, Teddy Green
September 22: Old Tyme Music Hall, with Dennis Hancock, Ken May, Pauline Rayner,
Michelle Bedford, Pamela Gray, in aid of St Peter’s Hospice
September 25: Stars of The Comedians, with Jos White, Ronnie Hayward, Jimmy Marshall
September 26-28: Hollywood and Broadway, with Wayne Sleep, Lorna Luft, Trevor Jones
September 30-October 5: Return to the Forbidden Planet, with Stuart Nurse, Sarah
Whittuck, Patrick Moore, Roger Alborough, Marvin Springer, Matt Devitt, Allison Harding,
Simon Jessop, Clive Fishlock, Jane Milligan, Sian Allen, Kludo White, Jonathan Bonner,
Kate Edgar
October 6: An Evening of Nonsense with Jethro
October 8-12: Romanian National Opera: Aida, The Magic Flute, Norma, with Mariana
Colpos, Ecaterina Tutu, Ionel Voineag, Gabriela Dragusin, Dan Dumitrescu, Ana-Camelia
Stefanescu, Adriana Mestes, Sever Barnea, Alexandru Samoila, Cornel Trailescu, Bristol
Light Opera Club, Great Western Chorus
October 15-19: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Les Patineurs, Le Baiser de la Fée, The Nutcracker
Sweeties, Swan Lake, with Catherine Batcheller, Yuri Zhukov, Sabrina Lenzi, Peter
Ernst Lassen
October 21-26: High Society, with Jackie Trent, Tracey Childs, Michael Howe, Roland
Curram, Martin Fisher, Monica Bravo, Rory Campbell, Stewart McLean, Kerris Peeling,
Dannie Bourne
October 29-November 9: Evita, with Marti Webb, Christopher Corcoran, Stagecoach Theatre
School students
November 3: Syd Lawrence Orchestra
November 4-5: Let the Force be With You, with Johnny Ball
November 12-16: Anything Goes, with Bristol Light Opera Club
November 17: Andrew Newton
November 19-23: Welsh National Opera Company: Don Giovanni, La Boheme, The Doctor
of Myddfai, with Davide Damiani, Arwel Huw Morgan, Catrin Wyn-Davies, Alwyn Mellor,
Rosalind Sutherland, Carlo Ventre, Gerald Finley, Linda Tuvas, Lisa Tyrrell, Paul
Whelan, Graham Jackson, Richard Armstrong
November 26-30: Fame - The Musical, with Mark Crossland, Kimberley Partridge, Craig
Urbani, Ruby-Marie Hutchinson, Leon Maurice-Jones, Lucie Pankhurst, Jai Ramage, Samuel
Gough, Nick Lashbrook, Mazz Murray, James Earl Adair, Nicola Blackman, Allan Fredricks,
Zoe Tyler
December 3: Sean Wilson and Susan McCann, Charlie Days
December 5: Slade II, Sweet, John Rossall’s Glitter Band Experience - Merry Christmas
Everybody Tour
December 6-7: Roy “Chubby” Brown
December 8: Christmas with The Savoy, with Bristol Savoy Operatic Society
December 11: Chris de Burgh in Concert
December 12-14: Rambert Dance Company 70th Anniversary Tour: Rooster, Swansong, Eidolon,
with Steven Brett, Patricia Hines, Sheron Wray, Barbara Rodriguez Torres, London
Musici
December 20-January 25: Dick Whittington, with Jim Davidson, John Virgo, Victor Spinetti,
Melanie Stace, Keith Emerson, Roger Kitter, John Bardon
1997
January 24 (11.30pm): Dick and Pussy - A Love Story, with Jim Davidson, John Virgo,
Victor Spinetti, Roger Kitter, Patsy Palmer, Jess Conrad, Dianne Lee
January 28-March 1: Crazy for You, with Patrick Mower, Fiona Benjamin, Tim Flavin,
Angela Moran, Barry J Gordon, Amanda Prior, David Gilliam, Graham Hoadly, Annette
McLaughlin, Claire Taylor, Robert Scott
February 9: The Late, Late Christmas Variety Show 2, with Cannon and Ball, Martin
Daniels, Faith Brown, Dino, Kaz, Richard Wyatt, in aid of The Jack and Jill Appeal,
Frenchay Hospital
February 23: Abba Gold
March 4-8: English National Ballet: Alice in Wonderland, with Alice Crawford, Monica
Perego, Marta Barahona, Lenaig Guegan, Yat-Sen Chang, Lee Robinson, Greg Horsman,
Dmitri Gruzdyev, Christian Duncan, Lisa Pavane, Irina Roncaglia, Michael Coleman,
Giuseppe Picone, Patrick Flynn
March 9: What a Feeling!, with Sonia, Luke Goss, Sinitta
March 11-15: Welsh National Opera Company: Carmen, Rigoletto, Iphigénie en Tauride,
with Sara Fulgoni, Phillip Joll, Catrin Wyn-Davies, Diana Montague, Didier Henry,
Robert Spano, Julian Smith, Steven Sloane
March 16: Stages ’97: Celebrating Dance
March 17-22: Bottom Live 3: Hooligan’s Island, with Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
March 26: The Drifters
March 27: An Evening of Nonsense with Jethro, Peter Carson
March 28: In the Mood - A Tribute to Glenn Miller, with Herb Miller Orchestra and
Singers, John Miller, Fiona Paige
March 29: The Chuckle Brothers
April 1-5: Bristol Scout Gang Show Silver Jubilee
April 6: Magic - A Tribute to Freddie Mercury and Queen
April 7-12: The Official Tribute to The Blues Brothers
April 16-June 21: Summer Holiday, with Darren Day, Ross King, Clare Buckfield, Hilary
O’Neil
April 20: Glen Campbell in Concert, Debby Campbell, Goodtime Band
May 18: All Star Celebrity Gala Variety Show, with Russ Conway, Nicholas Parsons,
Lisa Goddard, Andrew Sachs, Rosemary Squires, Peter Goodwright, Bert Weedon, Wyn
Calvin, Hilary O’Neil, Les Reed, Su Douglas, Korgis, Madeline Bell, Sue Nicholls,
Mark Eden, David Neilson, Peter Baldwin, Randolph Sutton Junior, Richard Hope-Hawkins,
Spice-ish Girls, ’60s Tiller Girls, Bristol Boys Choir, in aid of Parkinson’s Disease
Society
June 24-28: Welsh National Opera Company: Simon Boccanegra, The Barber of Seville,
From the House of the Dead, with Phillip Joll, Katarina Karneus, Jonathan Veira,
Charles Workman, Jeffrey Lawton, Nigel Douglas, Yolande Jones, Carlo Rizzi, Richard
Armstrong
June 30-July 5: A Chorus Line, with Adam Faith, Maria Laura Baccarini, Pili Lopez,
Samantha Hughes, Flik Swan, Louise Smith, Daniel Hinchliffe, Brenda-Jane Newhouse,
J Harrison Combe, Andrew Wright, David Otton, Zoe Smith, Jeremy Fisher
July 6: The Care Bears Magical Story Book
July 13: The Billy Fury Experience, with Colin Gold, Fury’s Tornados
July 14-19: Tapping Harlem
August 25-September 13: South Pacific, with Jessica Martin, Mark Wynter, Rustie Lee,
Roger Leach, David Anthony, Tita Lau, Jesse Milligan, Warren Kimmel
September 15-20: Blood Brothers, with Lyn Paul, Mike Dyer, Paul Crosby, Tom Fairfoot,
Lisa Bowerman, Sarah Mowat, Peter Washington, Anthony Jordan, Andrew Westfield, Sara
Haggerty, Jason Summerfield, Tony Lanfranchi, Victoria Ward, Stuart Cross
September 22-27: The Roy Orbison Story, with Peter Howarth, Kate Taylor, Julie Maguire
September 29-October 4: 42nd Street, with Gemma Craven, James Smillie, Jennifer Williams
October 7-25: West Side Story, with Katie Knight-Adams, David Habbin, Graham Macduff,
Edward Baker-Duly, Anna-Jane Casey, Fraser Skeoch
October 12: Margarita Pracatan, Ted and Hilda Durante
October 27-November 8: Tommy - See Me, Feel Me, with Paul Keating, Simon Jermond,
Emma Francis, Natalie Holton
November 11-15: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Edward II, Serenade, Orpheus, The Four Temperaments,
with Wolfgang Stollwitzer, Sabrina Lenzi, Andrew Murphy, Joseph Cipolla, Chi Cao,
Paul Bayes-Kitcher, Alain Dubreuil, Daniel Taylor, Jonathan Payn, Paul Murphy, Royal
Ballet Sinfonia
November 16: Joe Longthorne in Concert
November 18-22: Welsh National Opera Company: Fidelio, Carmen, La Clemenza di Tito,
with Gidon Saks, Suzanne Murphy, Patricia Bardon, Katarina Karneus, Isabelle Vernet,
Paula Hoffman, Lisa Milne, Adrian Thompson, Rebecca Evans, Glenn Winslade, Simon
Kirkbride, Sir Charles Mackerras
November 25-29: Barnum, with Bristol Light Opera Club
November 30 (daytime): Mr Men and the Magic Toy Shop
November 30: Harry Hill Live
December 3: The Solid Gold Rock ‘n’ Roll Show, with Marty Wilde and The Wildcats,
Joe Brown and The Bruvvers, John Leyton, Eden Kane, The Vernons Girls
December 4-5: Frank Skinner Live, with Frank Skinner, Steve Best
December 6: Freddie Starr
December 7: An Evening of Nonsense with Jethro
December 10-13: Peter Pan, with Leon Greene, Sophie Louise Dann, Carrie Ann Sutton,
Karen Holmes, Andy Ford
December 15-20: From a Jack to a King, with Eric Glamis, Allison Harding, Stuart
Nurse, Sarah Whittuck
December 29-March 28: Les Misérables, with Jeff Leyton, Peter Corry, Cameron Blakely,
Gemma Sandy, Mark O’Malley, Cathy Breeze, John Owen Jones, Joshua Jenkins, Marc Pickard,
Bradley Read, Rebecca Vere, Paul Monaghan, Julia Worsley, Martin Warden, Ellie Brogan,
Anna Blake, Sam Hillier, Susie Dumbreck, Nicci Brightman, Morag Siller, Norman Bowman,
Catherine Digges, Paul Christ
1998
March 15: That’ll be the Day, with Trevor Payne, Gary Anderson, Morgan Turner, Joanna
James, Josie Cain
March 22: Cast of Les Misérables Grand Appeal Charity Concert
March 29: Stages ’98 Dance Gala Show
March 30-31: Roy “Chubby” Brown
April 1-2: Spirit of the Dance, with The Irish International Dance Company
April 3: Magic - A Tribute to Freddie Mercury and Queen
April 4: Voulez Vous - The Abba Experience
April 5: The Hollies in Concert
April 7-11: Welsh National Opera Company: Billy Budd, The Coronation of Poppea, Tosca,
with Robert Tear, Christopher Maltman, Stephen Richardson, Catrin Wyn-Davies, Paul
Nilon, Neil Jenkins, Gwynne Howell, Michael Chance, Linda Kitchen, Sally Burgess,
Peter Sidhom, Suzanne Murphy, Carlo Ventre, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gareth Jones, Julian
Smith
April 14-18: Bristol Gang Show ’98
April 21-25: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Far from the Madding Crowd, Symphony in Three
Movements, Grosse Fuge, Elite Syncopations, with Monica Zamora, David Justin, Yuri
Zhukov, Kevin O’Hare, Dorcas Walters, David Morse, Ambra Vallo, Andrew Murphy, David
Justin, Catherine Batcheller, Andrea Tredinnick, Keren Waldie, Mikaela Polley, Joseph
Cipolla, Wolfgang Stollwitzer, Timothy Cross, Sergiu Pobereznic, Philip Ellis, Jonathan
Higgins, Royal Ballet Sinfonia
April 26: Solid Silver ’60s Show, with Helen Shapiro, The Seachers, The Swinging
Blue Jeans
April 27-May 2: The Official Tribute to The Blues Brothers - The Final Tour, with
Ian McKeith, Brad Henshaw, Dionne Bennett, Joe Speare, Roger Wright, Steve Parry
May 5-June 6: Grease, with Luke Goss, Alison Carter, Nicky Adams, Chris Holland
June 7: The Chuckle Brothers
June 9-13: Welsh National Opera Company: Boris Godunov, La Traviata, Tosca, with
Grant Dickson, Gwynne Howell, Peter Hoare, Cara O’Sullivan, Jonathan Summers, Carlo
Ventre, Michele Hedge, Robert Hayward, Carlo Rizzi
June 15-20: Boogie Nights, with Shane Richie, Lisa Maxwell, Sharon Benson
June 23-July 4: Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story
July 14-25: The Goodbye Girl, with Gary Wilmot, Marti Webb, Nia Jermin, Hope Augustus
July 27-August 1: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with Richard Swerrun,
Bristol School of Dancing Children’s Choir
August 2: Anthology of The Beatles
August 5-8: Playdays - Crash! Bang! Wallop!!
August 12: Danny La Rue - 50 Glorious Years, with Danny La Rue, Steve Barclay, Linda
Watts, Lavelle Twins, David and Pauline Conway, David Carter Band
August 29: Bodger and Badger - Mad Mash III
September 6: The Woolpackers in Concert, with Alun Lewis, Billy Hartman
September 7-11: Four Steps to Heaven, with Peter Howarth, Alex Bourne, Tim Whitnall
September 14-19: Girls’ Night Out
September 20: The Drifters
September 23-26: Rambert Dance Company: Airs, August Pace, Axioma 7, Cruel Garden,
with Paul Liburd, Dierdre Chapman
September 28-October 10: Blood Brothers
October 11: Lily Savage
October 12-17: Smokey Joe’s Café, with Hannah Waddingham
October 20-24: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Romeo and Juliet, Powder, ‘Still Life’ at
the Penguin Café, The Protecting Veil, with Sabrina Lenzi, Kevin O’Hare, Lee Fisher,
Michael O’Hare, Dorcas Walters, David Justin, Robert Parker, Paul Murphy, Emma Johnson,
James Potter
October 25 (daytime): The Mr Men and Little Miss in Nursery Rhyme Land
October 25: An Evening of Nonsense with Jethro
October 26-31: The New Rocky Horror Show, with Jason Donovan, Ken Morley
November 3-7: Welsh National Opera Company: Un Ballo in Maschera, Madame Butterfly,
Jenufa, with Paul Charles Clarke, Lada Biriucov, Suzanne Murphy, Rosalind Sutherland,
Nigel Robson, Christopher Lincoln, Dennis O’Neill, Gail Pearson, Phillip Joll, Christine
Weidinger, Susan Gorton, Julian Smith, Graham Jackson
November 10-14: The King and I, with Bristol Light Opera Club
November 15: Abba Gold
November 16: The Billy Fury Experience
November 17: Jane McDonald in Concert
November 18-21: Jasper Carrott in Concert
November 27-28: Van Morrison
December 1-5: English National Ballet: The Nutcracker, with Larissa Ponomarenko,
Patrick Armand, Agnes Oaks, Thomas Edur
December 6: That’ll be the Day, with Trevor Payne, Gary Anderson, Morgan Turner,
Josie Cain
December 8: The Magic of Sinatra, with Andy Prior, Donna Canale, Andy Prior Orchestra
December 9-10 (daytime): Mortal Combat - An Introduction to Shakespeare
December 10-13: The One Hundred and One Dalmatians, with Heidi Monsen
December 15: The Ultimate Fantasy Show
1999
January 5-May 22: The Phantom of the Opera, with Scott Davies, Zoe Curlett, Richard
Lake, Valerie Cutko, Carrie Ellis, Katrina Murphy, David Delve, Hans Dornbusch, Alan
Vicary, Joanne Pullen, Lucy Middleton, Anthony Boon, Carl Donohue, John Polhamus,
Colin Fay, Paul Christ
February 28: A Century of Song, with The Phantom of the Opera cast, in aid of Wallace
and Gromit’s Grand Appeal
March 14: Stages ’99 - Bristol City Schools Dance Production
May 9: Phil Cool in Concert
May 27-29: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Coppelia, with Sabrina Lenzi, Andrew Murphy,
Paul Murphy
June 1-26: Jesus Christ Superstar, with William Byrne, Ben Goddard, Golda Rosheuvel,
David Durham, Matt Cross, Fred Johanson
June 27: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), with The Reduced Shakespeare
Company - Rick Bland, Christian Malcolm, John Schwab
June 29-July 3: Fiddler on the Roof, with Bristol Light Opera Club
July 6-10: Welsh National Opera Company: Tristan und Isolde, The Magic Flute, Cavalleria
Rusticana, Pagliacci, with Andrew Shore, Toby Spence, Franzita Whelan, Catherine
Foster, Jean-Yves Ossonce
July 12-17: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with Richard Swerrun, Louise
Dearman, Andy Lingfield, children from Bristol Stage School, City of Bristol Boys
Choir and Thornbury Boys Choir
July 21: Men O Men
July 22-24: Aspects of Dance, with Wayne Sleep, City Ballet of London
July 27-August 7: Martin Guerre, with Matthew Cammelle, Joanna Riding, Stephen Weller,
Gareth Snook, Michael Bauer, George Abbott, Maurice Clarke, Lisa Peace
August 9-14: The Ultimate Hen Party
August 18-21: Playdays: Why Bird’s Lucky Number
August 24-September 4: West Side Story, with Ulster Theatre Company - Zoe Rainey,
Mark Dugdale, Mark Dougherty
September 5: An Evening of Nonsense with Jethro, Ovation Brothers, Karen Noble
September 6-11: Opera and Ballet International, with Russian principals, Chisinau
National Ballet Company and Orchestra: The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, with Elena
Zaitseva, Andrei Litvinov, Ion Ianachi, Svetlana Popova
September 12: Beyond the Barricade, with Rebecca Thornhill, Lindsey Danvers, David
Fawcett, Andy Reiss, in aid of MENCAP
September 13-18: The Official Tribute to The Blues Brothers, with Matthew Stokes,
Matthew Hewitt, Eleanor Leah, Julian Cannonier, Rohan Reckford, Steve Parry
September 19: The Counterfeit Stones
September 20: Magic - A Tribute to Freddie Mercury and Queen
September 22: The Solid Gold Rock ‘n’ Roll Show ’99 - 5th Anniversary Tour, with
Joe Brown and The Bruvvers, Marty Wilde and the Wildcats, John Leyton, Eden Kane,
The Vernons Girls
September 23: Jet Harris’s Shadows
September 24: Think Floyd in Concert - The Eclipse Tour ’99, Playbox Theatre and
Bristol School of Dancing students
September 25: Thanks for the Memory, with The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Ray McVay,
Bernie Winton
September 28-October 9: Annie, with Lesley Joseph, Kara Wenman, Kevin Colson, Kate
Normington
October 11-16: Return to the Forbidden Planet, with Robert McCormick, Mark Crossland,
Nicola Bolton
October 19-23: English National Ballet: La Bayadere, Sphinx, The Rite of Spring,
Coppelia, with Agnes Oaks, Thomas Edur, Dmitri Gruzdyev, Daria Klimentova, Tamara
Rojo, Monica Perego, Yat-Sen Chang, Michael Coleman, Martin West
October 26-30: Bristol Gang Show 1999
October 31: The Hollies
November 2-6: Welsh National Opera Company: Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, The Carmelites,
with Robert Hayward, Arwel Huw Morgan, Nuccia Focile, Matthew Hargreaves, Linda Kitchen,
Cara O’Sullivan, Timothy Robinson, Nicolae Moldoveanu, Phillip Joll, Claire Rutter,
Carlo Ventre, Antonia Sotgiu, Catrin Wyn-Davies, Sally Burgess, Elizabeth Vaughan,
Natalie Christie, Julian Smith, Gareth Jones
November 7 (daytime): That’ll be the Day presents Wicked
November 7: That’ll be the Day, with Trevor Payne, Gary Anderson, Morgan Turner,
Josie Cain
November 8: A Slice of Saturday Night
November 9-13: The Hobbit
November 17-January 29: Les Misérables, with Jeff Leyton, Peter Corry, Rosie Palfrey,
Kristina Lewis, Samantha Pring, Orla Dennehy, Alex Sharpe, Martin Fisher, Andrew
Bain, Ben Starr, Eddie Brown, Paul Monaghan, Damian Wilson, Lindsey Danvers, Lincoln
Hudson, Amanda Leigh Smith, Eaton James, Catherine Breeze, Greg Castiglioni, Keith
Brookman, Michael England
November 21: Peter Karrie Unmasked
December 5: Freddie Starr, Johnny Laff
December 19: Les Chris-Mis Gala - An Evening with the Cast of Les Misérables, Playbox
Theatre children, in aid of Wallace and Gromit Grand Appeal
