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Meet the Whitmans! @christina.nelson.1088 and @dickycrox will perform the roles of Emily and Theodore Whitman in #Follies @gohbelfast this September, roles which include a performance of the brilliant showstopper 'Rain on the Roof' which many of you will know from 'Paddington 2' by Hugh Grant and fellow inmates... Christina Nelson is a highly acclaimed actress, director and writer from Belfast, NI. She trained at Rupert Stanley College and has over 35 years of experience in the industry. Christina has just finished a tour of the festivals with her own show “The Fanaticals “ with 5 star reviews. This year she worked on a world premiere of a new musical in Los Angles “The Musicians of Bremen “ which is making its Irish debut in the Belfast Festival next month. Christina played Mrs Hooley in a sold-out show in New York, Irish Arts Centre with Good Vibrations. She is now writing and directing a series of children's shows that will be toured throughout NI over the Festive season , When she is not treading the boards or writing Christina and her team, Tiny Nelson Productions are creating bespoke walkabout characters and performances for events. Richard Croxford’s career has included acting, writing and directing for numerous theatre companies locally, nationally, internationally and London's West End. Favourite recent stage roles include Senator George Mitchell in Agreement (Lyric Theatre), General Harrison Howell in Kiss Me Kate, Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd, Tiger Brown in Threepenny Opera for NI Opera. Recent TV includes Mayor Firth in Murder Most Puzzling and Ben McCafferty in Fun Boys as well as Bloodlands, Mrs. Wilson and feature films The Quarry and the blockbuster Dungeons And Dragons as Lord Neverember. Richard is also a busy voice over artist doing documentaries for BBCNI and commercials on U105. @artscouncilni #Follies #TheWhitmans #RainOnTheRoof #Sondheim #SeptemberMusicals #WhatsOn #BelfastTheatre #BelfastEvents @ourbelfastmusic
It's just over a month until the 15th Glenarm Festival of Voice returns for our much-loved annual celebration of singing and vocal music in the stunning coastal village of Glenarm. From 10am tomorrow you can enter the free ticket draw to be in the audience in Glenarm's historic St Patrick's Church for the @bbcradio3 recitals on Friday 22 August at 8-pm (@carolyn_dobbin_mezzo), Saturday 23 August at 8pm (baritone @james_atkinson94) and Sunday 24 August at 1.30pm (Santiago Sanchez @tenorsanchez) all accompanied by pianist @simon_lepper and hosted by broadcaster Sean Rafferty. The draw is open until 28 July - enter via BBC Shows and Tours @bbcshows. Tickets are also already on sale for our afternoon concert on Saturday 23 August from 3-4pm in The Coach House in @glenarmcastle with @carolyn_dobbin_mezzo and pianist @tristanrusscher on a theme of Ulster Scots Song and also the main event, the Competition Finale on Sunday 24 August in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Glenarm from 6.30 to 8.30pm - finalists will be announced shortly! We have a brilliant free morning of drama and art activities for 9-11 year old children in the @glenarmcastle Coach House on Saturday 23rd August from 10 to midday run by two fantastic art and drama facilitators - free to attend, book a space or just drop in! Find out more and get your tickets via the linktree in the bio. With thanks to @artscouncilni @meaboroughcouncil @glenarmcastle and our donors and friends whose support and funding makes this annual festival possible. #summer #summerfestival #classicalmusic #operafestival #summeropera #freeconcerts #recitals #bbcradio3 #glenarm #northantrimcoast #northernireland #classicalmusicfestival #operaperformance #liverecording #childrensactivities #whatson
This July and August the Summer Recital series is back at First Church Belfast for their 31st year. We're very much looking forward to being part of this programme of free Wednesday lunchtime concerts. Each recital runs from 1.15 to 2pm (doors open at 1pm) and all are free to attend - it's a really lovely way to spend a summer lunchtime! If you haven't been to First Church Belfast before, you'll find it on Rosemary Street right in Belfast's city centre - all are welcome. The first Northern Ireland Opera recital takes place on 23 July with soprano Zoë Jackson- Soprano, winner of Deborah Voigt Opera Prize at the 14th Glenarm Festival of Voice performing a recital on a theme of Songs of Love and Loss with pianist Bryan Evans. We return on 30 July with baritone Seamus Brady Baritone, song prize winner at the 14th Glenarm Festival of Voice, in a recital accompanied by pianist Tristan Russcher. First Church Belfast's Summer Recital Series then continues throughout August at the same time each week in association with RIAM. 6 August 1.15pm: Joanne Quigley (violin) and David Quigley (piano) 13 August 1.15pm: Showcase: Competition Winners Of The Royal Irish Academy 20 August 1.15pm: Justine Gormley (piano) 27 August 1.15pm: The Inaugural Young Musicians’ Prom Find out more about all the Summer Recitals here - via the linktree in our bio. Arts Council of Northern Ireland #summerconcerts #summerrecitals #freeconcerts #belfastevents #freebelfastevents #summermusic @ourbelfastmusic #classicalconcert #operasingers #opera #arias #recital #summerrecitals
Announcing the next three fantastic cast members for #Follies at the Grand Opera House, Belfast this September! Pippa Winslow @pippawinslow will be our Stella Deems, Marty Maguire @martymaguire_jm our Dimitri Weismann and Darren Franklin @darrenfranklin645 our Roscoe. We are delighted to welcome these wonderful artists to the cast and can't wait to get started with rehearsals in Belfast in few weeks time - find out all about them via the event page on our website. Set in 1971, the girls of Weismann’s ‘Follies’ are returning with their partners to the decaying theatre on Broadway which holds so many memories for them for one last time before it is demolished. Time may have moved on, but inside the theatre old connections stir, rivalries flare and ghosts of the past are woken. By the time they all leave the theatre for one last time, their world’s will have shifted and nothing will be the same again. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Goldman, this legendary work features unforgettable songs including ‘Broadway Baby’, ‘I’m Still Here’, ‘Could I Leave You’, and ‘Losing My Mind’. Find out more about the show and the cast via the event link in the bio and book your tickets soon at Grand Opera House, Belfast. @artscouncilni @cameronmenziesdirector @fourthwallpr @ourbelfastmusic #Sondheim #Follies #StellaDeems #Weismann #DimitriWeismann #Roscoe #musical #musictheatre #musicals #broadwaymusicals #newyork #theseventies #showgirls #showtunes #whatsoninseptember
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