Peoples Millions Update

We have just found out how many votes we picked up on the day. In total we got 17,220 votes, the second highest of any project in the U.K.!

Kidz Drama Klub

Last year, working with celebrated professional theatre director Sarah Lincoln, we launched a series of theatre workshops for children. The Kidz Klub focuses on key theatre skills for children. Sarah develops children’s acting and theatre skills through games, confidence building, improvisation and stagecraft. And at the end of each series the children get to show their new talents off to their parents.

The Kidz Klub will be commencing on the 26th April – 5th July. NB No classes on 31ST May due to a Theatre matinee performance. Each class runs for 2 ˝ hours on a Saturday. 6-9 years from 10-12.30.

Sarah is an Artistic/Theatre Director and Acting Coach with over 23 years experience. She is a graduate of the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, London. As an actor she has performed many of the great female roles including Lady Macbeth, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Kate in Taming Of The Shrew. Her TV credits include: Casualty, Wycliffe, Down To Earth, The House Of Elliot, EastEnders, Pebble Mill at One and South West TV.

For further details please see: www.sarahlincoln.co.uk

If you are interested in joining the Kidz Klub please telephone the Theatre on 01736 797007 or email info@kidzrus.net .

STAGE LIGHTING COURSE

On Thursday January 17th, 2008, the first of our technical courses, Stage Lighting, will be commencing.

This is the chance of a lifetime for you budding lighting technicians as we believe there isn’t anything like this available in this neck of the woods.

The Course Tutor will be Simon Hutchings (Click here for Simons CV ) and anyone aged 14 years and above can book a place on the course but we are limited to 15 participants.

The course will include everything you need to know about Stage Lighting from A-Z. But, it’s not just all about theory, you will have the chance to design and light various live shows in a theatre!! So as you can see, it will also be really good hands-on experience.

PEOPLE’S MILLIONS VOTE RESULT

WE’VE WON!!!!!!!! IT’S BRILLIANT -THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT AS TOGETHER WE DID IT XXXXXXXXXXX

Thank you to everyone who supported us with our People’s Millions bid and the work on the improvements will begin asap on the roof with the internal work taking place February to March 2008.

Kidz R Us is a Youth Theatre company based in St.Ives Cornwall and a registered charity.

We have our own 321 seat theatre in the centre of town, the former Wesley Chapel with a full programme of shows throughout the year.

Our Kidz are not paid but be assured that they strive and succeed to attain the standard of professional productions. In fact our company has performed in the West End at the London Palladium, Royal Albert Hall and Criterion Theatre and also at the world famous Minack Theatre in Cornwall throughout the past 10 years.

Kidz Performing at the Minack Theatre

Phil and All at Kidz R Us.

2008 SHOW DATES

May Day Concert - Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

Monday May 5th 8pm

Disney’s Aladdin Jr

‘Disney’s Aladdin’

Welcome to Agrabah, City of Enchantment, where every beggar has a story and every camel has a tail. All of your favourite characters are here in this stage adaptation of the Disney hit, including Aladdin, Jasmine, and of course, the Genie. Filled with magic, mayhem, and flying carpet rides, audiences’ spirits will soar with excitement. Most of all, the tuneful, Academy award-winning score with songs including “A Whole New World” and “Friend Like Me” will certainly make this musical a favourite for many years to come.

May 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 & matinee 31st
June 5, 12, 19, 26, July 3, 10, 17, 24
August 7, 14, 21, 28,
September 4

Anything Goes (Beaumont)

Music by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton, PG Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
The action takes place on the SS American, sailing from New York to England. On board are the beautiful heiress Hope Harcourt, her English fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakleigh and Hope’s Mother. Stowing away on board is Billy Crocker, a young admirer of Hope’s who can’t believe she would really marry the silly Sir Evelyn and determines to try and stop her. Public Enemy Number Thirteen, with his moll Bonnie, is also along for the ride and he passes on to Billy the passport and ticket of a gangster friend of his who didn’t catch the boat. This leads to unwelcome complications for Billy, as he and the Public Enemy have to keep changing disguises to avoid arrest.
Keeping the steam at boiling point in the ship’s engine room and working the stabilisers overtime is the sexy, incandescent Reno Sweeney; ex-evangelist and currently nightclub singer. With her help all the shipboard disasters are averted and all the romances sorted out – including her own.
Cole Porter’s glorious songs include ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’,
‘Its Deloveley’, ‘Anything Goes’, ‘Blow Gabriel, Blow’, ‘You’re the Top’, & ‘Friendship’.
July 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31 & matinee 26th
August 13, 20, 27,
September 3, 10

KRU 2 'We Found Love and an Exquiste Set of Porcelain Figurines Aboard the SS Farndale Avenue'

A very funny comedy by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr

The ladies of the Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society are in romantic vein, set aboard an ocean liner for their excursion into the world of thirties musical comedy a la Noel and Gertie. The ladies prove that the age of glamour and elegance is not dead. Well not quite anyway. The ladies, with stage manager, Gordon standing in, soar above some mundane practical difficulties to present a couple of catchy numbers and a stunning underwater sequence.
June 21, 22, 23, 24 and 30
July 7, 14, 21, 27th
August 11, 18, 25th
September 1, 8, 15th
All shows start 8pm
Stalls Adult Ł8.50; children 14 and under Ł6; All balcony seats Ł9

How to Book

By Telephone
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01736 797007 ( +44 1736 797007 from outside the UK ).
Please have your debit or credit card ready.

If calling outside office hours please leave a message - we will call you.

By Post
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Write to Box Office, St.Ives Theatre, Lower Stennack, St.Ives, Cornwall, UK, TR26 1QG.

Please include your name, address and a daytime telephone number.
Make cheques payable to: Kidz R Us.
Enclose a sae to get your tickets by return post, otherwise they will be held at the Box Office for collection.

In Person
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Call in at the Box Office, St.Ives Theatre.

We are open daily from two weeks before each Kdz R Us show:
10.00 - 16.00 Monday - Friday. Also 19.00 - 20.00 on show nights.
For details of opening hours for other shows please call us. How to find us Lower Stennack, St.Ives, TR26 1QG.

From town - walk up Gabriel Street, continue straight up the hill past The Western Hotel (lhs) and the Co-Op Supermarket (rhs).

The theatre is on the right hand side facing the main road, opposite the Sheaf of Wheat pub. Lost - just call in to any shop, restaurant or pub to ask for directions.
Everybody knows where we are!