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One of the most unique performing arts centre
in Europe.
WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE
WMC’s biggest-ever show flies in!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang opens at WMC on Thursday 3rd July for an eight-week run, and staff are already gearing up to accommodate the most extravagant show they have ever staged.
Following a smash West End run which opened at the London Palladium in 2002 and ran for a record-breaking 1,414 performances, the touring version of Chitty brings with it a cast of 35 actors/dancers/singers, 16 musicians, 30 technicians, and 39 children – not to mention 10 dogs.
The Cardiff run will have a distinctly Welsh flavour with singer and presenter Aled Jones starring as inventor and widowed father Caracatus Potts, while Ian Watkins, (H from pop band Steps and Celebrity Big Brother housemate) is the evil Child Catcher charged with ridding Vulgaria of all children.
Transporting the sensational sets and stunning special effects into Cardiff will require 25 trucks, with 130 people to move the show and set it up at the venue. The ‘flying car’ cost close to £750,000 – and made it into the Guinness Book of Records for the most expensive stage prop ever created.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies into Wales Millennium Centre from 3rd July to August 30th.
Tickets are on sale now, priced from £10 to £39.50.
To book, call 087010 40 2000 or visit www.wmc.org.uk |
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10th anniversary of Mandela visit
Composer Karl Jenkins will mark a milestone in the history of Wales when he conducts a South African choir in a special performance of his celebrated work ‘The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace’.
Children from a South African township will join Karl to perform the modern choral masterpiece at Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) on June 16th – a month before Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday.
The concert marks the exact anniversaries of both the Soweto Uprising in 1976 and Nelson Mandela’s speech to the people of Wales in 1998.
The special concert, ‘A Mass for Peace: United in the Power of Song’, unites 150 voices and full orchestra in a unique reflection on the destruction of war, and a celebration of the power of song.
‘A Mass for Peace’ will be performed at the WMC at 7.30pm on Monday 16th June 2008.
Tickets range from £13 to £25.
To book, call 087010 40 2000 or visit www.wmc.org.uk |
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