Picture Page News 8- ABBA/Regatta Capsize/The spread of the yellow peril.
6 August 2008
This announcement is quite timely. It's a well known fact that many of our Doverforum WAGS went en bloc to see the Movie...MAMMA MIA. They piled off to Ashford in fine style. The film was/is very popular too, with the girls anyway...stirring a throbbing chord in every female bosom! So these shows at The Marlowe in Canterbury are really capturing the exciting flavour of the moment...
Below is the Press info on the shows....get in fast! As you can see they are selling out bigtime.
THE CURRENT craze for all things Abba has lead to the Marlowe Theatre adding an extra performance of a tribute concert.
Abba Mania’s evening show on Friday, August 29 sold out within weeks but fans who missed out can now see it at 4pm the same day. Theatre director Mark Everett wasn’t surprised there was such a huge demand for tickets. He said: “Given the huge success of the film Mamma Mia and the fact that Gold – Greatest Hits is topping the album chart for the fifth time in 16 years, Abba are big news and we have added a performance at a time that we hope will, in particular, appeal to families.”
Abba Mania formed in 1999 and the show has been selling out venues across the world since then, bringing the music of the Swedish supergroup to millions of fans, old and new.
Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anna Frida, collectively known as Abba, dominated the charts for nearly 10 years and enjoyed nine UK number one singles. Their timeless songs were written to be enjoyed live and Abba Mania gives audiences exactly that – two hours of uplifting, danceable and sometimes heart-breaking songs, fully live with staging, lighting and effects. The hits include Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Mamma Mia, The Winner Takes it All, Super Trouper, Take a Chance on Me and many more.
Tickets for the 4pm performance of Abba Mania are priced £18.50 and £16.50 and £11 for the under-16s, and are available now from the box office on 01227 787787.
Picture above by John Richards. I enjoyed this tongue in cheek email from John Richards that came with his picture... " I’m sure this photograph is of no interest to you. It shows the P & O Officers from the Pride of Calais, capsizing, the first time at The Regatta Dragon Boat Race on Sat 2nd Aug. Somewhat ironically the vessel in the background is----The Pride of Calais. Far too embarrassing for you to include on Forum website I’m sure! "
Many thanks John for the picture and info. Its a very good shot of Dovorians at play despite the weather. The Regatta as ever was an excellent event but this time beaten down to some extent by the miserable conditions. However we nearly always get good weather for it so optimism rules for a continued rosy future.
Comments always welcome - see below.
Yellow Peril: Well we havent exactly being covering ourselves in glory this year as far as tourism is concerned. Our flagship seafront has indeed been covered.. but no, not in glory, but to a huge extent by sickly polysterene in the most bilious colour imagineable. If the hapless enroute visitor wasnt thinking about seasickeness before he got to this fair town, well he certainly did when he got a butchers at this lot. One glance and the stomach churns, the eyeballs roll, and the legs turn to jellied mush. At this point in time, but I may speak too soon, only The Churchill Hotel has escaped the yellow peril. Obviously they had the sense not to inflict it on their visitors at the height of the tourist season.However, this yellow peril, this pestilence, gathers apace like affronting cannons..all to the left of them, all to the right of them, and in between rides the lonely tourist. Why something like this cannot be carried out off-season bewilders the easily bewildered yours truly. Still, there we have it, for better or worse...a marriage not made in heaven!
ABBA MANIA
This announcement is quite timely. It's a well known fact that many of our Doverforum WAGS went en bloc to see the Movie...MAMMA MIA. They piled off to Ashford in fine style. The film was/is very popular too, with the girls anyway...stirring a throbbing chord in every female bosom! So these shows at The Marlowe in Canterbury are really capturing the exciting flavour of the moment...
Below is the Press info on the shows....get in fast! As you can see they are selling out bigtime.
Mamma Mia, you can go again!
THE CURRENT craze for all things Abba has lead to the Marlowe Theatre adding an extra performance of a tribute concert.
Abba Mania’s evening show on Friday, August 29 sold out within weeks but fans who missed out can now see it at 4pm the same day. Theatre director Mark Everett wasn’t surprised there was such a huge demand for tickets. He said: “Given the huge success of the film Mamma Mia and the fact that Gold – Greatest Hits is topping the album chart for the fifth time in 16 years, Abba are big news and we have added a performance at a time that we hope will, in particular, appeal to families.”
Abba Mania formed in 1999 and the show has been selling out venues across the world since then, bringing the music of the Swedish supergroup to millions of fans, old and new.
Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anna Frida, collectively known as Abba, dominated the charts for nearly 10 years and enjoyed nine UK number one singles. Their timeless songs were written to be enjoyed live and Abba Mania gives audiences exactly that – two hours of uplifting, danceable and sometimes heart-breaking songs, fully live with staging, lighting and effects. The hits include Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Mamma Mia, The Winner Takes it All, Super Trouper, Take a Chance on Me and many more.
Tickets for the 4pm performance of Abba Mania are priced £18.50 and £16.50 and £11 for the under-16s, and are available now from the box office on 01227 787787.
Picture above by John Richards. I enjoyed this tongue in cheek email from John Richards that came with his picture... " I’m sure this photograph is of no interest to you. It shows the P & O Officers from the Pride of Calais, capsizing, the first time at The Regatta Dragon Boat Race on Sat 2nd Aug. Somewhat ironically the vessel in the background is----The Pride of Calais. Far too embarrassing for you to include on Forum website I’m sure! "
Many thanks John for the picture and info. Its a very good shot of Dovorians at play despite the weather. The Regatta as ever was an excellent event but this time beaten down to some extent by the miserable conditions. However we nearly always get good weather for it so optimism rules for a continued rosy future.
Comments always welcome - see below.
Yellow Peril: Well we havent exactly being covering ourselves in glory this year as far as tourism is concerned. Our flagship seafront has indeed been covered.. but no, not in glory, but to a huge extent by sickly polysterene in the most bilious colour imagineable. If the hapless enroute visitor wasnt thinking about seasickeness before he got to this fair town, well he certainly did when he got a butchers at this lot. One glance and the stomach churns, the eyeballs roll, and the legs turn to jellied mush. At this point in time, but I may speak too soon, only The Churchill Hotel has escaped the yellow peril. Obviously they had the sense not to inflict it on their visitors at the height of the tourist season.However, this yellow peril, this pestilence, gathers apace like affronting cannons..all to the left of them, all to the right of them, and in between rides the lonely tourist. Why something like this cannot be carried out off-season bewilders the easily bewildered yours truly. Still, there we have it, for better or worse...a marriage not made in heaven! - I only wish I had the contract to supply the ''yellow peril''.Someone is makig a bob or two.
- On a positive note thank goodness some repair and painting is going to be carried out on these buildings.I only thought the other day how shabby they looked .In winter they will have worse weather with gales and rain.
- Agree sue but does it have to be such a hideous colour as said if you didn't feel sick before you would after looking at that.
- Yes agree all round that they do need doing but hey! slap bang in the middle of the tourist season and August, well for once i'm speechless and that takes some doing.
- As a WAG that went to see mamma mia the film run's true to the stage production in london, so the evening at the marlow should be just as good well worth seeing if you can get a ticket.
Show's ABBA's music still has a strong following. - Just seen this, thanks PaulB I am now hoping to get some tickets today if there not all gone. Seen the show and the film, got the gold album and the T-Shirt.Love it all.
- Ahh indeed our Doverforum Wags film night out recently to see Mamma Mia was just fabulous, the movie had us all dancing in the aisles, almost everyone was standing up dancing in the end. Will also try for tickets at the Marlowe. I confess I am an AA (ABBA ADDICT)