Tickets can be booked by visiting;

www.birmingham-box.co.uk  or www.oldreptheatre.org.uk

Or by calling the Box office on 0121 245 4455 or Crossed Keys Ticket Secretary on 07775 708 874.

Calamity Jane dresses like a man, totes a gun like a man, rides a horse like a man but thinks like a female. Well-meaning, but disaster-prone, Calamity tries to help the local saloon proprietor, Henry Miller, out of a hole by promising  to fetch a famous music star from Chicago back to Deadwood, Miss Adelaide Adams.  Calamity mistakes Katie Brown for Miss Adams, who is really Miss Adams’ maid and brings her back to Deadwood. 

Katie Brown tries to perform as Miss Adams but breaks down and confesses she is not Miss Adams after all, much to the dislike of the men in town who think they have once again been tricked by Calamity Jane.  Katie soon wins the townsmen over and becomes quite a hit in Deadwood, especially with two gentlemen – Wild Bill Hickcock and a certain Lt. Danny Gilmartin, who Calamity is love-struck by.  This puts Katie direct into Calamity’s firing line… to find out how it all ends you’ll have come and watch the show. 

Featuring many famous songs such as Windy City, Black Hills of Dakota and Secret Love it sure promsies to be one hell of a ride.

Crossed Keys are pleased to announce their concert – Around the World in 80 Minutes.  As the title suggests we are taking the audiemce on a journey with songs that have a world theme.

The concert includes music from ”The Lion King”, “Chess”, “Miss Saigon”, “The King and I”, “Hairspray” and many many other well known songs that will aid you on your journey

It takes place at the Ivy Leaf Social Club, Coventry Road, Sheldon, Birmingham for two nights – 18th and 19th November 2011.  Ticket prices £6.00 each.

Tickets can be obtained by contacting Dennis on 0121 603 5970 \ 07946175274 or by email dennis2001@blueyonder.co.uk

Look forward to seeing you there.

Crossed Keys New members poster

New Members Wanted

Then why not join Crossed Keys Musical Theatre Company! If you are over 16 and love to sing, dance, act and perform, then come along to rehearsals between 7.30pm and 10.00pm, every Monday evening.

We’re a bunch of fun and friendly people of all ages, so you’ll never be too old to join.

We rehearse Monday evening at The Grange Social Club, 13 Broad Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham B27 7UZ.

If you would like to come, give Liz Neville a call on 07956 548054 or email liznev1@googlemail.com

Further details on booking will be announced here soon.

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Crossed Keys Musical Theatre Company presents

‘How We Sung The Wars’

Performed Thursday 4th November and Friday 5th November 2010

at 8.00pm at Dovehouse Theatre, Langley Arts & Sports Complex, Solihull

A night of nostalgia with performances of popular songs from the wars.

In support of Help for Heroes

‘Boogie Nights – The Musical’

Was performed Wednesday 9th June to Saturday 12th June 2010

Do you remember where you were the night Elvis died? Well tonight’s the night – ‘Boogie Nights – The Musical’ tells the heart warming story of Roddy, a ‘jack-the-lad’ whose life of birds, booze and boogie is about to be turned upside down.

Packed with the greatest disco classics such as You Sexy Thing; YMCA; I Will Survive; Celebrate; Sugar Baby Love; and Boogie Wonderland. This glitzy 70′s show will have you up on your feet, doing ‘The Hustle’ and ‘The Bump’.

“THE Seventies live on! More specifically, it is 1977, because that was the year when Elvis Presley died, and the father of the unpleasant character who shares the show’s central pairing with the sparklingly pretty Karen Pickering is an Elvis devotee.

Karen plays Debs, whom the programme describes as bold and brassy – but that is not the message that comes across in Pat Sherrington-Blane’s tumultuous production. Debs here is the badly-treated girl friend of a young man who doesn’t deserve her. Certainly, she is spirited, but this is usually in a defensive role, against his latest outlandish bit of behaviour – and she emerges as the girl with a bad man but a very good voice.

The anti-hero, the fly in the ointment, is Roddy. Again, the evidence is at odds with the programme. Certainly, it is right to describe him as a ladies’ man, but the “oodles of charm” bit is missing from Simon Chinery’s account. There’s a line that strikes a more appropriate chord: “You get what you fancy, then you see what your mate’s got and you want some of his.”

It seems to me that here we have an actor who recognises what he has been given and who gets on with breathing life, however unsavoury, into his script. This is a pleasing performance, with its successive numbers punched out with panache and the surprising, but apparently essential, American accent.

Back to the programme, this time in its description of Trish, best friend of Debs “and the plainer of the twosome.”

It’s a throwaway injustice! We are talking here of the girl with one of the two loveliest smiles on stage – the other adding particular illumination to the happy and hard-working chorus. Trish is played by Ruth Johnson, who invests her with a gentle credibility that ensures that her personality is as pleasing as that smile. She also gives her, just once, a hilarious snort of a laugh that was much appreciated by the first-night audience.

Neil Pickering, as her boyfriend Terry, pitches purposefully into his role as the show’s built-in nerd. Richard Perks is strong as Spencer, the singer with the band who scores in its version of YMCA. Rachel Fisher (Lorraine) is equally at home as the singer who is Spencer’s girl, and Mark Robert Jones adds a touch of smartness and some brisk movement as Dean, the DJ at the club.

The surprise of the evening is Dennis Hoccom’s Eamon, the Elvis fan – the likable garage mechanic with an earthy conversational tone who reveals a pleasing singing voice when the opportunity eventually arrives.

It is a happy evening, its story shaped to accord with successive hits of 30 years ago – and it is a story embellished with lines like “At least she’s having sex with one of your friends, not a complete stranger” and “I’m talking about the miracle of childbirth and you have to bring sex into it.”

It’s fun. It loses a point only for its inability to avoid including one of those unsavoury nose-picking moments. This is a show, and this is a company, with far more to offer than that. To 12.6.10.”

John Slim
officeboxoffice@birmingham.gov.uk
0121 303 2323