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The following and many other shows, are available for Single Night bookings, Split-Weeks, or longer. Have you got a hole in your season? An unexpected gap in your repertoire? An empty Sunday? An unfilled weekday? Someone suddenly let you down? Let us fill it with our unique, elite, audience-thrilling, cost-effective, celebrity-led 'One Night Stands', available EXCLUSIVELY through Marc Sinden Productions sister-company THE ONE NIGHT BOOKING COMPANY. For a current brochure, packed with famous names, recitals, anthologies and musicals to suit YOUR budget, email us your details at info@onenightbooking.com Laced with wonderful anecdotes (what happened after Marilyn Monroe knocked on his dressing-room door at Pinewood; which acting great crashed a warship while filming The Cruel Sea; the true secret of Dirk Bogarde�s acting success) this is a rare chance to hear one of the great tellers of anecdotes relate some of the stories that are usually only heard at the Garrick Club. Hear The Timbre - Feel The Projection!
"Magical and memorable! We have been recalling and retelling those wonderful jokes to all who missed the unmissable! What an evening! What an occasion!" email from audience member at Guildford
November 8 - Theatre Princesse Grace, Monaco (return visit by popular request) Cartoon of Donald Sinden by Clive Francis � and used with permission
In this intimate and self-revelatory show, he leaves behind the make-up and the sequins and with his characteristic humour and charm, reveals what it�s like to be Julian Clary.
He tells how a shy, Catholic schoolboy became a huge TV star known for his risqu� humour and outrageous costumes and how he won over an entirely new audience with his appearances on BBC�s Strictly Come Dancing and Who Do You Think You Are?
Julian charts his journey from a policeman�s son in suburbia to a trail-blazing gay icon, winning the hearts of the public on his way.
An Evening with� Julian Clary demonstrates all the wit and humour that makes Julian a top entertainer and reveals some surprising and moving insights into the life of a star.
April 11 - Crescent Theatre, Birmingham - - SOLD OUT
Now in its 5th year - Sin in Style!
The hugely popular and very successful anthology evening of Wicked Comedy, Heavenly Drama, Devilishly Tall Tales, Enchanting Poetry and Seductive Stories starring four Deadly Beautiful Temptresses will enlighten you on how to survive, or even live by, the Seven Deadly Sins!
"As intelligent as 'The Hollow Crown' and as laugh-out-loud funny as a Ray Cooney. What more does one want?"
Please see the dedicated web-page for fuller details of this anthology. To be taken straight to the page, click HERE.
Part masterclass, part performance, part stand-up, this mesmerising one-man show from actor, director, film-star and writer STEVEN BERKOFF, takes a scalpel to the heart of villainy in the company of Shakespeare's most nefarious blackguards.
In an illustrious stage and screen career STEVEN BERKOFF has got under the skin of many of our most memorable bad guys: psychos, murderers, gangsters and autocrats - from Bond baddies to Hamlet; from Rambo's nemesis to Coriolanus. Now Berkoff brings this wealth of experience to Shakespeare's most notorious villains in a way that challenges, exhilarates and entertains.
"A performance touched with magic and genius" The Australian
With a cast-list that runs from Oscar Wilde to Elizabeth II this is a wickedly witty entertainment from an award-winning raconteur, with unique tales to tell from his unlikely life in the theatre, television, journalism and politics.
"Gyles Brandreth is brilliant... incredibly funny and wildly indiscreet" Daily Mail
"A deadpan comic to rival Jack Dee" Daily Telegraph
"Gyles Brandreth has a serious talent for making people laugh" Daily Mirror
�So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see� countless numbers of people the world over will continue to have Conversations with Shakespeare. He has shaped their imaginative life and they love him.
Shakespeare the musician is the one we are going to have a conversation with in this one man show with the renowned RSC musician, composer and Elizabethan music expert MARTIN BEST, regarded worldwide as 'the first great contemporary troubadour'. With his lute and his voice he will chart the Music of the Spheres, the music of song, verse and dance, the "music of men�s lives" and draw us with him through "the sweet power of music". And he will be joined by you, the audience. Together all will create Conversations with Shakespeare.
Performed recently, in less shocking colours, at the Daphne du Maurier Festival of Arts & Literature, Fowey and the Connaught Theatre, Worthing to full houses.
Curious photograph of Clive Francis and Donald Sinden � Clive Francis 2005 and used with permission
This superb adaptation brings to life the many colourful characters from what has to be CHARLES DICKENS� most famous story, A Christmas Carol.
In a unique, one-man version CLIVE FRANCIS recreates a host of Dickensian favourites from Jacob Marley to Bob Cratchit as well as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future and of course, Ebenezer Scrooge, a role Clive has played to great acclaim for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Now taking bookings for the Christmas �08 season
"Clive Francis' Scrooge is spell-binding" Sunday Times
"The definitive Scrooge" Daily Mail
November 28 - Beck Theatre, Hayes box office: 020 8561 8371
�I thought life was going to be a brilliant comedy. I found it to be a revolting and repellent tragedy.� Conceived and performed by actors PATRICK MARLEY and GENEVIEVE ALLENBURY this is an elegant and dramatic look at the life, loves and above all, the works of one of the most celebrated literary figures of the 19th century, OSCAR WILDE. We encounter Wilde himself, his friends and his enemies and much of the fascinating detail, taken in part from recent biographies, reveals aspects of this dramatic story that are both new and surprising.
"Without doubt the most satisfying performance I have ever seen about Wilde" Plays & Players
"This Wilde is wonderful � revealing, moving and beautifully performed" Evening Standard
Hailed as one of the greatest voices on stage today PETER STRAKER, original cast member of Hair, Phantom of the Opera (for Ken Hill rather than Andrew Lloyd Webber), Blues in the Night and Hot Stuff, brings his unique talents to bear on the bitter and thrilling songs of Jacques Brel. Set in a seedy bar in the port of Amsterdam, this acclaimed compilation highlights Straker�s incomparable vocal artistry. The show includes the classics 'If you go away' and 'Jackie', alongside such lesser known numbers as 'When I am old' and 'Off to die'. In a barnstorming performance that piles on the agony and the ecstasy, Straker turns on his vibrato and presses all the right buttons to turn the audience on too. Written and directed by MEL SMITH (who also directed the hit movie Bean), this special production which was such a hit at the Edinburgh Festival can be booked for limited periods at Festivals and one-night shows. The press have been ecstatic over the show, as can be seen by this selection of reviews:
�An evening that�s hard to forget. Peter Straker exhibits all the shameless savoir-faire of a seasoned diva and doesn�t just sing Brel, he is Brel� Evening Standard Photograph of Peter Straker and producer Marc Sinden with thanks to RTF � and used with permission
In this extraordinary and thrilling play, Jack Clemmons (HARRY MACDONALD) a retired police sergeant is so shocked by the hasty and slipshod way in which a suicide verdict is brought in that he determines to investigate the short life and mysterious death of the unwanted waif NORMA JEANE BAKER, who became the international star MARILYN MONROE. Played brilliantly by EVA GRAY (left) and starting with Monroe�s difficult childhood, the play progresses through her struggle to be recognised as a serious actress, her constant quest for affection and respect and finally her mysterious early death.
"Superb: The role requires an intense concentration and Eva Gray as Monroe does not miss a trick. The play is expertly constructed, the narrative line clear, the drama always compelling" Liverpool Daily Post "Eva Gray gives an absorbing performance as Monroe. In a powerful performance her features clearly reflect her feelings and changing moods. The piece is a gripping mystery" The Stage
Ever wish you knew what the truth was behind all those Hollywood rumours? TRADER FAULKNER knows! As best friend of the great film actor PETER FINCH, he reveals first hand the scandals and gossip about Finch�s notorious affair with VIVIAN LEIGH that led to the break up of her marriage to LAURENCE OLIVIER, his love for KAY KENDALL and how his passion for SHIRLEY BASSEY nearly drove him to a nervous breakdown. Bitchy and brilliant, Losing My Marbles will provide you with enough anecdotes to fill many a dinner party for years to come!
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In an intimate and hysterically funny evening DONALD SINDEN discusses his long career: how he made the transition from Rank Film Star to top classical actor with the RSC, farce both on TV and the West End stage, to a regular dramatic role in the hugely popular BBC series Judge John Deed.
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Compiled by the award winning scriptwriter and author of the first six of the Carry On� films Norman Hudis, it stars four from the following interchangeable cast: RULA LENSKA (Celebrity Big Brother '06), TRACEY CHILDS (Born and Bred), EVA POPE (Coronation Street), LINDA PURL (Happy Days), SARA CROWE (Four Weddings and a Funeral), JAN FRANCIS (Just Good Friends), NICHOLA McAULIFFE (Surgical Spirit), JEAN FERGUSSON (Last of the Summer Wine), ABI TITMUSS (Fat Christ), CHERI LUNGHI (Cutting It), DEBBIE ARNOLD (EastEnders), JANIE DEE (Mack & Mabel), ANITA HARRIS (Carry On�s etc), ANGHARAD REES (Poldark), ANNABEL LEVENTON (Wimbledon), LORNA DALLAS (United 93), JUDY BUXTON (On The Up), GEORGIA REECE (Brookside), LIZ ROBERTSON (King & I), LIZA GODDARD (Take Three Girls) and KERRY NORTON (Bad Girls).
Iago, the Macbeths, Shylock, Richard III. Characters who are inherently evil, others whose situation leads them to evil deeds or who find themselves at the mercy of an evil society. Incisive insights into the psyche give way to Shakespeare's own words, which explode into the auditorium from one of the UK's most formidable and maverick talents in a performance that earned him a Society Of London Theatre Olivier Award nomination. 
They say all political careers end in tears � in GYLES BRANDRETH's case it�s tears of laughter as the author, broadcaster, former MP and government whip takes us on an hilarious roller-coaster ride through the corridors of power � from Buckingham Palace to the Kremlin, from the green benches of Westminster to the green rooms of the West End.
Unawares, we use his phrases and expressions every day: �the game�s afoot�, �if music is the food of love� and �we band of brothers� are �hoist with our own petard� by �the darling buds of May�. Actors will tell you that Shakespeare the playwright informs their every move, their timing, their inflection. Scholars are drawn as if by a drug to his secrets of interpretation. What about musicians? 
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