Grumpy Old Women tour the region
THE Grumpy Old Women will continue to knock further sense in to the nation with a fourth leg of the hit UK tour, Fifty Shades of Beige, which opens its North-East performances at Billingham Forum Theatre. Perrier Award winning comedian, writer and original star of Grumpy Old Women Jenny Eclair will be joined by comedy actor Susie Blake (Mrs Brown’s Boy’s BBC1, Coronation Street ITV) and actress and singer Kate Robbins (Where The Heart Is ITV, Casualty BBC1). Audiences are encouraged to come and bask in an orgy of fury and big laughs from more than two hours of no-nonsense comedy.
This jam-packed show includes... the joy of large pants, a free nagging master class (how to get your own way without him even noticing), the art of Grumpy Grooming, beards for women... which style will suit you? There is also the Complimentary Anger Management workshop, middle-aged drinking: the rules, navigating the smorgasbord of worry, voluntary euthanasia Vs, plus retirement, how to customise an unwanted pole dancing kit and a mercifully brief Zumba demonstration.
Written by Jenny Eclair and Judith Holder (best-selling author of the first Grumpy Old Women book and producer of the hit TV series), the original stage version completed four sell-out UK tours, a hugely successful month-long West End residency, and a hit run in Australia – which, combined, sold 180,000 tickets and was released on DVD.
Tour dates: May 25, Billingham Forum Theatre 01642-552663; June 3, Harrogat,e The Royal Hall, 01423-500500; June 9, York Grand Opera House, 0844-871-3024; June 26, Newcastle Theatre Royal, 0844-811-2121
Viv Hardwick
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