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February
Tuesday 9 February at 6.30 pm
Chichester Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester
tickets:  01243 781312
or book by e-mail		 Create2Learn

Enchanting voices
a new opera for children by Howard Moody, based on the myth of Orpheus. Nearly 200 children from West Sussex primary schools will be on stage to sing and tell the epic and tragic tale of Orpheus.
Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 February at 8 pm
Capitol Theatre, Horsham
tickets:   01403 750220
or book on the theatre's website		 Hot flush
an outrageous new musical about the friendships, secrets, laughs, tears and the ups and downs of four ordinary women - and one man - living extraordinary lives.
“A real, laugh out loud comedy musical” BBC
Friday 12 February at 7.30 pm
The Hawth Theatre, Hawth Avenue, Crawley
tickets: 01293 553636 (Hawth box office)		 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Deborah Norman (soprano), Michael Bracegirdle (tenor)

Classical love themes
including favourite music from Bizet's Carmen, Puccini's La Bohème, Madama Butterfly and Tosca, and Verdi's La Forza del Destino.
Saturday 13 February at 8 pm
The Dome concert hall, Brighton
tickets: 01273 709709 (Dome box office)
or book on-line		 Caroline MacPhie (soprano) with the Johann Strauss Orchestra & Dancers

Johann Strauss gala
music, song anmd dance from the Strauss family and friends.
Sunday 14 February at 2.45 pm
The Assembly Hall, Stoke Abbot Road, Worthing
tickets:  01903 206206 (Worthing Theatres box office)
or book on-line		 Anna Gorbachyova (soprano), Dominic Natoli (tenor)
with the West Sussex County Youth Orchestra

Valentine's Day Love Music

Donizetti Arias and duets from L'elisir d'amore
Puccini Love duet from La Bohème (Act I)
The orchestra plays Rossini's overture to Tancredi, Delius' Walk to the Paradise Garden and excerpts from Khachaturian's Spartacus.
Monday 15 to Saturday 20 February at 7.15 pm
matinée Saturday at 2.15 pm
Chichester Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester
tickets:  01243 781312
or book by e-mail		 CAOS Musical Productions (Chichester Amateur Operatic Society)

Hello, Dolly!
a musical comedy set in New York in the 1890s based on Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.   Dolly Gallagher Levi has been engaged by the wealthy Yonkers grain merchant Horace Vandergelder, to ‘match-make’ for him. But Dolly is intent on saving Horace for her very own!

Hello Dolly! mixes romance and humour with highlights including the title song Hello Dolly (singing and dancing waiters) and memorable songs such as Before the Parade passes by, Ribbons down my back and So long Dearie.
Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 February at 7.30 pm
matinée Saturday at 5 pm
Roedean School Theatre, Roedean, Brighton
booking details to be advised		 Brighton Theatre Group Youth

Hairspray
in this Broadway musical it’s 1962 and change is in the air. Tracy, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion – to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance programme, and overnight is transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. But can a trendsetter in dance and fashion vanquish the TV programme's reigning princess?
Wednesday 17 to Saturday 20 February at 7.30 pm
Sallis Benney Theatre,   University of Brighton,
Grand Parade, Brighton
tickets: 01273 643010 (box office)		 SMuTS (Sussex Musical Theatre Society)

Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story
a masterpiece of love and revenge, updating the Romeo and Juliet story in the setting of  New York 1950s gang warfare.
Wednesday 17 to Saturday 20 February at 7.30 pm
Saturday matinée at 2.30 pm
The Hawth Theatre, Hawth Avenue, Crawley
tickets: 01293 553636 (Hawth box office)		 Company of Friends

Gilbert and Sullivan
The Pirates Of Penzance
orphaned pirates, flat-footed policemen and the beautiful daughters of a Major General are all ingredients in a swashbuckling plot. 
Saturday 20 February at 7.30 pm
St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street, Hove
tickets and information: 01273 833746
07 754 707731
or buy on-line

another performance on 27 February in Henfield
Brighton Consort

Towards Monteverdi!
Claudio Monteverdi and the composers he admired
the programme includes a performance of his
Messa a 4 da cappella.
Tuesday 23 to Saturday 27 February at 7.30 pm
matinée Saturday at 2 pm
Capitol Theatre, Horsham
tickets:   01403 750220
or book on the theatre's website		 The Dream Maker
everything starts with a dream... Local writer Jill Landskroner has always known this and The Dream Maker, a musical written by Jill during her chemotherapy, makes the dream a reality.

All profits will be donated to Cancer Research UK.
Tuesday 23 to Saturday 27 February at 7.45 pm
matinées Thursday and Saturday at 2.30 pm
Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton
tickets: 08700 606650 or book on-line		 La cage aux folles
in this Jerry Herman musical the idyllic existence of Georges and the dazzling drag artiste Albin is threatened when Georges’ son announces his engagement to the daughter of a right-wing politician. With a visit from the prospective in-laws imminent, they take drastic action to hide their lifestyle ... the score includes Song on the sand, The best of times, and I am what I am.
Saturday 27 February, 10.15 am to 5 pm
Big School, Christ's Hospital, near Horsham
information and registration: 01403 753279
or contact by e-mail
download to print registration form (PDF)
Christ's Hospital Choral Society

Choral Workshop
on Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius

led by Jonathan Willcocks, Musical Director of Portsmouth Choral Union and Chichester Singers. Copies of the music (Novello Edition) will be available on the day. Everyone welcome
Saturday 27 February at 7.30 pm
St Peter's Church, Church Lane, Henfield
tickets and information: 01273 833746
07 754 707731
or buy on-line
Brighton Consort

Towards Monteverdi!
Claudio Monteverdi and the composers he admired
the programme includes a performance of his
Messa a 4 da cappella.
 
Public booking opens Saturday 27 February

Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Britten Billy Budd 20 May - 27 June
Mozart Così fan tutte 22 May - 17 July
Verdi Macbeth 13 June - 24 July
Mozart Don Giovanni 4 July - 27 August
Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel 25 July - 28 August
Stravinsky The Rake's Progress 8 August - 29 August

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listings last updated 08 February 2010
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