The Band Plays On... for Sussex web audiences
Chichester Festival Theatre is partnering with Sheffield Theatres to offer their brand-new streamed show The Band Plays On to Sussex audiences.
It is available until
March 28, with ticket sales benefitting CFT as well as Sheffield Theatres.
From writer Chris Bush (Standing at the Sky’s Edge), The Band Plays On comes promised as a rousing night of extraordinary tales and live music.
An Olympic hopeful. A political car crash. The fallout from a fictional nuclear winter.
Funny, moving and often unexpected, these stories of solidarity and survival from the Steel City are sound tracked by new versions of classics from some of Sheffield’s most celebrated artists including I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor (Arctic Monkeys); Pour Some Sugar on Me (Def Leppard); and Sing it Back (Moloko).
The cast is Jocasta Almgill (& Juliet West End, West Side Story Royal Exchange Manchester), Anna-jane Casey (Mack & Mabel, My One & Only Chichester Festival Theatre, Annie Get Your Gun Sheffield), Sandra Marvin (Stepping Out CFT, Show Boat Sheffield & West End), Maimuna Memon (Standing at the Sky’s Edge Sheffield, Jesus Christ Superstar Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and Jodie Prenger (A Taste of Honey, Oliver! West End).
CFT artistic director Daniel Evans said he was delighted to be involved with sharing the production in the same way other theatres digitally shared the CFT’S production of Crave when it was streamed last autumn, all part of what Daniel predicts will be a greater online collaboration between theatres in the future.
As for the show: “Just look at the cast. Many of them are well known to our audiences, and it is going to be wonderful. I know it is going to be brilliant”