Musicals & Opera
Starting as a poor Irish-American boy, George M. Cohan rose to become a top entertainer, songwriter, playwright, director and producer known as ‘The Man Who Owns Broadway’. David Herzog stars in the first European production of this award-winning hit Off-Broadway solo show.
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Clive James in Conversation
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Clive James in Conversation
Pam Ann - Terror at 41,000 FT.
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Pam Ann - Terror at 41,000 FT.
Karen Dunbar
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Karen Dunbar
Craig Hill Makes Your Whole Week!
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Craig Hill Makes Your Whole Week!
The Aluminum Show
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The Aluminum Show
Nina Conti - Evolution
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Nina Conti - Evolution
Tina C. - Tick My Box
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Tina C. - Tick My Box
Jim Rose Circus
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Jim Rose Circus
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The Pleasance launches its 2008 Fringe and programme
The Pleasance 2008 programme once again combines the freshest young talent and new writing, with performances from international leading lights of the theatre, dance and comedy worlds.
Edinburgh Comedy Festival Announced
Inaugural event will be world’s largest comedy festival
Assembly transforms three A-list prestigious buildings
In 2008 Assembly will transform three A-list prestigious buildings into a multitude of temporary performance spaces, exhibition areas, information sites and ‘must-be-seen-at’ late night bars.
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Who doesn’t love a bit of Bully. The greatest living presenter of a darts based tv quiz show, and legend of the small screen, is back with a new lunch-time chatshow Look At What You Could Have Won.
Underbelly Provides The Live Comedy Soundtrack To Your Summer.
Once again, Underbelly unleashes a belly full of laughs into Edinburgh this August.
Samples of Assembly’s 2008 Comedy
Check out Assembly’s comedy line-up for the Fringe this year and just try telling us it’s not brilliant
11:45 (12:45) George Square Theatre
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Brand New World
Follow the rags to riches tale of Aladdin, a poor street boy on the wrong side of the track, who finds love against the odds. Exciting street dance, soulful singing and an 'original score'! This new musical is retold with an 'Urban Flavour', ... A feel good family show
Does for musicals what the Reduced Shakespeare Company did for Shakespeare. Affectionately sending-up shows from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Lloyd Webber, this show is a riotous cocktail of great gags and musical pastiches!
Townsville Comprehensive is an ailing school like any other — until the day Peter Quinn falsely accuses his teacher, Arnold Finkler, of molesting him. Rumour quickly spreads and the town’s parents go wild. Stirred up by Jean McDonald, local agony aunt and Townsville’s undisputed moral matriarch, the parents rally together, ready to do whatever it takes to clean up the neighbourhood. Spurred on by an inflammatory column in the local rag, the parents march on the innocent Arnold, determined to put the ‘lynch’ firmly
back into ‘lynch mob’.
Meanwhile Arnold, oblivious to the controversy that surrounds him, can only concentrate on wooing the French teacher, Marigold Hardbody.
But how do you win over the love of your life, when everyone’s convinced that you’re into little boys...?
Moral outrage, betrayal, sex and secrets meet love, truth and friendship for the ultimate showdown — all through the medium of song!
A house. A big swivel chair. A shower room.
A bunch of eager, hopeful Bright Young Things - well, they’re not all young, they’re mostly not bright, but they’re certainly things. They’re the Inmates of the Big Bruvva Gaff and they’re hungry for stardom. Watch them sing, snog and shriek their way towards their final Live Ejection.
Who wins? You decide…
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A tender, poignant and consistently funny look at the adventures, or rather the misadventures, of Charity Valentine. Combining elements of traditional musical theatre with a contemporary twist of modern performance. Songs include 'Big Spender', 'Rhythm of Life' and 'If My Friends Could See Me Now'.