Preview: Save The Last Dance For Me at Sunderland Empire

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FROM TOP TEN HITS OF THE NOUGHTIES

TO THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CLASSICS OF THE SIXTIES

BILL KENWRIGHT PRESENTS

BLUE’S ANTONY COSTA

IN UK TOUR OF

SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME

BY LAURENCE MARKS & MAURICE GRAN

FEATURING THE CLASSIC HITS OF DOC POMUS & MORT SHUMAN AND MANY MORE...

TO PLAY SUNDERLAND EMPIRE MONDAY 9- SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016

From the team that brought you the huge success that is Dreamboats and Petticoats, Save the Last Dance for Me will take you back through the ‘music and magic’ of the early 60’s, a time when each passing week brought another Rock ‘n’ Roll classic. This nostalgic, feel-good journey will transport you back to music’s golden era as we follow two teenage sisters through the summer of ’63. The production will start its UK tour at New Wimbledon Theatre from 12^th April, calling at Sunderland Empire for one week only 9-14 May 2016.

For the first time without their parents, the sisters embark on a holiday to the seaside. Full of freedom and high spirits they meet a handsome young American who invites them to a dance at the local U.S. Air force base... But young love and holiday romance is never as simple as it sounds, and the sisters soon realise that while the world around them is still watching itself in black and white, life and love can be much more colourful.

ANTONY COSTA (Milton) has previously appeared on stage in Blood Brothers (West End) and Boogie Nights (UK Tour). He is best known as one of the members of BLUE, the biggest British boy band of the Noughties, who enjoyed chart success with three number one albums, and 11 Top Ten singles, including their debut song All Rise. Blue, which also included Simon Webbe, Lee Ryan and Duncan James, disbanded in 2004 but then reunited in 2011, and that year they represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. This year they released their fifth studio album Colours before embarking on a UK tour.

FEATURING THE CLASSIC HITS OF POMUS & SHUMAN INCLUDING

A Teenager in Love; Sweets for my Sweet; Turn Me Loose; Here I Go Again; Viva Las Vegas; Little Sister; His Latest Flame; Suspicion; Can’t Get Used to Losing You; Save the Last Dance For Me and many more...

Tickets: 

Tickets available from the Box Office on High Street West, via the ticket centre 0844 871 3022* or www.ATGtickets.com/Sunderland *calls cost 7p per minute plus standard network charges. Booking and transaction fees may apply to telephone and online bookings.