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<strong>programme</strong><br />
sept-dec 2013
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Welcome to another busy season where we have a great<br />
line-up of events to see us through the long evenings until<br />
Christmas.<br />
We open the season with the eagerly awaited arrival for<br />
the first time of the classic rock ‘n’ roll musical by Richard<br />
O’Brien, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW in September. This<br />
show promises to be a non-stop party at the boldest bash<br />
of them all!<br />
Comedy is a mainstay of our offering this season with a<br />
wide variety of comedians taking our stage beginning<br />
with THE BLAME GAME and FUNNY AT THE FORUM<br />
in September; ARDAL O’HANLON and CLUBSOUND<br />
in October and TV favourites ALAN DAVIES and<br />
Portstewart’s own JIMEOIN later in the season. We also<br />
have some great music with renowned Irish troubadour<br />
CHRISTY MOORE while BRIAN KENNEDY and THE<br />
PRIESTS both join us around Christmas.<br />
There’s something different for our drama lovers this<br />
season with the Lyric Theatre’s acclaimed production<br />
of BRENDAN AT THE CHELSEA starring actor ADRIAN<br />
DUNBAR. Icarus Theatre Company brings us<br />
Shakespeare’s OTHELLO while brand new musical<br />
TEENAGE KICKS by Colin Bateman premieres in<br />
November. New comedy drama SPRINGTOWN CAMP<br />
1963 arrives in October while MAIRE-A WOMAN OF<br />
DERRY will see its last ever performance this season by<br />
Carmel McCallion.<br />
There is ballet with a beautiful production of THE<br />
SLEEPING BEAUTY by the Moscow Ballet while Olivier<br />
award-winning team Boy Blue Entertainment brings a<br />
new narrative dance piece, THE FIVE AND THE PROPHECY<br />
OF PRANA.<br />
Our seasonal favourite, our<br />
pantomime, PETER PAN, takes us<br />
on a trip to Never Never land with<br />
Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, Tiger-lily<br />
and all the gang. Prepare for festive<br />
fun with stage magic to make the<br />
children – and adults! – gasp in awe!<br />
We look forward to yet more performances and<br />
opportunities during this momentous City of Culture<br />
year.<br />
The ever popular Rocky Horror Show, which is<br />
celebrating its 40th anniversary, encourages us into<br />
a time warp again. Other highlights range from<br />
Opera NI’s performance of “The Importance of Being<br />
Earnest” to punk musical “Teenage Kicks” telling<br />
classic love stories with a twist right through to<br />
Othello which is still as relevant to today’s audience.<br />
We are delighted to see the Lyric’s Danske Bank Stage<br />
production coming to the North West with Adrian<br />
Dunbar portraying the legendary Behan in “Brendan<br />
at the Chelsea”.<br />
In October, as the city prepares to be centre-stage<br />
once again internationally, through the annual<br />
Halloween festival, dance is in the <strong>programme</strong><br />
performed by the Moscow Ballet. Sleeping Beauty<br />
will appeal to young and old, especially aspiring<br />
ballerinas.<br />
Famous names such as Alan Davies and Jimeoin will<br />
give us all the opportunity to laugh out loud.<br />
Finally we’d like to take this opportunity to thank the<br />
<strong>Millennium</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> staff who have continued to bring<br />
us a mix of showcasing local talent and old favourites.<br />
Now is the time for you to<br />
buy your tickets for this year’s<br />
pantomime as they will be sold<br />
out. Oh no they won’t...Oh yes<br />
they will...<br />
Patrick Mullan<br />
Enjoy the season!<br />
David McLaughlin<br />
Chief Executive<br />
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Elvis Spectacular<br />
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Sat 24th Aug | 8pm | Tickets : £9.50,<br />
£12.50, £15.00 (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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The Elvis Spectacular is Ireland’s premier<br />
Elvis show. Now in its fifteenth year, the<br />
show was originally formed by Mervyn Boyd<br />
to commemorate the 20th anniversary of<br />
Elvis’ death. It has since gone from strength<br />
to strength and now features the superb CC<br />
Houlihan as The King himself.<br />
He looks like him! He sounds like him! He<br />
moves like him!<br />
The Elvis Spectacular has played every<br />
major venue in the country and shows no<br />
sign of stopping.<br />
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‘If you only plan to see one Elvis show this<br />
year make it this one!’ - Sunday World
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Sun - Thu 12pm-9pm<br />
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Fri 6th Sep, 5.30pm only<br />
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Captioned Performance<br />
Fri 6th Sep, 8.30pm
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nieSt Show in town<br />
evening<br />
standard<br />
HHHH<br />
Celebrating<br />
40 yearS of SuCCeSS,<br />
Still haS audienCeS<br />
roCking in<br />
the aiSleS!<br />
daily telegraph / jan 2013<br />
HHHHH<br />
it roCkS!<br />
a truly enduring and<br />
endearing<br />
maSterpieCe<br />
daily star sunday / jan 2013<br />
Photos by Manuel Harlan featuring some previous cast members.<br />
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Mon 2nd - Sat 7th Sept | Times: Mon-<br />
Thurs 8pm : Fri & Sat 5.30pm & 8.30pm<br />
Tickets: Mon-Thurs £12.50, £18.50,<br />
£23.50, £26.50, £32.50 concessions available<br />
Fri 5.30pm £19.50<br />
Fri 8.30pm & Sat (all shows) £15.00,<br />
£20.00, £25.00, £29.50, £34.00<br />
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Follow squeaky clean sweethearts Brad and<br />
Janet on an adventure they’ll never forget, with<br />
the scandalous Frank N Furter, rippling Rocky<br />
and vivacious Magenta. Get ready for a night of<br />
fun, frolics and frivolity in this thrilling new 40th<br />
Anniversary production of Richard O’Brien’s<br />
classic original script!<br />
Bursting at the seams with timeless classics,<br />
including Sweet Transvestite, Damn It Janet<br />
and, of course, the pelvic thrusting Time Warp,<br />
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show is a<br />
guaranteed non-stop party! Ready to thrill you<br />
with its frothy fun and naughty moments, this is<br />
the boldest bash of them all, so sharpen those<br />
stilettos for the rockiest ride of your life!<br />
Ben Forster, who won the ITV1 series Superstar<br />
and then went on to play the lead in Jesus<br />
Christ Superstar, will star as Brad. West End<br />
actor Oliver Thornton, who has appeared in<br />
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Phantom Of The<br />
Opera, Les Miserables, Chicago and Starlight<br />
Express, stars as the lead character Frank ‘n’<br />
Furter. Philip Franks, from The Darling Buds of<br />
May and Heartbeat, plays the Narrator.<br />
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Blue Eagle<br />
Productions<br />
presents<br />
The<br />
THEATRE<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
Londonderry<br />
25 September – 8 October<br />
Celebrating the life and<br />
work of the city’s oldest<br />
and foremost playwright<br />
Born in Londonderry in 1678, George<br />
Farquhar is one of the most enduring voices<br />
in world theatre. Best known for his restoration<br />
comedies, including The Recruiting Officer and<br />
The Beaux Stratagem, Farquhar’s plays are still<br />
performed the world over.<br />
The Festival will include two new theatre<br />
productions inspired by Farquhar’s writing:<br />
A Fresh Gale and Cold Chicken<br />
This new bitter-sweet comedy drama tells the story<br />
of the last few days of Farquhar’s young life in<br />
Mistress Kemp’s squalid apartment as he struggles<br />
to complete his masterpiece The Beaux Stratagem.<br />
Bunny’s Vendetta<br />
(After Farquhar’s Adventures Of Covent Garden)<br />
Set in a basement recording studio in London’s<br />
Tin Pan Alley at the start of the swinging 60’s, this<br />
adaptation of Farquhar’s novella Adventures Of Covent<br />
Garden is a comic story of love, intrigue and betrayal.<br />
Email info@ blueeagleproductions.co.uk or visit<br />
www.blueeagleproductions.co.uk
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Encóre<br />
Contemporary Choir<br />
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Sun 8th Sept | 8pm | Tickets : £10.50<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Encóre Contemporary Choir is fast becoming<br />
one of the most talked about ensembles the<br />
Maiden City has produced in recent years. With<br />
a unique and colourful take on contemporary<br />
music, Encóre brings something a little bit<br />
different to the City of Culture!<br />
Grand Season<br />
Opening Concert<br />
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Wed 11th Sept | 8pm | Tickets : £10.00,<br />
£14.50, £16.50, £19.50<br />
Concessions available (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Featuring Barry Douglas<br />
Under the baton of Ulster Orchestra’s Principal<br />
Conductor JoAnn Falletta, Barry Douglas makes a<br />
welcome return for tonight’s opening concert of<br />
the 2013/2014 season. As well as Liszt’s famous<br />
and dramatic First Piano Concerto, he plays a<br />
rarely heard work by a young Richard Strauss – a<br />
sparkling scherzo, influenced in style by the older<br />
composer and just as virtuosic to play. The concert<br />
opens with Glinka’s popular overture and ends<br />
with the majestic First Symphony by Brahms.<br />
Join them as they journey through the decades,<br />
from the 1950s to modern day, performing<br />
an eclectic mix of timeless standards and<br />
contemporary chart toppers from some of the<br />
world’s best loved artists. You’ll be serenaded<br />
by the exceptional warmth and energy of the<br />
fifty-strong choir, as well as an array of soloists<br />
and duos who will bring a more intimate<br />
element to the evening.<br />
*A contribution from this event’s proceeds will<br />
be made to Action of Hearing Loss, the choir’s<br />
charity of the year.<br />
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Games Expo<br />
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Thur 12th - Sat 14th Sept |<br />
Times & Tickets contact Box Office<br />
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In partnership with the CultureTECH Festival and<br />
Multiplay, the <strong>Millennium</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> will be Northern<br />
Ireland’s video games HQ this September as it<br />
hosts one of the largest gaming events ever held<br />
in the city.<br />
CultureTECH will be showcasing the very best in<br />
what gaming has to offer, with public games zones<br />
throughout the city, free-to-play casual gaming<br />
stations and dozens of tournament events across a<br />
mix of genres and platforms.<br />
Most events are completely free and open to the<br />
public and there will be games, tournaments and<br />
showcases suitable for everyone from children and<br />
families to casual players and serious gamers.<br />
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The Blame<br />
Game<br />
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Tue 17th & Wed 18th Sept | 7pm |<br />
Tickets : Free<br />
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Moondog Productions Ltd presents the hit<br />
news comedy panel show, The Blame Game,<br />
featuring comedians Tim McGarry, Colin<br />
Murphy, Neil Delamere and Jake O’Kane with<br />
special guests.<br />
Both shows will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Northern<br />
Ireland and BBC Radio Ulster. Tickets are free! If you would<br />
like to attend a recording at the <strong>Millennium</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> on any of<br />
the above dates, please apply for tickets at:<br />
bbc.co.uk/tickets<br />
Doors open at 6pm and will close at 6.45pm when there will be<br />
no admittance to the theatre. Tickets are not available at the<br />
<strong>Millennium</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> Box Office – only via the website address above.<br />
Funny at the<br />
<strong>Forum</strong><br />
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Fri 20th Sept | 7pm | Tickets : Free<br />
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Funny at the <strong>Forum</strong> presents the best of<br />
emerging and established standup comedy<br />
from Ireland both north and south of the<br />
border.<br />
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Ireland’s North<br />
West Irish Dancing<br />
Championships<br />
2013<br />
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Sat 21st & Sun 22nd Sept | 8am - late |<br />
Tickets : At the door<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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A spectacular array of competitive Irish<br />
Dancing running over two days. Over one<br />
thousand competitors from the UK, Republic<br />
of Ireland, Scotland, Europe and USA all<br />
competing for the coveted title of Ireland’s<br />
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A spectacular theatre and music event inspired by<br />
British philosopher Bertrand Russell<br />
Take a journey through some of the most dramatic events<br />
in the world’s recent history. Directed by acclaimed bosnian<br />
artist Haris Pasovic and starring an international cast<br />
supported by a local community choir.<br />
Opening performances<br />
21 & 22 September 2013<br />
The Venue, Derry~Londonderry<br />
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Icarus and King’s Theatre, Southsea present<br />
Othello:<br />
Moor of Venice<br />
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Tues 24th & Wed 25th Sept<br />
Time: Tues 10.30am & 8pm<br />
Wed 10.30am<br />
Tickets : £9.50, £12.00, £15.00<br />
concessions available Schools rate: £7.50<br />
(10.30am shows only) (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Directed by Max Lewendel<br />
A tempestuous journey from scandal and<br />
intrigue to lust and vengeance.<br />
Othello’s world will be brought vividly to<br />
life as a live string quartet and a stunning<br />
ensemble cast combine with some<br />
of literature’s most vibrant language<br />
and characters. A dangerous tale of<br />
ambition, jealousy and love will unfurl as<br />
Derek Ryan<br />
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Thur 26th Sept | 8pm | Tickets : £20.00<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Derek Ryan’s rise to become one of the<br />
biggest stars of Irish Country music has<br />
been phenomenal. Having played to sell<br />
out concert audiences around the world, the<br />
young heartthrob has brought a distinctive<br />
fresh sound to Irish Country.<br />
His theatre shows contain much of the music<br />
featured on his three albums along with<br />
new material that allows him to show off his<br />
guitar playing and expose his vocal quality.<br />
Shakespeare’s classic tale<br />
of deception hurtles to<br />
its dramatic and poignant<br />
conclusion.<br />
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Sat 28th Sept | 7pm |<br />
Tickets : £25.00<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Chaos FC in conjunction with<br />
Evolve Martial Arts is Derry’s only<br />
MMA/Cage fighting event.<br />
It promises to be an action<br />
packed night showcasing the<br />
cream of MMA talent in the<br />
Northwest and from across<br />
Ireland. The show will feature<br />
two times World Kickboxing<br />
champion, Tommy McCafferty.<br />
This man has hands of steel and<br />
has a clean MMA record.<br />
Don’t miss out, come and<br />
support your local fighters...<br />
The Five and the Prophecy of Prana is a Boy<br />
Blue Entertainment production, commissioned<br />
by Derry - Londonderry City of Culture 2013<br />
and Barbican, London. Co-produced by Les<br />
Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg<br />
The Five & the<br />
Prophecy of Prana<br />
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Wed 2nd & Thur 3rd Oct | Wed 7.30pm<br />
Thur 11.30am & 7.30pm<br />
Tickets: £10.00 concessions available<br />
Schools rate: £5.00 (11.30am show only)<br />
Group rate: Buy 10 get 11th free<br />
Family Ticket (2 adults, 2 children): £30.00<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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The Olivier Award winning-team behind<br />
Pied Piper and Barbican Associate Boy Blue<br />
Entertainment returns to the Barbican with<br />
the premiere of The Five and the Prophecy<br />
of Prana, a new narrative dance piece with<br />
an original story combining hip-hop, manga<br />
and martial arts. Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy<br />
(Choreographer) and Michael<br />
‘Mikey J’ Asante (Composer) are<br />
joined by award-winning Japanese<br />
manga artist Akio Tanaka.<br />
The production has been generously<br />
supported by Laban Theatre at<br />
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music<br />
& Dance and The Great Britain<br />
Sasakawa Foundation<br />
Image credit: Akio Tanaka<br />
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october 2013<br />
Moscow Ballet<br />
The Sleeping<br />
Beauty<br />
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Fri 4th Oct | 7.30pm |<br />
Tickets : £12.50, £17.50, £19.00, £22.00<br />
concessions available (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous music fills the air<br />
and wondrous characters come to life before<br />
your very eyes. Fairytale characters abound<br />
alongside a King, a Queen, Good and Evil<br />
Fairies, Fairies of Gold, Silver, Diamonds<br />
and Sapphire plus the inevitable handsome<br />
Prince, all of whom weave their magic.<br />
Princess Aurora, The Sleeping Beauty - a story<br />
lovingly repeated throughout generations<br />
but never before performed so magnificently<br />
as with this colourful spectacle of Russia’s<br />
finest…Moscow Ballet - La Classique.<br />
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Gymfusion<br />
Northern Ireland<br />
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Sat 5th Oct | 1pm | Tickets : £7.50;<br />
£5.50 concession available for under<br />
14s and Senior Citizens<br />
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GymFusion Northern Ireland is part of British<br />
Gymnastics National Festivals Programme.<br />
It has seen over 2000 performers take part<br />
in the non-competitive, show style festivals.<br />
‘Once Upon a Time’ themed events will include<br />
exciting and creative performances from all<br />
ages, abilities and disciplines of gymnastics,<br />
guaranteed to wow the audience.<br />
Encompassing the ethos of Gymnastics For<br />
All, GymFusion isn’t a competition but a<br />
collaboration and aims to give participants the<br />
opportunity to display their skills and talents<br />
as a team in a fun and friendly environment.<br />
Ardal O’Hanlon<br />
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Sun 6th Oct | 8pm | Tickets : £18.50,<br />
£20.50 (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Father Ted star, Ardal O’Hanlon is delighted<br />
to present his latest stand-up show for<br />
2013. The style is observational, the<br />
subject matter is Life itself, and the default<br />
expression is one of utter disbelief!<br />
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Lurking beneath Ardal’s mild-mannered<br />
demeanour resides a sharp and probing<br />
(and fairly mild-mannered) comic brain.<br />
Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes silly, but<br />
always punchy, he has tickled audiences all<br />
over the world. In a comprehensive set, he<br />
talks about not just the things that matter<br />
but also about the things that don’t matter<br />
at all. Which covers pretty much everything.<br />
N.B. 14+<br />
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Top of the World<br />
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Wed 9th Oct | 8pm | Tickets : £12.50,<br />
£15.00, £17.50 (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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2013 is the 30th anniversary of the death<br />
of Karen Carpenter and Kim Dickinson is<br />
celebrating the music of her idol in this<br />
nostalgic show.<br />
Kim transports her audiences with the<br />
natural and uncanny likeness of her voice to<br />
that of Karen Carpenter, delivering the songs<br />
that made The Carpenters famous.<br />
She has also opened the shows for The<br />
Overtones and The Beach Boys on recent<br />
visits to Ireland.<br />
Showband<br />
Memories<br />
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Thur 10th Oct | 8pm | Tickets : £19.50<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Showband Memories is a trip down memory<br />
lane that will relive the magic of the dance<br />
hall years. Hosted by popular broadcaster,<br />
Frank Galligan, this nostalgic show features<br />
some of the stars of yesteryear.<br />
Starring Derrick Mehaffey, Frankie McBride,<br />
Brian Coll, The Miami Showband and the<br />
Foyle Showband.<br />
Come along to relive some great memories<br />
of a magical and never to be repeated time<br />
in Irish popular music.<br />
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ABBA THE SHOW<br />
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Fri 11th Oct | 8pm | Tickets : £14.50,<br />
£17.00, £19.50 (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Dig out your flares and platform shoes for<br />
this truly dynamic and nostalgic show, taking<br />
you back to a time when glitter was great<br />
and satin cat-suits were all the rage! Brought<br />
to us by award winning group ‘Smackee’,<br />
this fabulous performance represents all that<br />
was wonderful from one of the world’s most<br />
famous pop supergroups. Featuring a string<br />
of unforgettable hits including ‘Waterloo’,<br />
‘Mama Mia’ and ‘Super Trooper’, this is<br />
definitely a show for all you Dancing Queens!<br />
Smackee are looking forward to returning to<br />
Derry to present the greatest Abba show of<br />
them all for their fans at the <strong>Forum</strong>.<br />
Duke Special<br />
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Sat 12th Oct | 8pm | Tickets : £19.50<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Duke Special and friends present a night of<br />
songs written or made famous by the late<br />
American songwriter, Harry Nilsson.<br />
Often described as the missing Beatle, Harry<br />
Nilsson was also named by John Lennon as<br />
his favourite American ‘band’.<br />
Special Guest<br />
Meadbh McGinley<br />
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The premier run of a brand new comedy with a<br />
sharp social and political bite from the pen of<br />
local playwright, Brian Foster, whose acclaimed<br />
plays include: Maire- A Woman Of Derry;<br />
The Butterfly Of Killybegs; and A Miracle In<br />
Ballymore.<br />
The action is set in Springtown Camp and<br />
Derry’s Guildhall back in 1963. Young radical<br />
socialist father of five, Harry Kelly, sick with his<br />
family’s impoverished living<br />
conditions, writes a nativity play<br />
for the local children to perform.<br />
But, with the eight-year-old<br />
children played by adult actors,<br />
Gerry Doherty, Carmel Mc Cafferty,<br />
Pat Lynch and Bill Waters, this will<br />
be a nativity play like no other.<br />
Add Seamas Heaney, Joanne<br />
O’Reilly and Shaunsy Coyle to<br />
the mix, and the scene is set for a<br />
night of politically incorrect, sidesplitting<br />
laughter! And buckets of tears too, as<br />
Brian Foster once again gives us his unique take<br />
on Derry working class ‘life and death’ humour.<br />
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Based on Oscar Wilde’s play, this hilarious work<br />
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Conducted, designed and directed by an<br />
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Written by Colin Bateman<br />
Penned by Colin Bateman (‘Divorcing Jack’,<br />
‘Murphy’s Law’), this brand new musical<br />
has been specially commissioned for 2013<br />
and directed by Des Kennedy (Once - the<br />
Musical, Vernon God Little).<br />
In 1981 Derry teenager Jimmy McMurphy<br />
escapes Northern Ireland by way of a<br />
student exchange <strong>programme</strong> to St. Francis<br />
Xavier High School in the US state of Iowa.<br />
Principal Truman expects to host a war<br />
damaged refugee, but instead finds himself<br />
confronted by an exuberant, spiky-haired<br />
punk rocker intent on bringing rock’’n’rolling<br />
anarchy to the school population - while<br />
breaking a few hearts along the way.<br />
But is Jimmy all he claims to be?<br />
Don’t miss this pulsating new musical!<br />
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The Musical<br />
Express<br />
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Sun 3rd Nov | 8pm | Tickets: £10.50<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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After successful concert tours to Africa<br />
and India, Toccata Musical Productions<br />
presents its latest production, The<br />
Musical Express. This two hour show will<br />
feature hits from the musicals Cats, Les<br />
Miserables, Sound of Music, Grease, We<br />
Will Rock You and many more.<br />
Performed by a professional cast of West<br />
End soloists and an orchestral ensemble<br />
backed by a fifty strong chorus, the<br />
evening is not to be missed. The concerts<br />
will support a cancer hospital in Sri- Lanka.<br />
Clubsound<br />
with Special Guest<br />
Jimmy Cricket<br />
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Sun 10th Nov | 8pm | Tickets: £12.50,<br />
£16.00, £18.50 (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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The Ballymoor Grousebeaters<br />
meets Ballygobackwards. A<br />
wonderful night of cabaret<br />
nostalgia featuring two of<br />
the North’s best loved cabaret acts Clubsound<br />
and Jimmy Cricket.<br />
Clubsound were the most successful showband<br />
group from Northern Ireland from the 1960s to<br />
the 1990s. The current line up features George<br />
Jones, David McKnight, Barry Woods, Alan<br />
McCartney and Jimmy Black.<br />
With comic songs like: Belfast, Belfast; Tonga<br />
LOL; Daddy’s Wee Balloons; Nigel Courtney;<br />
The Reluctant Exile and The Singing Farmer, all<br />
becoming sure fire favourites with<br />
crowds throughout Ulster’s<br />
thriving cabaret scene.<br />
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Christy Moore<br />
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Fri 15 & Sat 16 Nov | 8pm |<br />
Tickets: £33.00 (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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National treasure CHRISTY MOORE has<br />
confirmed he’ll return to play 2 Shows at the<br />
<strong>Millennium</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> this November.<br />
2013 has already been a busy year for the<br />
Irish music icon playing a string of sell<br />
out shows at Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy<br />
Theatre and Vicar St followed by 3 nights<br />
at the Waterfront in Belfast. This summer<br />
Christy Moore made a record-breaking 9th<br />
appearance at Cork Live At The<br />
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Mon 18th Nov | 8pm |<br />
Tickets : £10.50<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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The History Links Project comes together for<br />
the last time officially to mark the end of this<br />
four year IFI funded project. The project has<br />
seen people from the rural communities of<br />
Donegal, Tyrone and Derry/Londonderry meet,<br />
mix and learn from each other. This celebration<br />
event will comprise a mix of song, poetry,<br />
drama and readings as well as an exhibition<br />
of pictures and artifacts hosted in the theatre<br />
all week, all of which is created, compiled and<br />
curated by the project participants themselves.<br />
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Brendan at the<br />
Chelsea BY JANET BEHAN<br />
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Tue 19th & Wed 20th Nov | 8pm<br />
Tickets : £12.50, £17.50, £20.00<br />
concessions available (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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It is 1960s New York in legendary bohemian<br />
bolt hole, The Chelsea Hotel. Arthur Miller is<br />
just across the hall and the symphony of 24th<br />
Street is rising up and in through the open<br />
window of Brendan Behan’s room. He’s broke,<br />
hung over and way past the delivery date of his<br />
latest book, the first line of which he has yet to<br />
write. He was told to stop drinking or he’d be<br />
dead in six months – that was two years ago.<br />
Today is not going well. His mistress keeps<br />
ringing, the bills aren’t paid and a wire arrives<br />
from Dublin with the kind of news that’s<br />
guaranteed to put his blood pressure through<br />
the roof…<br />
Recommend 16+<br />
(contains some<br />
sexual content)<br />
“Adrian Dunbar is<br />
outstanding as the bitter,<br />
battered man, who’s burned<br />
his boats and is now at the<br />
mercy of the high seas.”<br />
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Thu 21st Nov | 8pm | Tickets: £5.50,<br />
£3.00 (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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The British Lung Foundation in Northern Ireland will<br />
be running a ten week singing project, Singing for<br />
Health, funded by Big Lottery /Arts Council of NI.<br />
The aim of the project is to positively improve<br />
the physical, mental and emotional well-being of<br />
participants with long terms lung conditions and<br />
their carers.<br />
Choir Facilitator, Sean Woods will be working with<br />
BLF NI and Western Health and Social Care Trust<br />
Respiratory Team to recruit up to 100 participants<br />
with lung conditions and their carers to the<br />
community choir.<br />
Come along to the event and enjoy an evening of<br />
singing whilst supporting those people living with<br />
a lung condition in your local community.<br />
To find out more about the British lung<br />
Foundation please visit www.blf.org.uk<br />
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Fri 22nd Nov | 8pm | Tickets: £13.50<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
Group rate: Buy ten get one free<br />
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The Londonderry Musical Society and<br />
Britannia Concert Band return to the <strong>Forum</strong><br />
to perform their Showstoppers musical<br />
extravaganza.<br />
The unique collaboration will showcase the<br />
best of local talent as 100 instrumentalists<br />
and singers take to the stage to perform.<br />
The <strong>programme</strong> will feature a selection of<br />
show tunes from stage and screen, including<br />
music from the best of Broadway and the<br />
West End.<br />
This 25th anniversary show is in aid of<br />
Carlisle Road Methodist Church and City<br />
Friends of Marie Curie.<br />
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Sat 23rd Nov | 8pm | Tickets : £20.00<br />
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Conal Gallen in his very own comedy play!<br />
Written by Conal and his son Rory, the action<br />
takes place in the household of Bridie and<br />
Willie Murphy, a couple who<br />
have fought the war of<br />
marriage for over 30 years! It is a love story<br />
unlike any other. Wandering eyes, wandering<br />
feet, wandering hands... it’s all here! Scenes of<br />
nudity have been carefully left out in this saga<br />
of sex, drugs and deception! Join Bridie, Willie,<br />
Dick and Cynthia... (yes, Cynthia!) as this tale of<br />
passion and intrigue unfolds. Early booking is<br />
very strongly advised!<br />
Tel: + 44(0)28 7137 2492<br />
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Maire A Woman<br />
Of Derry<br />
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Fri 29th Nov | 8.30pm |<br />
Tickets : £10.00, £12.50, £15.00<br />
(Includes Development Donation)<br />
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Due to huge demand, Carmel Mc Cafferty<br />
has agreed to return for what will be her<br />
last ever performance of Maire - A Woman<br />
Of Derry. After nearly twelve years playing<br />
the role she has made her own, Carmel has<br />
decided that the time has come to bring<br />
down the final curtain. And it will be final!<br />
This hilarious, harrowing and ultimately<br />
heartbreaking story has touched a raw nerve<br />
with audiences and critics alike since its<br />
debut performance some years back.<br />
Maire is foul-mouthed and feisty, but also<br />
intensely human. Armed<br />
only with her half-bottle of<br />
Mundies wine, she gives a<br />
unique account of her fall<br />
from grace from fresh faced<br />
teenage bride<br />
living in Derry’s<br />
Creggan Estate,<br />
to the pitiful condition<br />
we find her in today.<br />
N.B. This play contains<br />
strong language. Please do<br />
not come to be offended.<br />
This final<br />
performance will<br />
be professionally<br />
filmed for release<br />
on DVD in time<br />
for Christmas.
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Alan Davies<br />
Life Is Pain<br />
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Sat 30th Nov | 8.30pm | Tickets: £25.50<br />
Concessions available (Includes Development Donation)<br />
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“Alan Davies has lost none<br />
of his appeal…heart-tugging<br />
and deeply funny.”<br />
Big Issue<br />
Following the phenomenal success in 2012 of<br />
his critically acclaimed show, Life Is Pain,<br />
Alan Davies - the much-loved star of iconic<br />
television series such as Jonathan Creek and QI<br />
– makes his debut performance at the <strong>Forum</strong>.<br />
“One of the best<br />
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Join Peter, Wendy and the Darling Family on<br />
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where they meet Tinkerbell, Captain Hook,<br />
(played by William Caulfield) and his<br />
murderous motley crew. Who will walk the<br />
plank on the Jolly Rodger pirate ship?<br />
Peter Pan is packed with fantasy, bucketfuls<br />
of fun and amazing flying stunts. With a<br />
powerful mix of celebrity, music, dance<br />
and plenty of audience participation, it’s<br />
guaranteed to entertain and delight children<br />
of all ages!!<br />
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Fri 20th Dec, 7.30pm<br />
Fri 3rd Jan, 2.30pm<br />
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The <strong>Millennium</strong> <strong>Forum</strong>’s latest<br />
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McCrossan. Every 1st Friday<br />
evening in Café Aroma, Ray will<br />
host an “undiscovered” night<br />
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are just waiting to be found.<br />
Call in have a beer, a glass of wine or<br />
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1st Friday of every month starts<br />
Fri 6th Sep. Time: 9pm<br />
Comedian Danny McCrossan hosts<br />
a new comedy panel show that<br />
pits comedians against the public.<br />
Each month three comedians from<br />
across Ireland will compete against<br />
3 people from Derry in a general<br />
knowledge quiz; one will go through<br />
to the final, the rest are Halfwits.<br />
To compete in this new show, mail to<br />
halfwits@live.co.uk telling us why<br />
you think you’d be suitable.<br />
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2nd Friday of each month starts<br />
Fri 6th Sep. Time: 9pm | Adm: Free<br />
open mic<br />
comedy night<br />
Joining Danny<br />
McCrossan on stage<br />
are local and national<br />
comedy wannabes who<br />
are keen to give it a go!<br />
So you think you’re funny?<br />
Stand Up!<br />
Lets hear you!<br />
Mr Funny Man…or Funny Woman<br />
of course.<br />
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3rd Friday of every month, starts<br />
Fri 20th Sep. | 9pm | Adm: Free
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Jimeoin<br />
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Sat 7th Dec | 7.30pm | Tickets : £21.50<br />
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Hilarious world-class stand-up from<br />
internationally acclaimed star of ‘Live at<br />
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FSSD Xmas Show<br />
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Mon 9th & Tues 10th Dec | 7.30pm<br />
Tickets: At the door<br />
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The Foyle School of Speech and Drama has<br />
worked with children and young people in<br />
the City for over 25 years. In that time pupils<br />
have secured lead roles on the West End<br />
Stage as well as in film and television. The<br />
pupils finish up the City of Culture Year with<br />
an eclectic mix of the traditional Nativity<br />
Stories, Fairy tales and Panto sketches with<br />
not an adult in sight!<br />
A family night of fun and drama and an<br />
opportunity to see the stars of tomorrow.<br />
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Wed 11th Dec | 8pm | Tickets : £22.50<br />
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Following the sold out show here in the<br />
<strong>Forum</strong> in March, Nathan Carter Music Group<br />
Ltd present the Biggest Country star in<br />
Ireland, for a special Christmas Show.<br />
The affable twenty three year old singer<br />
has already recorded six successful albums<br />
to date, so expect to hear many of his hit<br />
songs, including ‘The Road Back’, ‘Wagon<br />
Wheel,’ ‘South Australia’, ‘Saw You Runnin’<br />
and many more tracks from his new album.<br />
Joining Nathan for this special Christmas<br />
show is the hugely popular<br />
Hugo Duncan.<br />
Christmas With<br />
The Priests<br />
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Sat 21st Dec | 8.30pm | Tickets :<br />
£25.00, £27.50, £30.00<br />
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The Priests are brothers Father Eugene and<br />
Father Martin O’Hagan, and Father David<br />
Delargy, who met at St MacNissi’s College,<br />
Garron Tower. The trio have been singing<br />
together ever since!<br />
The Priests will be touring Canada & the<br />
USA in the Autumn, and Frs Eugene, Martin<br />
and David are delighted to finish their tour<br />
at the <strong>Millennium</strong> <strong>Forum</strong>.<br />
As well as some much loved classics such<br />
as Ave Maria, Pie Jesu and Amazing Grace,<br />
The Priests will perform some of the most<br />
cherished seasonal songs - everything<br />
from Ding Dong Merrily On<br />
High to O Come All Ye<br />
Faithful, from Sussex<br />
Carol to Silent Night.<br />
Don’t miss this<br />
enchanting evening<br />
of music.<br />
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Mon 30th Dec | 8pm | Tickets : £22.50<br />
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Internationally renowned and multi-talented,<br />
Brian’s phenomenal 22-year career has<br />
covered: singer/songwriter, radio/TV host and<br />
lead performer on international stages from<br />
Riverdance on Broadway to Eurovision 2006.<br />
Belfast Legend, Van Morrison, invited Brian to<br />
a rehearsal one day that resulted in him being<br />
featured as guest lead singer on the now<br />
unforgettable ‘Blues & Soul Revue’.<br />
It’s easy to see why in 2012 he was one of<br />
the four coaches on The Voice Ireland. His<br />
recent album ‘VOICE’ entered the album chart<br />
at No. 3, cementing Brian’s reputation as an<br />
exceptional vocalist, guitar player, songwriter<br />
and interpreter.<br />
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CAR PARKING: Foyleside East Car Park is open<br />
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goers. There are a number of other car<br />
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five minute walk from the <strong>Forum</strong>, such as<br />
Whittaker Street Car Park (Just behind Foyle<br />
Street and next to the Foyle Street Bus Station),<br />
Queen’s Quay Car Park, Foyle Road, Foyle Valley<br />
Railway Museum, Bishop Street Car Park and<br />
Victoria Market Car Park. In total, there are in<br />
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DRINKS IN AUDITORIUM: For selected<br />
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The auditorium offers wheelchair<br />
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Some productions this season are captioned<br />
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This season will feature one relaxed<br />
performance of Peter Pan. Aspects of<br />
this performance – such as lighting and<br />
loud noises – will be modified or changed<br />
to suit those with special needs. The relaxed<br />
performance will take place at 2.30pm on Monday<br />
30th December and is open to all members of the<br />
public.<br />
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Rocky Horror Show Mon 2 - Sat 7<br />
Encóre Contemporary Choir Sun 8<br />
Ulster Orchestra: Grand Season Concert Wed 11<br />
Culture Tech Games Expo Thur 12 - Sat 14<br />
The Blame Game Tues 17 & Wed 18<br />
Funny At The <strong>Forum</strong> Fri 20<br />
Ireland’s NW Championships 2013 Sat 21 & Sun 22<br />
Othello Tues 24 & Wed 25<br />
Derek Ryan Thur 26<br />
Chaos 12 Sat 28<br />
The Five And The Prophecy<br />
Of Prana Wed 2 - Thur 3<br />
Moscow Ballet: Sleeping Beauty Fri 4<br />
Gymfusion Sat 5<br />
Ardal O’Hanlon Sun 6<br />
Top Of The World Wed 9<br />
Showband Memories Thur 10<br />
Smackee ABBA Fri 11<br />
Duke Special Sat 12<br />
Springtown Camp 1963! Wed 16 - Sat 19<br />
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Opera) Sat 26<br />
Teenage Kicks Fri 1 - Sat 9<br />
The Musical Express Sun 3<br />
Clubsound with Jimmy Cricket Sun 10<br />
Christy Moore Fri 15 & Sat 16<br />
History Links Project Mon 18<br />
Brendan @ the Chelsea Tue 19 & Wed 20<br />
Singing for Health Thur 21<br />
Showstoppers Fri 22<br />
Conal Gallen: A Bit On The Side Sat 23<br />
Maire A Woman Of Derry Fri 29<br />
Alan Davies: Life Is Pain Sat 30<br />
Peter Pan Fri 29 Nov - Sun 5 Jan 14<br />
Jimeoin Sat 7<br />
FSSD Xmas Show Mon 9 & Tue 10<br />
Nathan Carter & Band Wed 11<br />
Christmas With The Priests Sat 21<br />
Brian Kennedy Mon 30<br />
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