Yorkshire based show comes to Sheffield
Buy tickets and support Cash for Kids
Ellesmere Musical Theatre Company are having their 70th anniversary this year and to celebrate are producing ‘Betty Blue Eyes’, a show set in Yorkshire in 1947, the very same year they started.
The show will be taking place at the Montgomery Theatre in Sheffield from 21st-25th March 2017 with proceeds going to Hallam FM’s Cash for Kids.
Betty Blue Eyes is based on the popular 1984 Alan Bennett film A Private Function (Michael Palin, Maggie Smith). It is set in post war Britain where belts are tightened and the country’s long suffering citizens are being told that there will be fair shares for all in return for surviving Austerity Britain. In a delicious comedy of manners the show centres on a sweetly hopeless chiropodist and his waspish, socially ambitious wife – who is certain he could do better for himself if he only had the gumption. Meanwhile a greedy set of self-important local councillors want to celebrate the upcoming royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip with more than rationed Spam on the menu. Their private function will have best pork. Cue the eponymous Betty – a cute, but unlicensed pig, being reared illegally to grace the table. But will she really be eaten or will they be found out?
The show originally starred Sarah Lancashire (Coronation Street, Happy Valley) and its toe-tapping score comes from George Stiles and Anthony Drewe who so successfully updated Mary Poppins for the West End.
To book tickets please visit their website here or call 0114 2364487.