Award-winning musical Mary Poppins will return to the stage for a UK tour that brings the show to the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh from April 27-May 21, 2016.
The stage version - with a book by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and an original timeless score by Richard M and Robert B Sherman - originally opened in London's West End in 2004, where it ran for three years, winning Olivier, Evening Standard and Variety Club awards. It then transferred to Broadway for a six-year run, where it won the Tony Award for Best Set Design.
Producer Cameron Mackintosh has promised that this latest production will offer even more than the version that came to the Edinburgh Playhouse in 2008. "Since we originally staged the production," he said, "we have found even more magical ways to stage this timeless tale."
Tickets for next year's Festival Theatre dates go on general sale on May 4.
www.edtheatres.com
Cowal Music Club welcomes the Gildas Quartet as its next guests on Sunday, March 8 for a programme of Mozart, Janá�ek and Beethoven. The quartet, which comprises Christopher Jones and Gemma Sharples (violins), Kay Stephen (viola) and Anna Menzies (cello), is widely regarded as being among the most exciting young ensembles to emerge in recent years and has performed across the UK and Europe to considerable acclaim.
The concert takes place at Cowal Golf Club in Dunoon and begins at 3pm.
www.cowalmusicclub.co.uk
Tickets for this summer's T in the Park go on sale at 9am tomorrow morning from the festival's website. Earlier this week Mark Ronson, Everything Everything, Marmozets, Rae Morris, Jack Savoretti, Saint Raymond and Scottish indie-folkers Admiral Fallow, pictured, were added to the bill. Kasabian, The Libertines and Noel Gallagher's Flying Birds have already been announced as headliners for the festival's first year in its new home at Strathallan Castle.
www.tinthepark.com
Youth trad orchestra the Gordon Duncan Experience pays homage to its roots on Sunday, March 15 when it performs an intimate gig at Birnam Arts Centre, just down the A9 from the Pitlochry home of its musical inspiration, the late piper and composer Gordon Duncan.
Now in its fifth year, the group of 13-to-18-year-olds is based at Perth Concert Hall and is led by pianist-composer-arranger David Milligan and supported by tutors including musicians from folk bands Rura, Cherrygrove and Elephant Sessions and jazz-folk orchestra Fat-Suit. The orchestra specialises in arrangements of Gordon Duncan tunes as well as playing a repertoire drawn from traditional, rock, jazz and classical music.
www.birnamarts.com
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