insideKENT Magazine issue 94 - January2020 | Page 16

EVENTS TASSELS – AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE 10-12 JAN SLEEPING BEAUTY 12 JAN RAZORLIGHT EM Forster Theatre, Tonbridge www.emftheatre.com Time: Various | Price: £16 Margate Winter Gardens, Margate www.margate-live.co.uk Time: 7.30pm | Price: £23.50 In a tale of exploding cakes and magic wands, full of romance and adventure, Sleeping Beauty transports you to the wonderful world of Pantoland... Featuring a West End band, stunning sets and a devilishly dazzling dragon, The Talentz Youth Company return to Tonbridge with their festive pantomime. Commanding over a million monthly listeners on Spotify and having played to huge crowds at over 20 festivals in the UK and Europe this summer, Razorlight now make their way to Margate this January. With a female keyboard player in the band and a 2020 album in the pipeline, Razorlight are happily heading into the next decade with the confidence, energy and wilfulness which drove their initial success in full effect. 11 JAN TASSELS – AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/ hazlitt-theatre Time: 7.30pm | Price: £25 An Evening of Burlesque is back in town with a dazzling new production! So leave your inhibitions at the door and prepare to experience the UK’s biggest burlesque extravaganza. With a bevy of beautiful burlesque stars, speciality variety artists and fabulous costumes An Evening of Burlesque, revives this classic variety artform into the 21st Century with a glamorous new show. 16 17 JAN 90S VS 00S TRIBUTE Mercure Tunbridge Wells Hotel, Tunbridge Wells www.mercuretunbridgewells.co.uk Time: 7pm | Price: £25 Get ready for a night to be taken back to these great eras, with this high energy 90s vs 00s show. A great post-Christmas get together to keep the celebration rolling on, getting you up to dance and sing along to all those hits you thought you’d forgotten! Includes an arrival cocktail and meal, followed by Mercure Tunbridge Wells’ Tribute Trio. With costume changes and a disco – there isn’t a better way to start the new year! 17 JAN TWIST AND SHOUT Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks www.stagsevenoaks.co.uk Time: 7.30pm | Price: £24 A fun-packed musical journey back to the Swinging Sixties! Return to a time when skirts got shorter and hair got longer, as an incredible all-star cast from the West End deliver a musical powerhouse of a show; starting with the explosion of British pop music from 1962 through to the era of Flower Power and Free Love of the late Sixties. Superb performances and beautiful bespoke costumes return you to the sights and sounds of the Swinging Sixties with hits from The Beatles, Herman's Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Rolling Stones, Cilla Black, Manfred Mann, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Sandy Shaw and many more.