More festival shows expected to sell out

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33791, 13 March 1975, Page 18

More festival shows expected to sell out

The Merely Players satirical revue. “Christopher Robin Goes Off With Alice.”'continues to draw heavy bookings. \|| this week's performances are sold out. and over the following four days, an average of 10 seats only each evening are unbooked.

Cilla Black’s four performances are now sold out, and bookings for the second week of the Christchurch Arts Festival are becoming heavier each day. After the week-end a lot more performances of shows are expected to be sold out, including all the performances of the Merely Players revue. “The Marriage of Figaro” is drawing solid bookings, but it seems likely that most performances of the opera

will accommodate door sales I until opening time. Six performances of two programmes by the New Zealand Ballet Company in the Theatre Royal are receiving mounting support, although : bookings were slow' to move. NEW WORK ! Programme one includes ; Con Amore, Concrete Barocco, Dance Pictures and a . new work by the New Zea- . land choreographer Anne Rowse. Programme two pre-

sents Pineapple Poll. Drum Duet. Grand Pas Hongoris.

and a newly commissioned work by the New Zealand i choreographer Dierdie Tarrant. 1 Peter Nero’s single evening concert on Tuesday promises to be a well-filled house, and the New Zealand Symphony ! Orchestra's lunch-time concert on March 20 is well- ! booked already. Bookings for the dramatic musical “Our Scene” written and produced by two local [teachers, and performed by 350 Intermediate School children in the auditorium, ! picked up for its second and final performance last evenj ingBookings for the two Sun--1 dav performances in the audii torium of the sweet rock gospel musical “Saultalk,” the istory of Saul of Tarsus, are I steady. I Queues outside the Town IHall booking office are swellling daily. Although the booking office closes daily at 4.30 p.m. demand for tickets is postponing closing time furI ther each day. Yesterday the [office closed at 6 p.m. Typically, patrons were I leaving booking until the last 'minute, so that pressure at the booking office was becoming hectic, said the office [spokesman. Door sales were also popular.