Events at The Apex

1 Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3FD

Tel: 01284 758000

www.theapex.co.uk

Wed 1 Nov, 7.30pm

The Ladyboys of Bangkok

The country’s number one touring cabaret show returns with a lavish new production, ‘Who Runs The World’. Escape the drab greyness of everyday life and luxuriate in a colourful euphoric bubble of laughter, beauty, glitz and music.

£24

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Sat 4 Nov, 7pm, & Sun 5 Nov, 1pm & 5pm

Annie Jnr – The Musical

KD Theatre Productions & local talented young people star in this fun-filled musical adventure.

£16 (£13conc)

Tue 7 Nov, 7.30pm

Lulu

Lulu delivers a show packed full of her hits, new songs and songs that have influenced and guided her throughout her incredible career.

£45 (VIP £70)

Wed 8 Nov, 7.30pm

Mawkin

With a host of rebel rousing folk songs and instrumentals, the band modernise traditional folk material with their own ‘unapologetically energetic’ approach and DIY ethic, and excite audiences nationwide, with their artillery of loud, boisterous, foot stomping live sets.

£12

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Fri 10 Nov, 7pm

Festival of Remembrance

By The Royal British Legion with The Honington Voluntary Band

£12

Sat 11 Nov, 10am

There’s A Head in My Bed

The legend of St Edmund comes to life with storytelling & craft making for children aged 3-7. Make colourful items to assist you on the trail to find Ed’s head and his animal friends around town. Local author, Hatty Ashton, will guide you and your silly Saxons and valiant Vikings on an hour-long adventure filled with imagination and creativity.

Ticket price includes copy of ‘There’s a Head in my Bed’ (recommended retail price £8.99).

£12

Sat 11 Nov, 7.30pm

Eddi Reader

Famed for the Fairground Attraction single ‘Perfect’, Eddi’s subsequent solo career has seen her release the classic ‘Songs of Robert Burns’ album which she has toured all over the world. From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi brings joyous life to all forms of song and was awarded the MBE for services to music in 2006.

£23

Sun 12 Nov, 2pm

Boyface and the Uncertain Ponies

Boyface is a boy like most boys but more so – and different.  What makes him special is that his family use their magical machine to take the stripes off zebras so they can sell them as ponies.  When the ponies go Uncertain however, Boyface must solve the mystery and stop them turning into other things like teapots, Wendy houses and a giant banana called Misty!

Based on James Campbell’s excellent Boyface books, this is a delightfully silly piece of theatre full of songs and daftness.  Performed by the extremely talented and hard-working children of the Boyface Theatre Summer School.

£7 (£6 conc)

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Sun 12 Nov, 8pm

Fat Cat Comedy Club

See www.fatcatcomedyclub.com for line-up.

£12

Thu 16 Nov, 7.30pm

Ella Fitzgerald Centenary Concert

Liane Carroll – voted best singer in the British Jazz Awards 2016 and Claire Martin – voted best singer in 2015, come together to present this Centenary tribute to ‘The First Lady of Song’. Ella could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz, and imitate every instrument in an orchestra; she worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole, to Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman.

£23

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Sat 18 Nov, 7.30pm

Suffolk Sinfonia Autumn Concert

Berlioz: Les Francs Juges; Delibes: ‘Sylvia’ Suite from the Ballet; Franck: Symphony D minor

£12, £10, £4

Mon 20 Nov, 7.30pm

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita

Transparent Water is the exquisitely beautiful new collaboration between the seven-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist, composer and bandleader Omar Sosa from Cuba, and the award-winning Senegalese kora master and singer Seckou Keita. Sosa and Keita are both acclaimed musical adventurers with a rich global heritage that spans jazz, latin and African influences.

“an extraordinary album seamlessly melding Latin American and West African music” 4* Roger Farbey, All About Jazz

£18.50 (£5 U25s)

Mon 27 Nov, 7.30pm

The Blues Band

Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Rob Townsend, Gary Fletcher & Tom McGuinness.

Five virtuoso musicians, already music industry veterans, decided to fly in the face of musical fashion in 1979 and form a band ‘just to play the blues’. No one could have predicted that, 38 years on, they’d still be dazzling audiences with their showmanship and virtuosity. About 20 albums and thousands of gigs later, they’ve earned a reputation around the world as one of the finest exponents of the blues tradition in all its forms.

£22

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Tue 28 Nov, 1.15pm

Sincerely Yours – The Vera Lynn Story

Endorsed by Dame Vera Lynn, this show will take you through the amazing life of the forces sweetheart. Vera Lynn will be portrayed by Lorrie Brown, with video footage, a 7-piece live band and George Formby act.

£17.50

Tue 28 Nov, 7.30pm

Go West

With numerous 1980’s hits, including ‘We Close Our Eyes’, ‘Call Me’, ‘Goodbye Girl’, ‘Don’t Look Down’ & ‘King Of Wishful Thinking’ from the hugely successful film ‘Pretty Woman’.

£32.50

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Wed 29 Nov, 7pm-9.30pm

Booze & Brushes Paint Night

Choose a painting, then be guided through the process step by step. All materials included (except alcohol!) and you take home your very own 16” x 20” masterpiece. A fun painting class for everyone, no experience necessary.

£25

 

Wed 29 Nov, 8pm

Cara Dillon

Upon A Winter’s Night: magical and memorable festive experience with classic Carols, Celtic Hymns and other Christmas songs.

£22

Thu 30 Nov, 8pm

The South

When great British pop institution, The Beautiful South split in 2007, some members of the band weren’t quite ready to hang up their microphones or instruments….…and so The South was born. Alison Wheeler & Gaz Birtles perform Beautiful South songs  and great songs of their own, including: ‘A Little Time’, ‘Perfect 10’, ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Old Red Eyes’ & ‘Don’t Marry Her’.

£27.50 / £25

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