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           <title>Jimmy Cricket to headline special anniversary variety show in Blackburn</title>
           
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  COMEDIAN Jimmy Cricket will headline a special variety show next month to mark the 10th anniversary of the official opening of Blackburn’s Thwaites Empire Theatre.
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           <title>Auditions for Oswaldtwistle's Christmas shows</title>
           
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  YOUNG people are being invited to audition to take part in Christmas shows.
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           <title>Burnley panto announced</title>
           
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  THIS year’s production for Sion Pantomime Society has been announced.
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           <title>Change of programme for Blackburn Arts Club</title>
           
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  A change has been made to the opening play of Blackburn Arts Club’s 2012-13 season.
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  BLACKBURN Musical Theatre Company is this week occupying the charity shop in the former Vall Hall Jewellers shop, in King William Street.
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           <title>Queen thanks Bacup singers for royal concert</title>
           
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  MEMBERS of Bacup Operatic and Dramatic Society are toasting the Queen after receiving a letter of thanks for their tribute to her Diamond Jubilee earlier this summer.
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           <title>Young performers hone their skills</title>
           
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  YOUNG performers honed their skills to present a new take on some classic tales at the Drama Circle’s summer workshop.
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           <title>What's on - June 15</title>
           
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  LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN — Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Saturday, May 19 to Saturday, June 23.
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           <title>'Nation's tenor' goes on tour</title>
           
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  FRESH from his success in the year’s top live show — the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert — Lancashire’s own Alfie Boe has announced his biggest ever UK tour for next year.
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           <title>Search is on for East Lancashire singing talent</title>
           
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  EAST Lancashire’s answer to The X Factor is launched tonight with the first of five contests to find a star of tomorrow.
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           <title>Clitheroe girl 'too tall' to star in award-winning musical Matilda</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[AN 11-year-old from Clitheroe came within reaching distance of playing the lead role in the award-winning West End show, Matilda the Musical.]]></description>
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           <title>WHAT'S ON: Stage Diary</title>
           
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           <title>What's On: Little Shop of Horrors, Blackburn</title>
           
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  GO down on Skid Row, to see Rossendale Amateur Operatic Society’s 2012 musical.
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           <title>What's On: Calendar Girls, Chorley</title>
           
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  ‘SISTERS are doing it for themselves’ at Chorley Little Theatre, with auditions taking place for Calendar Girls on Sunday at 11am.
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           <title>Barrowford mother and son nominated for NODA North West awards</title>
           
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           <title>90 years of magic as Blackburn's King George’s Hall reaches another special milestone</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[As East Lancashire’s largest entertainment venue King George’s Hall celebrates its 90th anniversary we takes a look through the history books at the famous Blackburn landmark.]]></description>
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           <title>New rules to be drawn up before Colne hypnotism show can go ahead</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[A TV hypnotist has forced town hall chiefs in Pendle to rewrite their rules after booking a show at Colne Muni.]]></description>
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           <title>VAMP it up with Buckshaw's new theatre company</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[NEWLY-formed amateur dramatics group Buckshaw Village Amateur Musical Performers (VAMP) is holding its first auditions on Saturday, for its production of The Best Little Nightclub In Chorley.
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           <title>Blackburn students wow Edinburgh fringe</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[A TALENTED group of performers have been wowing audiences at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival and have been nominated for a top award.
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           <title>East Lancashire teenager wins Young Magician of the Year title</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[AN up-and-coming magician wowed some of the country’s top illusionists to take the Young Magician of the Year title. ]]></description>
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           <title>Blackburn theatre’s new manager sets stage for bright future</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[AS the new man in charge of the Blackburn's Thwaites Empire Theatre, Paul Mason is acutely aware of the special postion he is in.
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           <title>Princely gift to mark Blackburn theatre company's 100 years</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[AN 85-year-old programme has been handed to Blackburn Musical Theatre Company as it prepares to celebrate its centenary year.
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           <title>Blackburn teenager set for prestigious dance school</title>
           
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           <title>Theatre group forged in the ashes of Burnley riots</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[A GROUP of actors, writers and performers who first worked together in the aftermath of the 2001 Burnley riots are set to showcase a new work as part of a Manchester fringe festival.
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           <title>The Lancashire woman who's driving the Manchester International Festival</title>
           
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           <title>Blackburn comic Tez through to semi-finals</title>
           
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           <title>Peter Kay fans boost Blackburn girl's cancer battle</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  Peter Kay has boosted a life-saving campaign for a six-year-old cancer battler by £10,000 – after letting her ‘av’ ticket proceeds from two warm-up shows.
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           <title>East Lancashire’s best theatrical talents take on rest of North West</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[PERFORMERS across East Lancashire are counting down to the North West amateur theatre world’s Oscars.
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           <description><![CDATA[THIS weekend Clitheroe Grand marks its third anniversary. We look back at the past three years which have seen the former cinema become a leading live music venue of the North West.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[A CHOREOGRAPHER from East Lancashire has been recognised among the best in theatre after picking up a Laurence Olivier Award.
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