Theatre Royal Waterford
- Waterford Musical Society South Pacific
Tuesday 30th April – Saturday 4th May at 8pm to 10pm
Award winning Waterford Musical Society proudly presents South Pacific.
Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war.
Nellie, a US Navy nurse, falls in love with a mature, French plantation owner Emile, whom the Navy wishes to employ as a scout for a dangerous mission to a nearby island. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, she struggles to accept his mixed-race children and refuses Emile’s proposal of marriage.
Meanwhile, out of the same fears that haunt Nellie, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself love with an innocent native girl, Liat.
When Emile is recruited to join Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe’s life, Nellie realizes that life is too short not to seize her own chance for happiness and in doing so confronts and conquers her prejudices.
Tickets price: Preview Tuesday: €16.00
Stalls & Dress Circle & Upper Circle (A-C): €21.00
Upper Circle (D-E): €20.00
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- Those Hucklebuck Days: The Story of The Showband Years
Sunday 5th May at 3pm
The second in our Sunday Afternoon Concert series at the Theatre Royal, Those Hucklebuck Days: The Story of The Showband Years is a heady tribute to pure nostalgia as we revisit those hits that played each day on the radio and dominated the ballrooms of romance, like Waterford’s Olympia or The Atlantic in Tramore.
From Tom Jones to Dickie Rock, Eileen Reid to Dusty Springfield, relive your memories as we pay homage to the heady days of the great showband craze in Ireland and, more specifically in Waterford. The Great Singalong Songbook stars Linda Kenny and Damian Smith, MC Alf McCarthy, and our fabulous Songbook Band (MD Alan Carney), are joined by our very own Showband Legend, Art Supple of the Victor Showband.
Tickets price: €19
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Theatre Royal Waterford, The Mall, Waterford.
Contact: 051 874 402