{"id":14675,"date":"2017-07-24T11:05:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=14675"},"modified":"2017-07-24T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:41:02","slug":"the-fun-fair-rolls-into-newtownabbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/07\/the-fun-fair-rolls-into-newtownabbey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fun Fair rolls into Newtownabbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Don\u2019t miss Theatre at The Mill\u2019s big summer musical production <strong><em>Carousel<\/em>, <\/strong>from Tuesday 1 \u2013 Saturday 5 August<strong>. <\/strong>Last year\u2019s big hit, <em>Phantom of the Opera<\/em>, received rapturous reviews and a glance at this year\u2019s rehearsals promises another great show.<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14679\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/press2-30-1024x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"190\" \/>A personal favourite of Rodgers and Hammerstein, <strong><em>Carousel <\/em><\/strong><em>i<\/em>s set in a Maine costal village where carnival barker and petty criminal Billy Bigelow is granted a wish to return from the afterlife for just one day.\u00a0 Bigelow encounters the daughter he never knew, now a lonely, friendless teenager, her father\u2019s reputation as a thief and a bully having haunted her all her young life.\u00a0How Bigelow instils in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.<\/p>\n<p>The hit creative team that gave us <em>Phantom of the Opera<\/em> last year, Director Anna McNamara and Musical Director Conor Mitchell, are joined by Movement Director Anna Tringham, Designer Stuart Marshall and Lighting Designer Alan Clarke.\u00a0 Under the baton of Conor Mitchell, Theatre at The Mill\u2019s ensemble of professional musicians complemented by some of Northern Ireland\u2019s most talented young musicians, bring life and lustre to this beautiful score.<\/p>\n<p>The ballet sequence will be performed by guest artists Ruaidhri Maguire from Opera Baltycka W Gdansku and Kanako Nagayoshi from Ballet Jorgen Canada, supported by young dancers from Laura Walker\u2019s Ballet School.<\/p>\n<p>Rodger\u2019s and Hammerstein\u2019s masterpiece includes hits like: <em>If I Loved You, June is Bustin Out All Over <\/em>and<em> You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>With nightly performances at 7pm from 1- 5 August and a matinee performance on Saturday 5 August at 2.30pm, this is a production not to be missed.\u00a0 Tickets \u00a315 &amp; \u00a313 (Concession) available at Box Office T: 028 9034 0202 or online\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreatthemill.com\"><em>www.theatreatthemill.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t miss Theatre at The Mill\u2019s big summer musical production Carousel, from Tuesday 1 \u2013 Saturday 5 August. Last year\u2019s big hit, Phantom of the Opera, received rapturous reviews and a glance at this year\u2019s rehearsals promises another great show. A personal favourite of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel is set in a Maine costal village &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/07\/the-fun-fair-rolls-into-newtownabbey\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14680,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions\/14680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}