With this exclusive packaged meal deal you will recieve a ticket to "Buddy" at the Duchess Theatre and a Keith Prowse Dinearound meal voucher, valid for a 2 course meal for one person at one of a selection of top London restaurants.

Buddy
The long running rock ‘n’ roll musical biography of 50s recording star Buddy Holly, returns to London in August for a West End run at the Duchess theatre.

Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, to give it its full title, is a musical journey through the tragically short career of young rock ‘n’ roll star Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash in February 1959 aged 22. Charting the three years from the musician’s first recording contract through his move to New York and the fatal tour of Midwest America with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, the show sees Buddy singing his way from the recording studio in Nashville Tennessee to Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, culminating in a live rock ‘n’ roll finale at the Winter Dance Party. Along the way the musical features over 20 of Buddy’s greatest hits including Peggy Sue, That’ll Be The Day, Oh Boy, Rave On, Heartbeat and Raining In My Heart.

Buddy is written by Alan Janes and Rob Bettinson, who produce and direct the production respectively.

Dinearound meal voucher

Keith Prowse Ticketing demands the highest of standards for our clients and a selection of restaurants have been carefully selected for your enjoyment.

Be it lunch, pre-theatre, post-theatre or an evening out we hope that you have a very pleasant meal whilst enjoying the pleasures in one of the world’s most exciting cities.

Voucher Valid until 31st March 2008.

Participating Restaurants

FIRE & STONE
31-32 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden
London WC2E 7JS
Nearest Tube: Covent Garden, Leicester Square

CUISINE: Gourmet Pizza
Reservations must be made 24 hours in advance on 020 7257
8625 and are subject to availability.

DESCRIPTION: One of London’s most exciting and talked
about new restaurants; a stunning pizza restaurant in the heart of Covent Garden. Set over 2 floors, this superbly designed restaurant has room for up to 250 diners and offers pizzas like no other London pizza restaurant and is now one of London’s leading pizza restaurants.

Closest Theatres: Dominion Theatre, Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, New London Theatre, Prince Edward Theatre.

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KATANA AT THE INTERNATIONAL
116 St. Martins Lane
London WC2N 4BF
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square, Charing Cross

CUISINE: Pan Asian & Oriental
Reservations must be made 24 hours in advance on 020 7257
8625 and are subject to availability.

DESCRIPTION: The International’s first floor restaurant,
Katana, is a contempory, yet very relaxed dining space, offering some of the best pan Asian and Oriental food in the West End.

Closest Theatres: Dominion Theatre, Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, New London Theatre, Prince Edward Theatre.

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LA LOCANDA
35 Heddon Street, London W1
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7734 6689
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus

CUISINE: Italian

DESCRIPTION: Enjoy a varied Italian menu within a rustic and
relaxed atmosphere.

Closest Theatres: Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly Theatre, Apollo Theatre. Lyric Theatre, Queens Theatre, Gielgud Theatre.

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MAXWELLS
8/9 James Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8BH
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7379 6132
Nearest tube: Covent Garden

Cuisine: American

DESCRIPTION: Nestled snugly alongside Covent Garden’s
Royal Opera House just opposite the Underground station, the
spacious, two-tiered restaurant and bar with its irreverent
murals, artwork and rock memorabilia oozes a warm,
welcoming and relaxed feel. Outside seating now allows diners to bask, lizard-like, in the street-level sun and watch the herds of performing artists and professional shoppers as they dart around the famous Piazza.

Closest Theatres: Novello Theatre, New London Theatre, Adelphi Theatre, Duchess Theatre, Savoy Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Vaudeville Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, Aldwych Theatre, Fortune Theatre.

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NAVAJO JOE
34 King Street, London WC2E 8JD
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7240 4008
Nearest tube: Covent Garden

CUISINE: Mexican

DESCRIPTION: Named after a legendary Indian character,
Navajo Joe's offers a bold and colourful interior highlighted by native artifacts as well as the world’s largest tequila bar.

Closest Theatres: Novello Theatre, New London Theatre, Adelphi Theatre, Duchess Theatre, Savoy Theatre, Garrick Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Vaudeville Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, Aldwych Theatre, Fortune Theatre.

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PALM COURT BRASSERIE
39 King Street, London WC2E 8JS
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7395 5803
Nearest tube: Covent Garden

CUISINE: Mediterranean

DESCRIPTION: Established over 10 years ago and positioned in
the heart of Theatreland, the Palm Court Brasserie guarantees its reputation as one of Covent Garden's most established dining experiences. The interior of Palm Court Brasserie is crafted to create a serene, classically 1920s art deco Parisien style environment.

Closest Theatres: Novello Theatre, New London Theatre, Adelphi Theatre, Duchess Theatre, Savoy Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Vaudeville Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, Aldwych Theatre, Fortune Theatre.

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P.J.'S RESTAURANT & BAR
30 Wellington Street, London WC2E 7BD
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7240 7529
Nearest tube: Covent Garden

CUISINE: American

DESCRIPTION: Offering old-fashioned American dining in a
warm yet 'buzzy' interior. Most authentic American style grill this side of the Atlantic.

Closest Theatres: Novello Theatre, New London Theatre, Adelphi Theatre, Duchess Theatre, Savoy Theatre, Garrick Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Shaftesbury Theatre, Aldwych Theatre.

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ROADHOUSE (18yrs + only)
35 The Piazza, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8BE
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7240 6001
Nearest tube: Covent Garden

CUISINE: American

Description: Roadhouse avoids definition, sidesteps convention and plays hopscotch with expectation. It’s big, but it’s intimate. It’s a raw, vibrant, music Mecca; the food is brilliant, the service second to none, the atmosphere unrivalled and the cocktails stupendous.

Closest Theatres: Novello Theatre, New London Theatre, Adelphi Theatre, Duchess Theatre, Savoy Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Vaudeville Theatre, Aldwych Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, Fortune Theatre.

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TANDOORI NIGHTS
35 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5TB
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7831 2558
Nearest tube: Covent Garden, Holdorn

Cuisine: Indian

DESCRIPTION: Traditional Indian cuisine, in a restaurant with a modern décor and very friendly staff. Highly recommended by Egon Ronay and Curry Club of Great Britain.

Closest Theatres: Novello Theatre, New London Theatre, Adelphi Theatre, Duchess Theatre, Savoy Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Vaudeville Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, Aldwych Theatre, Fortune Theatre.

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TUTTONS BRASSERIE BAR & RESTAURANT
11-12 Russell Street, Covent Garden,
London WC2B 5HZ

CUISINE: Modern European

Reservations must be made 24 hours in advance on 020 7257
8625 and are subject to availability.

DESCRIPTION: Renowned for its Modern European cuisine,
Tuttons offers something for everyone and every taste, with a superb selection of meat and fish dishes as well as some great vegetarian and children’s options. Daily specials are announced on the restaurant’s large blackboard and are all very reflective of the season and weather and ensure that the choice is always interesting and diverse.

Closest Theatres: Novello Theatre, New London Theatre, Adelphi Theatre, Duchess Theatre, Savoy Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Vaudeville Theatre, Aldwych Theatre, Shaftesbury Theatre, Fortune Theatre.

Restaurants may be closed without notice - please call in
advance. Food illustrated is for artistic effect only. Terms and conditions apply, subject to change/availability.

International television and film star Pamela Anderson joins illusionist Hans Klok – the world’s fastest magician — in The Beauty of Magic, the new show at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino Theater for the Performing Arts.

"The stage spectacular will combine the illusions of Klok, fresh off his sold-out European tour with brand new illusions created just for Las Vegas, with the electrifying Anderson in a completely new and unique production," stated press notes.

"I love magic! I love doing things out of the ordinary and of course I'm always up for an adventure, as this will definitely be one,” said Anderson, the former “Baywatch” star. “I knew that one day my dream of being a Vegas showgirl would come true — even better a magician’s assistant. It’s every girl’s fantasy. I'm thrilled!"

After performing his first magic trick at the age of ten, Hans Klok went on to win a number of magician championships as a young man, including the European Youth Magician Champion Trophy, the Tommy Cooper Trophy and first prize at the Grand Prix of The Netherlands. He soon began to appear on television specials in both Europe and the United States, including “The World’s Greatest Magic” on NBC and “The Masters of Magic” on ABC. Now hailed as the fastest magician in the world and “The Dutch Copperfield,” Klok’s live stage shows have been selling out large arenas throughout Europe and Asia for the past decade.

Must be at least 8 years of age to enter.

With incomparable comedic timing and a uniquely edgy and energetic style, Gordie Brown takes audiences on a hilarious joyride where the laughs start fast and never stop. Brown has left audiences around the world laughing in the aisles as he brings together his engaging comedy and mastery of impersonation. Accompanied by his sizzling five-piece band, Gordie Brown’s performance is a breathless combination of comedy and music that draws from generations of your favorite stars, politicians, and pop culture icons. A performer that defies description and a show unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Get your laugh on with Gordie Brown at The Venetian.

The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most popular plays ever written. Subtitled ‘A trivial comedy for serious people’, it is bursting with hilarious lines and extraordinary twists of fate and sparkles with the witty dialogue of its genteel protagonists.

Prim-and-proper Jack Worthington is in love with the equally prim-and-proper Gwendolyn Fairfax. His friend, Algernon Moncrieff, is in love with Cecily Cardew. But both Gwendolyn and Cecily are in love with Ernest. Add the magnificently imposing Lady Bracknell, a nanny with a dubious story about a handbag and the result is a delightful entertainment as fresh and funny as when it was first performed in 1895.

Penelope Keith, one of Britain’s best-loved actresses, was born to play Lady Bracknell. Her many previous theatre appearances include Time and the Conways, Blithe Spirit, Entertaining Angels and Relatively Speaking. Her numerous television series include the hugely successful The Good Life and To the Manor Born.

Peter Gill is one of our most distinguished and acclaimed directors. At the Royal Court Theatre in the sixties, he was responsible for introducing D H Lawrence’s plays to the theatre, and was the founding director of Riverside Studios and the National Theatre Studio. He has directed more than eighty productions in the UK. Europe and North America.

Ain't a man's talking big what makes him big – long as he makes folk believe it? Sure I talks large when I ain't got nothing to back it up.
Southern American ex-convict, Brutus Jones, aided by his double-crossing British ally, Smithers, connives his way into an uncompromising dictatorship over a remote island in the West Indies. Faced with a terrifying people's revolt, the delusional Emperor escapes to the dark forest and a promise of salvation.
But in the searing heat and to the ominous pulse of his trackers' drums, Jones is driven to make his way through every lead bullet in his gun, right down to the silver one he is saving for himself.
O'Neill's controversial 1920 play is by turns shocking and mesmerising. Thea Sharrock's production for The Gate was a theatrical highlight of 2005 and she now reconceives it for the Olivier, with Paterson Joseph reprising one of the most critically acclaimed performances of recent years.
'A shattering piece of theatre' Guardian
'Paterson Joseph is magnificent' Independent

The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most popular plays ever written. Subtitled ‘A trivial comedy for serious people’, it is bursting with hilarious lines and extraordinary twists of fate and sparkles with the witty dialogue of its genteel protagonists.
Prim-and-proper Jack Worthington is in love with the equally prim-and-proper Gwendolyn Fairfax. His friend, Algernon Moncrieff, is in love with Cecily Cardew. But both Gwendolyn and Cecily are in love with Ernest. Add the magnificently imposing Lady Bracknell, a nanny with a dubious story about a handbag and the result is a delightful entertainment as fresh and funny as when it was first performed in 1895.
Penelope Keith, one of Britain’s best-loved actresses, was born to play Lady Bracknell. Her many previous theatre appearances include Time and the Conways, Blithe Spirit, Entertaining Angels and Relatively Speaking. Her numerous television series include the hugely successful The Good Life and To the Manor Born.
Peter Gill is one of our most distinguished and acclaimed directors. At the Royal Court Theatre in the sixties, he was responsible for introducing D H Lawrence’s plays to the theatre, and was the founding director of Riverside Studios and the National Theatre Studio. He has directed more than eighty productions in the UK. Europe and North America.

Consistently funny, Jason is one of the most exciting and popular stand-up comics on the UK and international comedy scene. Now he is bringing his brand new sell-out show to London’s West End.

“I saw Jason Byrne for the first time the other week. I had never seen him before then, but he is a star. I couldn’t begin to describe his material other than to say that when he stands in front of people for more than 20 seconds they begin to laugh out loud – and they don’t stop until he goes away. Jason Byrne is such a mad hybrid, so instinctual that above everything else, you are just blown away by the sheer force of his talent and charisma.”
The Independent

“Watching Jason Byrne on stage is like watching Ronaldinho play for Barcelona. It’s not a matter of if the magic will come, but when and how often. He’s effortlessly masterful. If you leave disappointed from this show, don’t ever bother going to see comedy again.”
Edinburgh Evening News

'Awesome, amazing, brilliant, hilarious and the outright King of Live Comedy.'
The Times

'Part Spike Milligan, part Duracell Bunny…total genius'  
Independent

'If you're not on the floor helpless with laughter… you're probably dead!'
The List

Mark Watson deserves his moment. Having proved to be one of the true innovators on the Fringe with his marathon comedy sessions, off-the-cuff novel writing and participation in daft quizzes, his solo hour of stand-up has grown in stature and scope in successive years and now he is playing in one of the Courtyard’s biggest rooms, promoted from the sweatboxes to a grand theatre space. This is both a tribute to his talent and cause for a slight qualification; much of Watson’s show relies on any given punchline being pushed on a line or two. In the intimate rooms, this is all fine and good, but in this vast expanse, much of the material loses its impact, drowned out in the cascading waves of laughter.

But this is a minor quibble in a set which exhilarates from its democratic beginning as he springs like an über-Welsh jack-in-the-box from the middle of the crowd before eventually making his way to the stage. From there, he launches into the show’s beef, inspired by his last birthday when a series of unfortunate incidents appeared to be sparked by a chance encounter with an evangelist whose impertinent query spawned the show’s typically elongated title, Can I Briefly Talk to You About the Point of Life?

There is, of course, nothing brief in the way Watson ekes out the droplets of humour from each comedic opening as this seemingly nervy individual becomes both excited and confused by the world around him. No one should begrudge the industrious Mark Watson his spot in the limelight; just make sure when you go that you’re at the front of the longest queue in Edinburgh. (Brian Donaldson)

Set in Oxford in the 1950s, Shadowlands tells the true love story of CS Lewis (Dance) and Joy Gresham (Dee). Lewis, a leading Christian academic and author of many classic books including The Chronicles of Narnia, remained a bachelor until his fifties, when he met Joy. Enchanted by the American divorcee, he secretly married her and cared for her when she became terminally ill. His encounter with love and loss led him to reconsider many of the beliefs he had previously held so staunchly.
Nicholson adapted his play – which won the Evening Standard Award for Play of the Year and was nominated for three Oliviers - for a 1993 film which starred Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger and was directed by Richard Attenborough.

Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is to finally receive a West End transfer - two years after it first opened at the National Theatre.
The multi award-winning play is to run at the Wyndham’s Theatre from December 21 for a 17-week season. It marks the culmination of the production’s second UK tour.

Featuring Stephen Moore as Hector, Isla Blair as Mrs Lintott, William Chubb as the Headmaster and Orlando Wells as Irwin, the play opens as the film version of the original production, with the original cast, opens in UK cinemas.

The History Boys is produced in the West End by the NT and National Angels. It is directed by Nicholas Hytner and recreated by Simon Cox.