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Scunthorpe Telegraph Thursday, March 21 - Wednesday, March 27, 2013

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Scunthorpe Telegraph

Thursday, March 21 - Wednesday, March 27, 2013

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WHATS ON MEETS THE CHUCKLE BROTHERS

COMING UP ...

We speak to Jimmy Osmond next Thursday

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TOP 10 THINGS TO DO
BIRMINGHAMS Old Dance Schools new show is coming to Ropery Hall in Barton on Friday, March 22. Tickets for the show, at 8pm, cost 12 in advance or 14 on the door. Call 01652 660380 for more information. ARGENTINIAN tango vocalist Martn Alvarado will perform at Gainsboroughs Old Nick Theatre as part of his 24th international tour. His performance, on Wednesday, March 27, will see him sing with a pianist Mikko Helenius. Tickets for the show, at 7.30pm, are 10 on the door, 8 in advance from www.musicglue.com/ ltangopromotion or from the theatre box office on 01427 810616. A COSTUMED group of Tudor musicians and dance leaders, de Mowbrays Musicke, is playing a concert of dance music of the Tudor period at All Saints Church, Winterton on Saturday, March 23. The concert starts at 7.30pm and tickets, at 8, are available from 01724 732268. There is free admission for under-16s. Call 01427 873937.

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THE Crosby Country Market will reopen today (Thursday) from 12.30pm to 3.30pm at Centenary Methodist church on Frodingham Road, Scunthorpe. Local produce will be on sale. AN EASTER egg tombola is one of the attractions on Saturday, March 23, when St Hybalds Church is holding a coffee morning, 10am to 11.30am. The village hall is the venue, admission is 1.50 to include coffee and a hot cross bun. THE Duck Egg Theatre Company is looking for rock musicians, percussionists, actors and vocalists to perform in the pop/rock musical A Little Piece of Heaven. Auditions will take place on Monday, March 25 at The Ropewalk. Call 07723 371833. SWINGING at the Cotton Club will be performed on Friday, March 22 at the Plowright Theatre, Scunthorpe. Tickets cost 17.50 and the show starts at 7.30pm. Call 0844 854 2776. A PUGGIE Wuggie Disco will be held in aid of Jerry Green Dog Rescue at the Red Lion in Broughton. The event will be a karaoke and Easter auction at 7.30pm tomorrow (Friday, March 22). Tickets cost 5 including buffet, call 01652 657820.

Get ready for a good chuckle

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HEYVE been regularly on our television screens since the late 1980s, having shot to fame with their own BBC1 TV show Chucklevision, starred in numerous pantomime appearances and have even branched out into performing their own shows such as the 2011 touring production of Barry Potter and his Full Blood Brother Paul in The Ghostly Shadows. And the brothers are returning to the region on Tuesday, April 2, in a new adventure that sees a theatre manager in trouble because a ghostly presence is scaring all the people away. In fact, things have got so bad that he is having to sell everything off in order to pay the rent and he knows an empty stage is never any good for attracting shows. He calls Paul and Barry for help and asks Have you got any ideas?. Of course they have because they are The Chuckle Brothers, although things might not exactly go to plan? Ask your parents and you would realise Barry and his brother Paul set out as a duo to win the television talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1967 and then New Faces in 1974. Despite this they did not find real success until the advent of their own television show for the BBC in 1985, Chucklehounds short shows aimed at pre-school children that had no dialogue, in which they dressed in giant dog costumes. All this was long before the days of Chucklevision. And if those early days of his career had not taken off, Barry said he aspired to be a footballer. Id have liked to be a footballer, said Barry. I used to play amateur football for our local works team on a Saturday and I was also in a team playing on a Sunday. I go to watch Rotherham United play as much as I can when Im home. Scunthorpe United did have our (Rotherham Uniteds) old manager Alan Knill for some time. When hes not sticking to the slapstick persona of Barry Chuckle, Barry admits that the most embarrassing thing hes done to impress someone is styled his wifes hair. I wouldnt do it now, he said. What attracts me to a woman is their personality and of course their figure. Its no good having personality but nothing to go with it. I like an all-round personality and nice figure.

Jack the Giant Slayer

CINEMA

Listings shown for Vue Cinema, Scunthorpe, Friday, March 22 -Thursday, March 28

Childrens entertainers The Chuckle Brothers are back with a barrel of laughs in their new show Meet The Phantom which comes to the Grimsby Auditorium. Entertainment reporter SELINA MAYCOCK speaks to Barry one half of the duo to see what the man behind the slapstick character is really like
Having been involved in the television celebrity circles for decades with their favourite to me, to you catchphrase, The Chuckle Brothers have become good friends with a few celebrities. Barry said: Radio One DJ Scott Mills rings us up all the time asking us to come on his show. And David Jason comes to see our shows with his daughter. He even stood in the queue with her for our autographs Ive always been a fan of David Jason. But even celebrities have dreams of dining with their idols and for Barry, it would be a dinner date with a difference. He said: Id choose to have dinner with Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Jerry Lee Lewis, Margaret Thatcher (I always think she did brilliant as Prime Minister, a lot of people didnt like her but she put the country back on its feet so Id like to know what shes like) and Stan Laurel. But theres also some people Barry isnt a fan of and the person he would least like to be stuck in a lift with is Piers Morgan. Barry explained: Hes just intrusive especially with the

questions he asks. Describing himself as little, friendly and humorous, it is no surprise that fans have given Barry random gifts like Easter eggs to keep him going while hes on the road. Hotel stays are something that The Chuckle Brothers are used to and so is his brothers messy style. Im a neat and tidy person, he said. Paul is quite the opposite. I keep hotel rooms tidy and tend to pack things up as I go along. Pauls messy. One of Barrys proudest moments was performing on the Childrens Royal Variety performance in front of Princess Margaret 14 years ago. But even when performing at big events, Barry said they do not spend much time in the dressing room. Barry said: We get ready 10 minutes before we go on stage because I dont like

waiting. When Barry isnt working he would like nothing more than to be in Hawaii where he once holidayed. Its a lovely place, he said. But when Im away I miss the food the most. I like traditional English food like roast dinners and although you can get those abroad theyre not the same. And if it wasnt for his Chuckle Brother character, Barry said he would like to change his nose. He said: Id like a nose job because my nose is quite big but it would change the character so I cant have one really. People expect you to be a certain way its character building. Even if I go out in disguise people recognise me. We once did Chucklevision dressed as ZZ Top and people still shouted Chuckle Brothers. But its not all been good press for the brothers, for they had to combat the most unkind rumours such as facing the news of their own death. This has prompted the brothers to

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OFF the Hook will be perfor med by Haxey Amateur Dramatic Society at Haxey Memorial Hall on Thursday, March 21. The show will also run on Friday, March 22 and Saturday, March 23. Tickets cost 5 and the show starts at 7.30pm. Call 01427 754294.

ignore what is written about them. Barry said: Theres lots of rubbish written and you cannot read everything. I just read the good stuff. About three years ago one article said Paul and I were supposed to be dead. I put out a denial and I was on television news talking about it. Highs and lows come as part of the job and The Chuckle Brothers are privileged to use their status to their advantage. Barry said: Certain shows we get privilege to see or a concert, we just ring up for that. They say yes come along but weve never used it to get anything. WE HAVE two family tickets (two adults and two children) to giveaway to see The Chuckle Brothers meet The Phantom! at the Grimsby Auditorium on Tuesday, April 2 at 2pm. To enter this competition answer the following question: What is the surname of Paul and Barry? A Smith B Brown C Elliott Send your answer with your name, age, address and daytime contact number to: Chuckle Competition, FAO Selina Maycock, 4/5 Park Square, Laneham Street, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 6JH. The closing date is 5pm on Thursday, March 28. Usual Local World/ Scunthorpe Telegraph rules apply www.thisis scunthorpe.co.uk/ houserules Tickets are 15. Family tickets (for two adults and two children) are 56. To book call the box office on 0844 871 3016 or visit www.atg tickets.com/ grimsby

FARM boy Jack (Nicholas Hoult) heads into town to sell his horse and cart. He encounters a monk (Simon Lowe) bearing a pouch of stolen beans. Those beans have the power to change the world. Dont lose them and whatever you do, don't get them wet! the holy man instructs Jack. ACTION ADVENTURE: Jack the Giant Slayer That night, a sudden deluge of rain causes one of the seeds to take root and a beanstalk rises terrifyingly into the sky, taking with it Jacks home and Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson). When King Brahmwell (Ian McShane) learns of his daughters fate, he organises a search party including valiant knight Elmont (Ewan McGregor), his right-hand man Crawe (Eddie Marsan), Isabelles conniving fiance Roderick (Stanley Tucci), snivelling sidekick Wicke (Ewen Bremner) and Jack. Atop the beanstalk, they discover an army of gargantuan warriors led by two-headed General Fallon (Bill Nighy, John Kassir) and his lieutenants, Fee, Fye, Foe and Fumm. Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (12a), daily 4.45 (not Wed/Thurs), 7.30; Fri late 10.10 Jack the Giant Slayer (12a), daily 10.15 (Sat/Sun only), 12.50, 3.25, 6.10 (not Wed/Thurs)

ALSO SHOWING:
GI Joe: retaliation (12a), Wed/Thurs only 12.50, 3.20, 5.50 GI Joe: retaliation 3D (12a), Wed/Thurs only 5.40, 8.15 Trance (15) Wed/Thurs only 12.50, 3.10 Identity Thief (15), Fri-Sun 12.50, 3.30, 6.10, 8.45, Mon-Thurs 2.55, 5.30, 8.00 The Croods 3D (U), 11.30 (Sat/Sun only), daily 2.00, 7.45, Fri late 10.30 (all shows audio described) The Croods (U), 10.20 (Sat/Sun only), daily 1.00 (Sun subtitled), 3.30, 6.00 (Tues subtitled), Wed/Thurs 8.20 (all shows audio described) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (15), daily 8.20pm, Fri late 10.40 Welcome to the Punch (15), Fri-Tues 5.15, 7.40 Wreck It Ralph (PG), Sat/Sun 11.50, 2.30; Mama (15), Fri-Tues 6.10, 8.40 Oz: The Great and Powerful 3D (PG), daily 1.30, 4.30 Oz: The Great and Powerful (PG), Sat/Sun 11.00am, daily 2.10, 5.10, 8.15 Parker (15), daily 2.25, Fri late 10.00 KIDS AM Rise of the Guardians (PG), Sat/Sun 10.30 Monsters Inc 3D (PG), Sat/Sun 11.00 Senior Screen, Argo (15), Tues 1.00

The Chuckle Brothers meet The Phantom! Grimsby Auditorium, April 2

SCUNTHORPE Choral Society, with the Cantanta Orchestra, will perform Samson by GF Handel on Saturday, March 23 at The House on Brumby Wood Lane, Scunthorpe. The event, at 7.30pm, costs 12 for adults, 5 for students and children from Scunthorpe. Tickets from the Central Library on 01724 860161 or the Plowright Theatre on 01724 297862.

Radio One DJ Scott Mills rings us up all the time asking us to come on his show
CHUCKLE BROTHERS: Paul, left, and Barry