These are our picks of the best comedy, musical and entertainment acts coming to Lancashire’s threatres over the next two months.
From stunning stage shows to spectacles of space, ghosts and magic – and even a famous celebrity ‘baring all’ on stage – these are 20 ‘feel good’ events guaranteed to brighten up your New Year.
5. Jim Davidson Swimming Against the Tide!
Friday, January 19. 3 Church Street, Blackpool. Tickets £29.50. Join one of Britain's best loved comedians on his "marathon swim as he resists the pull of the under-current of radical sensibilities of the woke minority." Slap on the Goose fat and battle through the dark and murky woke infested waters and join him for an evening of rip-roaring grown-up comedy. Photo: Lancashire Post
6. Sarah Millican
January 19 & 20. King George's Hall, Blackburn. Tickets £34.50. When Sarah Millican was a bairn, she wouldn’t say boo to a goose. Quiet at school, not many friends, no boobs till she was 16. Now? NOW she is loud, with good friends, a cracking rack and goose booing all over the shop. In Late Bloomer, Sarah’s brand-new stand-up show, she explores how one became the other. Plus, lots of stuff about dinners and lady gardens. Come along, laugh at her, with her, beside her. Photo: Lancashire Post
7. Calendar Girls The Musical
January 23 - 27. Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Tickets from £23.50. THE GIRLS ARE BACK. Following the death of a much-loved husband, a group of ordinary women in a small Yorkshire Women's Institute are prompted to do an extraordinary thing and set about creating a nude calendar to raise money for charity. The story of the Calendar Girls launched a global phenomenon: a million copycat calendars, a record-breaking movie, stage play and now a musical written by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth. Photo: Lancashire Post
8. Rock The Gardens Festival
January 26 & 27. Winter Gardens, Blackpool. ONLINE PRICES - 2 day ticket £34.50 / Friday £18.00 / Saturday £23.50. Banish away the January blues with two days of the finest rock and metal tribute bands that Europe has to offer. The mammoth indoor festival will be kicking off the year in a true show of rock. Photo: Lancashire Post