Upper Elmers End Area Guide

We are excited to present to you 'The PopGems Variety Show' 2025!

The Bexleyheath Stage School of Dancing proudly presents 'Alice'. The pupils will captivate you into Alice's weird and wonderful imagination in wonderland through song and dance.

A selection of Favourite Opera Choruses featuring Verdi, Donizetti, Bizet, Wagner, Purcell, Leoncavallo and others with soprano and tenor soloists. Join us for a summer treat as we journey throughout the opera and operetta world, visiting Seville and Scotland, Carthage and Calabria, and Portsmouth and Penzance, to name but a few! We are delighted to be once again able to showcase the talents of Richard Pearce at the piano. Richard is a conductor, pianist and organist, recording and broadcasting on Radio 3 with the BBC Singers and is a regular with the Philharmonia and the BBC Symphony Orchestras. You may well have seen him at the Royal Albert Hall for the Last Night of the Proms!

Early showing!

Born in 1981, it took only 17 years for comedian, writer, actor, television and radio presenter Jason Manford to make his mark on the live circuit. Working as a glass collector at the Buzz Comedy Club in Manchester's suburban area of Chorlton, Manford stepped in when a scheduled performer failed to turn up. Just six live gigs later he claimed The City Life North West Comedian Of The Year award, launching a career that would cement him as a household name across the United Kingdom. Jason’s been busy since his last smash-hit stand up show but fans of his Absolute Radio show will know this nationally acclaimed comedian hasn’t changed a bit. A Manford All Seasons is Jason’s latest comic offering set to hit the road, and it sure to be ‘expert observational comedy’ (The Guardian) mixed with ‘comic gold’ (Mail on Sunday).

Inspired by the performances of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford, the UK stars are hitting the road (with Pasquale at the wheel of the tour bus). Packed with laughs and songs, backed by a 15-piece band, the show will let the audience in on the banter between some of television's best-loved stars - who are also very close friends. Bradley Walsh says: "People are starved of our type of entertainment - songs, stories, jokes - and banter! It's an homage to the Rat Pack but brought up to the modern day, and its a fantastic night. We are just thrilled. We all share the same dressing room - we're mates. We've known each other for so long now - and the show is about warmth and family - because we are. It's great, really great." Walsh was joined by his three mates and the Barry Robinson Big Band for a one-off show at the Palladium in London in March, and the idea was born for a full-on Prat Pack tour. Fans can expect an evening packed with jokes that can only come from the chemistry of such seasoned entertainers. Walsh, Conley and Richie were all Pontins Bluecoats earlier in their careers and Pasquale was a Warner's Greencoat, giving them all a grounding in variety before decades-long careers at the very top of entertainment.