A song, a dance, and a sideorder of chips!FANCY a bit of cabaret with your canapes? Followed by some songs with your soup? Or may be musical theatre with your meringue? At the Copthorne Hotel, at Culverhouse Cross Culverhouse Cross (Welsh: Croes Cwrlwys) is suburban district of the city of Cardiff, Wales. It is linked to the M4 motorway via the A4232 and is a busy shopping precinct with a range of stores. It lies on the border between Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. , Cardiff, there is a more on the menu than just food. The hotel has come up with a novel dining theatre experience that has proved so successful the hotel has formed its own theatre company. So how does it work? There are four different shows - Magic of Motown, Rock Your Soul To Broadway, Lights Camera Action and Romance at the Crazy Horse. The diners Diners can mean:
adj. Illuminated by candles: a candlelit ceremony. dining room and are served their starter and main course. Then the drama really begins as two actors and two actresses bring the entertainment of a West End style musical theatre alive for diners. During the interval you are served your dessert and you can sit back and watch the second half with your coffee. The current show is Lights, Camera, Action and includes songs such as Come What May from Moulin Rouge Moulin Rouge (French for Red Mill or windmill) is a traditional cabaret, built in 1889 by Joseph Oller, who already owned the Paris Olympia. , I Will Always Love You from Titantic and I've Had the Time of My Life from Dirty Dancing. Gemma Lewsey, 25, has been performing at the Copthorne since January and lives with the others in a Fame Academy style house in the city. She has a degree in music and drama from Liverpool University and then went to work in London for a couple of years. But steady work away from the cut-throat world of showbiz in London was too much of a lure and she ended up in Cardiff. "I love it here. It is just so nice and relaxed and intimate," enthuses Gemma. "People love it and lots of the tables get chatting to each other and most people are up dancing at the end of the night. "I do Dirty Dancing at the end of this show and we really encourage people to get up and dance and sing-a-long with us. "This is one of the few countries in the UK that offer this type of show but I think there should be more places that offer it." Lights, Camera, Action is on tonight and tomorrow and from June 11 to June 15. The Magic Of Motown is being performed from May 28 to June 1; June 25 to June 29. Rock Your Soul To Broadway is on June 4 to June 8. And Romance at the Crazy Horse Saloon is performed from May 21 to May 25 and from June 18 to June 22. Tickets cost pounds 27.50. To book, call 029 2059 9100. CAPTION(S): LIGHTS, CAMERA... DINNER! Diners Daniel Tyte and Lucy Atkinson enjoy a performance by SamBunce, Gemma Lewsey, Alister Wilmott and Sarah Smith
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