BOOKINGS:Now&Then

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SALLY ANNE TRIPLETT / RIA JONES / NEIL MORRISSEY

This isn’t the life that Peggy planned – recently divorced, she’s feeling a bit lost. But a meeting with her long-lost friend Lou brings back memories of the trials and triumphs of their teenage years.

What would you do if you could fix the mistakes of the past? Would you take the chance to be Fourteen – again?

This fun new musical features the much-loved songs of Victoria Wood.

Tuesday 2 February
7.30pm performance
at the
Menier Chocolate Factory

Tickets: £43
+ SAE for each show with one cheque to Fredo
Booking and Payment
by 16 November please.

You SAVE about £13 on seats usually £55.75
Normal price range
£55.75 > £40.75 but will increase.

Coach: Phone Cook’s Coaches 01702 344702 to book coach**

IMPORTANT – Bookings are accepted as firm bookings and cannot be cancelled. Theatres don’t make refunds so we could be out of pocket once our allocation has been paid for. Bookings must be paid in full within 1 week of the booking request or an additional £5 will be added to the ticket price.

Two great musical comedy and cabaret stars, Sally Ann Triplett and Ria Jones are joined by Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly, Waterloo Road, Line of Duty). The brilliant book is by Tom MacRae (writier of smash hit Everyone’s Talking About Jamie).

Come for a Laugh, and bring a handkerchief to dab away a tear.

“History – it’s just one f***ing thing after another!”

This is the first London revival of Alan Bennett’s award-winning play since its
phenomenal success 20 years ago.
It has been voted the nation’s absolute favourite play, ahead of Noises Off and Hamlet.

Eight schoolboys at an all-boys grammar school in Sheffield navigate sex, school politics and their teacher’s battle of wills. Subversive, poignant and deeply funny, The History Boys explores sexuality, adolescence, and the nature of history, reflecting the changing face of 1980’s England. Twenty years later, has it now changed again? You be the judge.

Once again the play will be directed by Nicholas Hytner. Casting will be announced in January – the original production included star-making performances from James Corden, Russell Tovey, Samuel Barnet, Dominic Cooper , Jamie Parker and Sacha Diwan. Who would you like to see cast now?

PLEASE NOTE: There is no group reduction for this play, as demand is expected to be heavy. The seats in the Stalls range from £95 (Back Stalls) to £195 (Front Stalls). These prices will rise once casting has been announced, and when the play opens.
In order to keep prices at an affordable level, I have booked seats in the centre of the Upper Circle for a preview performance close to the press night. I have sat in this area of the theatre many times, and it is a good place to see the play, with a clear view of the stage.

Thursday 15 April
7.30pm performance at the
Theatre Royal, Haymarket

Sorry – No group discount
Normal price range
£165 > £25

Upper Circle Tickets: £63
+ SAE for each show with one cheque to Fredo
Booking and Payment
by 16 November please.

Cooks Coaches: 01702 344702

IMPORTANT –Bookings are accepted as firm bookings and cannot be cancelled. Theatres don’t make refunds so we could be out of pocket once our allocation has been paid for. Bookings must be paid in full within 1 week of the booking request or an additional £5 will be added to the ticket price.

Real education goes beyond the curriculum!

GATSBY returns to Sadler’s Wells…..as a JAZZ BALLET

You’ve read the book, you’ve seen the film, you’ve even seen the musical. We hope you enjoyed them all because we are now offering you the ballet version, or perhaps I should be saying dance or jazz-ballet version. This is a new interpretation of one of the classic novels of the last century, evocative of its time with a story and characters to grip you. It’s also set in a world of luxury and indulgence, perfect for a new dance production with music that includes Gershwin’s Rapsody In Blue.

SUNDAY 21 MARCH
6.00pm performance at the
Sadler’s Wells Theatre

You SAVE £15 on front Stalls seats normally £85.
Normal price range
£120 > £50

Tickets: £70
+ SAE for each show with one cheque to Fredo
Booking and Payment
by 18 November please.

Cooks Coaches: 01702 344702

IMPORTANT –Bookings are accepted as firm bookings and cannot be cancelled. Theatres don’t make refunds so we could be out of pocket once our allocation has been paid for. Bookings must be paid in full within 1 week of the booking request or an additional £5 will be added to the ticket price.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a 6.00pm early evening performance

Amazing sets and dazling costumes showcase the glitz and glamour of
one of the most famous stories of all time.

Inspired by one of the strangest crime stories in American history.

Monday 11 January
7.30pm performance at the
Donmar Warehouse

Tickets: £76
+ SAE for each show with one cheque to Fredo
Booking and Payment by
3 November please.

The Donmar is a charity and cannot offer group Discounts

Coach: Phone Cook’s Coaches 01702 344702 to book coach**

It’s a simple plan.
Steal Elvis Presley’s corpse.
Stash him in the freezer.
Collect the million dollar ransom.

Charlie Cox (The Prince of Homberg, Donmar; Betrayal, Pinter Theatre; and numerous film and tv roles) is Vince

It was the opportunity of a lifetime offered to small-time crook Vince Black in Memphis back in 1977. Charlie Cox plays Vince, leader of his gang of misfits and drop-outs, but can they pull off the heist of the century? The King’s Ransom is a Southern-fried comedy about grief, greed, and bad decisions.

N.B. Donmar Friends and everyone booking Ilford Boy or The King’s Ransom NOW has priority booking for No Man’s Land with Simon Russell Beale and Rupert Everett (17 February 2027). No bookings can yet be accepted for No Man’s Land only.

**SPECIAL NOTE: Many of our friends have told us that they would like to continue joining us at the theatre. As we shall not be able to organise coach transport in future, Cook’s Coaches do intend to run an optional coach to our shows. This will be a separate transaction from booking a show so you must book your coach fare directly with their office, as soon as possible after booking your theatre tickets with us. You can then still travel safely with friends, and benefit from our special group theatre ticket discounts.
Return COACH fare: Currently £22
Please note that the coach must be booked and payment made to Cook’s Coaches.
Enquiries – Tel: 01702 344702.
Seats on the coach will be allocated on receipt of payment.

SHOW SCHEDULE FOR 2026/7
(Table of details below)

COACH TRANSPORT IS NOT INCLUDED IN BOOKINGS FOR SHOWS BELOW
(APPLY TO COOKS COACHES FOR TRANSPORT – see above)

SCHEDULE OF DATES

All shows are 7.30pm evening performances unless shown differently in table below.

Date	Theatre	Show Title	Price	You Save
Wed 11/11/26 7.00pm EVE	@sohoplace	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf	Ticket Only:£70or£90	–
Mon 16/11/26	Adelphi	The Lives of Others	Ticket Only:£62	£18
Wed 25/11/26	Marylebone	Speculations	Ticket Only:£52?	?
Wed 09/12/26 7.00pm EVE	Savoy	Paddington	Ticket Only:£62or£72	–
Tue 05/01/27	Sadler’s Wells	Cinderella	Ticket Only:£82	20%≈
Mon 11/01/27	Donmar	The King’s Ransom	Ticket Only:£76
Mon 18/01/27	Bridge	Pride	Ticket Only:£52?	?
Tue 02/02/27	Menier	Fourteen Again	Ticket Only:£54	£13
Tue 09/02/27 6.30pm EVE	Noel Coward	August: Osage County	Ticket Only:£57	£28
Wed 17/02/27	Donmar	No Man’s Land	Ticket Only:£76#
Wed 03/03/27 7.45pm EVE	NT:Olivier	Suddenly Last Summer	Ticket Only:£57	£8
Sun 23/03/27 6.00pm EVE	Sadler’s Wells	The Great Gatsby	Ticket Only: £70	£15
Thu 15/04/27	Haymarket	The History Boys	Ticket Only: £63	–
Tue 27/04/27 7.00pm EVE	Adelphi	Billy Elliot	Ticket Only:£69	£26
Tue 04/05/27	Noel Coward	Amadeus	Ticket Only: £67	£13
Mon 24/05/27	Gillian Lynne	The Traitors	Ticket Only: £58	£12

#Special booking arrangement. Currently only available to those booking another Donmar play.

If you are using Cook’s Coaches on the dates shown in above Schedule of Dates, please check coach departures times with them. They are notified of all our Theatre dates and plan to provide transport accordingly.
Their phone number is 01702 344702.

PreviousShows2026

Shows seen in 2026 with the Group and On Our Own, with star ratings

On Our Own	With Grp	Date	Theatre	Show	Our ★ Rating	Perf code*	Price paid ≈
1		01/01/26	NT:Dorfman	End	★★★		£40
2	1	07/01/26	QEH	Top Hat	★★★		£57
3	2	12/01/26	Hampstead	Indian Ink	★★★★		£55
4		14/01/26	Donmar	When We Are Married	★★★★	SE	–
5		19/01/26	Jermyn Street	Orphans	★★★		£22
6	3	22/01/26	Bridge	Into the Woods	★★★★		£53
7	4	25/01/26	The Other Palace	KENREX	★★★★★		£47
8	5	28/01/26	Duke of York’s	Woman in Mind	★★½		£52
9		03/02/26	Gielgud	Oliver!	★★★★★	C	–
10		04/02/26	Harold Pinter	High Noon	★★★		£40
11		07/02/26	Royal Court	Guess How Much I Love You	★★★★★		£39.50
	6	09/02/26	Aldwych	Shadowlands			£47
12		09/02/26	Haymarket	The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry	★★★		£45
13		11/02/26	Almeida	American Psycho	★★★★		£29
14		12/02/26	Hampstead: downstairs	A Ghost in your Ear	★★★½		£21
	7	18/02/26	Old Vic	Arcadia			£35
15		18/02/26	NT:Dorfman	Man and Boy	★★★★		£47
16		25/02/26	Old Vic	Arcadia	★★★½		£33
17		28/02/26	Orange Tree	Dance of Death	★★★		£29
18	8	02/03/26	Donmar	Evening All Afternoon	★★★★		£70
19		07/03/26	Rose	Our Town	★★★★★		£47.50
20		10/03/26	Donmar	Evening All Afternoon	★★★★	SE	–
21		12/03/26	Hampstead	Bird Grove	★★★½		£46
22		14/03/26	Kiln	Manic Street Creature	★★★★		£20
23	9	16/03/26	Young Vic	Broken Glass	★★★★½		£40
24		18/03/26	Menier	The Holy Rosenbergs	★★½		£45
25		19/03/26	Duke of York’s	Teeth’n’Smiles	★★½		£45
26		31/03/26	Royal Court	John Proctor is the Villain	★★★★		£39.50
27		01/04/26	NT:Olivier	Summerfolk	★★★½		£25
28	10	02/04/26	Covent Garden	Mayerling	★★★★		£65
29		04/04/26	Orange Tree	Vincent in Brixton	★★★½		£29
30		09/04/26	Park	Two	★★★		£22
31		11/04/26	Almeida	A Doll’s House	★★		£47
32		13/04/26	Duchess	Hooray for Hollywood- Stilgoe and Pulman	★★★½		£35
33	11	22/04/26	Marylebone	The Price	★★★★½	P	£38
34		24/04/26	Jermyn Street	The Waves	★★★½		£32
35	12	27/04/26	Donmar	Mass	★★★★	P	£70
36		29/04/26	Old Vic	One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest	★★★		£33
	13	04/05/26	NT:Lyttelton	Les Liaisons Dangereuses			£60
37		05/05/26	Covent Garden	Peter Grimes	★★★★½		£50
38		07/05/26	Donmar	Mass	★★★★	SE	–
39		13/05/26	NT:Lyttelton	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	★★★★		£25
40		18/05/26	Harold Pinter	Romeo & Juliet	★★★★		£65
41	14	19/05/26	Menier	Equus	★★★★½		£45
42	15	26/05/26	Haymarket	Grace Pervades	★★★		£80
43		27/05/26	Kiln	Please Please Me	★★★½		£20
44		30/06/26	Young Vic	Care	★★★★½		£20
45		01/06/26	The Crazy Coqs	Amanda McBroom	★★★★	G	–
46		04/06/26	Hampstead	Stage Kiss	★★		£46
47	16	08/01/26	Barbican	High Society	★★★		£80
48		10/06/26	Prince Edward	Beetlejuice	★★	C	–
49		11/06/26	Orange Tree	Black Comedy	★★★½		£29
50	16	16/06/26	Noel Coward	Cyrano de Bergerac	★★★★½		£42
51	17	18/06/26	Covent Garden	So Are We: León & Lightfoot	★★★★★		£56
52	18	22/06/26	Hampstead	Springwood	★★★		£55
53		23/06/26	Noel Coward	Sinatra	★★	C	–
54	19	30/06/26	Donmar	The Guilty	★★★★		£72
55		01/07/26	Old Vic	Glengary Glen Ross	★★★★		£34.50
56		04/07/26	Royal Court	Archduke	★★★★★		£20
57	20	08/07/26	Aldwych	Sinatra	★★½		£43
58		09/07/26	Donmar	The Guilty	★★★★	SE	–
59		10/07/26	NT:Olivier	War Horse	★★★★★		£20
60		11/07/26	Jermyn Street	Wife to James Whelan	★★★		£23
61	21	14/07/26	Palladium	Jesus Christ Superstar	★★★★		£67
62		16/07/26	Bridge	The Oresteia	★★★★		£45
63	22	20/07/26	Palladium	Jesus Christ Superstar	★★★★		£67
64		22/07/26	NT:Dorfman	Pride	★★★½		£47
65	23	28/07/26	Apollo	The Truth	★★★★★		£52
66	24	04/08/26	Sadler’s Wells	Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man	★★★★		£47
67		11/04/26	Adelphi	The Comedy About Spies	★★★	C	–
68	25	13/08/26	@sohoplace	Tao of Glass	★★★★★		£47.50
69	26	26/08/26	Donmar	A Month in the Country	★★★	P	£76
70	27	02/09/26	Old Vic	How the Other Half Loves	★★★★★		£37
	28	07/09/26	Donmar	A Month in the Country	★★★		£72
71		09/09/26	NT:Olivier	The Story	★★½		£45
72		14/09/26	Southwark	Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky	★★★★		£16
73		17/09/26	Donmar	A Month in the Country	★★★½	SE	–
74		24/09/26	Park	Holy Fool	★★		£35
75		28/09/26	Drury Lane	The Last Ship	★★★½		£55
76		30/09/26	Almeida	Golden Boy	★★★★		£75
77		07/10/26	Young Vic	Thelma and Louise	★★½		£28
78		08/10/26	Hampstead	Kimberly Akimbo	★½		£32.50
79		11/10/26	Menier	Tru	★★★★★		£42.50
80		13/10/26	Coliseum	Angel’s Bone	★★★½		£30
81		15/10/26	Haymarket	The Standard of Living	★★★★		£75
82		16/10/26	Old Vic	Martin Guerre	★★★		£32.50
83		22/10/26	Donmar	Ilford Boy	★★★★½		£76
84		24/10/26	NT:Dorfman	Some Woman	★★½		£47.00

*SE:Supporters’ Evening / P:Preview / G:Guest / C:Complimentary Tickets

Click to page 2 below for a list of all shows seen in 2025, and to Pages 3/4/5/6 for all the shows seen earlier.

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