Find out if Shilpa Shetty's new musical 'Miss Bollywood' is coming to a venue near you!
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She was already a film star in her native India, but Shilpa Shetty became a worldwide sensation after the controversial race row in this January's Celebrity Big Brother. She went on to win the show and even met the Queen! Now Shilpa has a new project - a World tour of a new musical called Miss Bollywood which is coming to the UK at the end of the year.
Miss Bollywood is a fun-filled story set in London a few years from now but told using the story-telling conventions of Bollywood film including full blown fantasy sequences and a heightened acting style.
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Shilpa leads a performing company of 34 fabulous dancers from Bollywood Film and beyond. The company also features 8 actors from the worlds of Hindi Film, Hindi Theatre and English Theatre.
Miss Bollywood is designed to appeal not only to fans of Bollywood films and their super catchy hit songs but also to the mainstream audiences for high energy Dance or Music Theatre.
It's also a gentle look at the cultural divide between characters with Asian heritage but who consider themselves totally British and those who are from India in search of fame and fortune in Europe's multi-cultural capital city.
TOUR DATES:
3rd Nov - 6th Nov: Manchester Opera House
9th Nov & 10th Nov: Cardiff, St David's Hall
13th Nov & 14th Nov: Bradford, St George's Hall
16th Nov & 17th Nov: Aberdeen, His Majesty's Theatre
18th Nov & 19th Nov: Glasgow, SECC
21st Nov - 25th Nov: Birmingham, Alexandra Theatre
27th Nov - 29th Nov: Cambridge, Corn Exchange
12th Dec & 13th Dec: London, Royal Albert Hall
Shilpa is an AIDS activist, who in early February launched the Shilpa Shetty Foundation, a charity from which half the proceeds will go towards helping adults and children in Mumbai who are HIV-positive or living with AIDS and the other 50 per cent towards other good causes.
She presented her old friend Richard Gere with an award at the ONE X ONE charity event in Canada at the weekend. The awards are presented in recognition of individuals who have dedicated their lives to fighting child poverty and suffering around the world.