JENNI CARROLL

NOEL Coward's best-loved comedy Blithe Spirit is the final play in the 2004 Blackpool summer repertory season.

Charles Condomine invites a medium to his house in a bid to get enough material for his latest book and to expose her as a charlatan. But during the evening Charles is haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, Elvira, who wants Charles all to herself.

Blithe Spirit runs until Saturday, June 12, at The Grand Theatre, Blackpool. Tickets are available from the box office on 01253 290190.

BEFORE it heads off on a national tour, Bolton Octagon will be premiering Richard Cameron's The Glee Club, a song-filled West End smash hit about the last hurrah of a miner's singing troupe in 1962.

Set in south Yorkshire the story centres around five hard working and hard drinking miners and a church organist and the effect the swinging sixties has on their lives.

Featuring a host of popular songs including The Gay Ranchero, Feniculi Fenicular, You Always Hurt The One You Love and Que Sera, Sera, The Glee Club runs until Saturday, July 3.

CHARLOTTE will be spinning her web at Chester Gateway in a much loved children's classic.

Charlotte's Web tells the tale of Charlotte the spider who uses her extraordinary writing talent to save her friend Wilbur, the young pig, who is facing a terrible fate as bacon and ham. It runs at Chester Gateway until Saturday, June 12. Tickets are available from the box office on 01244 340392.

A CHANCE meeting irrevocably changes the lives of four strangers in London in the 1990s.

A compelling study of love, sex and betrayal, Closer is a shocking, brutally honest journey into the depths of the human heart.

It runs at The Lowry until Saturday, June 12. Tickets are available from the box office on 0870 111 2000.

THE decade defining soundtrack to the disco extravaganza Saturday Night Fever is back at The Palace Theatre, Manchester, for one week.

Every Saturday night Tony slips into his flares, pulls on his huge collared shirt and hits the streets to prove he can walk the walk, talk the talk and most definitely dance the moves.

It runs until Saturday, June 12, and tickets are available from the box office on 0870 401 6000.

THERE is no such thing as a banana tree, bananas grow on plants - that's just one of the many banana facts you will want to know before going to see the children's classic Bananas in Pyjamas.

With a strong emphasis on singing and dressing up, the show will feature well-known nursery rhymes and the mischievous twins, B1 and B2 will delight as they the decide the very best way to have fun is to play tricks on their teddy bear friends.

For one day only at Victoria Hall, Stoke, you can get tickets for Bananas in Pyjamas on 0870 060 6649.