Now That 39;s What I Call Music 83 Songs

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Thisfun-filled evening is bursting with some of the greatest hits from the 80s: Gold, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Tainted Love, Hey Mickey, Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves and many more!

It's Birmingham, 1989. Gemma and April, two school friends, are busy with very important business - planning their lives based on Number One Magazine quizzes and dreaming of snogging Rick Astley! Fast forward to Birmingham 2009, and they're confronted with their worst nightmare: the school reunion...!

*Please note that only one guest star will play each venue. Melissa Jacques is scheduled to play all venues from 6 September - 7 December 2024. Sam Bailey is scheduled to play all venues from 14 January - 12 April 2025. Please refer to tour list and venue websites for further details.

Television: Count Abdulla [ITVX], Sandman [Netflix], The Hitmen [Amazon Prime], The Outlaws [BBC One/Amazon Prime], Tweedy & Fluff [Channel 5], Danny & Mick [CBBC], Too Close [ITV], Death In Paradise [BBC One], MAXXX [Channel 4/HULU], Still Open All Hours [BBC One], Origin [YouTube Original Series], Newark Newark [Gold], Murder On The Blackpool Express [Gold/BBC Two] and Holby City [BBC One].

Theatre: Bleak Expectations [Criterion Theatre, West End], The Vagina Monologues [Tony Award Winning], Macbeth [with Mark Rylance] & Matchbox Theatre [Hampstead Theatre].

As one of the most famous songwriters ever to have emerged from The X Factor, Sam has established herself as one of the most recognisable UK singers in pop music today. Making use of her unbelievable singing voice and unquestionable ability to rock the stage, she continues to enjoy vast popularity performing for corporate events and music venues alike. Audiences across the United Kingdom have been eager to see the most exciting of X Factor winners perform on stage, making Sam the ideal choice for all kinds of events.

Throughout her career, Sinitta has achieved 14 Top Ten singles worldwide, including No. 1s in the USA, Japan, and all over Europe and the United Arab Emirates. She has garnered over 12 music awards across the globe, from Japan to Australia and the UK, notably being recognised as Best Club Act on the LGBTQIA+ scene and the Japanese Grammy.

Television: Doctors, and Star with Nicolas Hoult. Guest appearances on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Trigger Happy TV, The Mathew Wright Show, Loose Women, Lorraine, Celeb Mastermind & Celebrity MasterChef. Carol was also the Winner of All Star Mr and Mrs, Pointless!

Jay Osmond was the instigator on many of the projects that kept the Osmond family together and moving forward during all the years of success. Jay is the youngest of the original Osmond Brothers group, with a career in entertainment that started at the age of two and a half.

Jay was eight years old when he learned to play the drums, and went on to be voted one of the top 10 drummers in the country during the 1970s. Jay, along with the brothers, collaborated on many of the hit records.

Pippa was the dramaturg on 9 to 5: The Musical which played at The Savoy Theatre and toured the UK. She has written hundreds of original songs for herself and others to perform, including the big budget nativity musical extravaganza which closed the Netflix special Jack Whitehall: Christmas With My Father. She has several projects in development, specifically within musical theatre.

Craig Revel Horwood is a household name having appeared as a Judge on all 21 series of the hit BBC1 entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing. He also both directs and appears in the annual Strictly Come Dancing Live arena tour, created the touring show Strictly Confidential and was Head Judge on Dancing with the Stars Australia and New Zealand.

In 2012 Craig won the BBC2 series Maestro at the Opera, the final of which saw him conduct Act 2 of La Boheme at the Royal Opera House. He has also won Celebrity Masterchef and discovered his Australian roots in Who Do You Think You Are.

West End Musical Director Credits: Heathers, War of the Worlds, Dance Til Dawn, American Idiot, Carrie, Knights of the Rose, Stripped, Altar Boyz, Bat Boy, From a Jack to a King, and Return to the Forbidden Planet.

Annelie works prolifically with a variety of theatres on a freelance basis; with recent credits that include: Oliver!, directed by James Brining, for Leeds Playhouse, In Dreams, directed by Luke Sheppard for Leeds Playhouse, Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder, directed by Jon Brittain and Fabian Aloise for Edinburgh Fringe and tour, House of Shades for the Almeida, The Wonderful World of Dissocia for Theatre Royal Stratford East, Of Mice and Men for Birmingham Rep and Unexpected Twist for Fiery Angel.

She was Head of Casting for Nuffield theatres Southampton from 2017 till its closure, and previously worked at the Royal Shakespeare company for 5 years casting shows such as Hamlet, King Lear, Imperium, Myth, The Rover, Seven Acts Of Mercy, Two Noble Kinsman, Oppenheimer (co-casting) among many others.

Other acting credits include: As You Like It (The Globe), The Cher Show (UK & ROI Tour Original Cast, directed by Dame Arlene Phillips), Trigonometry for the BBC, Broken Toys (Cervantes Theatre), 3 Guys Naked From The Waist Down (Finborough Theatre), Thrill Me(The English Theatre of Hamburg and Jermyn Street Theatre), Children Of Eden(Union Theatre) and Romeo in Romeo And Juliet (Bridewell Theatre). Guy is also active as writer and was recently commissioned by Ice&Fire to write the music for The Sex Ed Musical, a musical for young people about sex education which toured schools and venues across the UK in Autumn 2023.

I was a first lieutenant at the time, a KC-10 aircraft commander and an Air Reserve Technician. I was on my way to work on what was an absolutely gorgeous morning. I had the sunroof open and rock music blaring (sadly songs only found on classic rock stations now), and I had not a care in the world. The sky that morning was this incredible blue color with not a cloud in sight. So blue that the local radio weather personality interrupted to comment, and she called it periwinkle. I remember thinking she got it right. I pulled into the squadron, took one last look at the sky and then ran inside to get to work.

It rang in the Mission Support Group, and within minutes, our building was surrounded with security forces facing out and providing a corridor to the aircraft. Billeting and orders were already being arranged for the 24/7 operations that would go on for months. They were ready.

I will never forget the difference a few seconds and a phone call can make in the entire trajectory of a country and in my life personally. I went from admiring an incredible blue sky, to later orbiting over the still smoldering remains of a set of landmarks I had known my whole life that was filled with people from neighborhoods all around me. That morning still guides my career and life over 20 years later.

Back in the old days of MS-DOS, programmers could implement a crude form of task-switching with a technique called Terminate and Stay Resident (also known as TSR). TSR programs installed hooks into keyboard interrupts or other OS mechanisms and then terminated, leaving the program in memory ready to kick into action when the user pressed a particular key combination or something else of interest happened.

Included with the downloadable code for this article is a Visual Studio solution named SimpleBackgroundAudio. For purposes of clarity, this program contains just about the minimum amount of code necessary to get background audio to work. I created the solution from the New Project dialog box by specifying Windows Phone Application, and then Windows Phone 7.1. (The 7.1 designation is used internally within the Windows Phone OS and Windows Phone applications, but it means the same thing as the more common 7.5 designation.)

The BackgroundAudioPlayer class is somewhat similar to the MediaElement or MediaPlayer classes that play audio files in the foreground. BackgroundAudioPlayer has no constructor; instead you obtain the only instance with the static Instance property. In this code, the Track property is set to the AudioTrack object just created.

Very important: Create a reference from the application to this DLL! To do this, I right-clicked the References section under the SimpleBackgroundAudio project, selected Add Reference, and then in the dialog box I selected the Projects tab and then the SimpleAudioPlaybackAgent project.

Look at the OnPlayStateChanged override first. This method is called when the PlayState property of the BackgroundAudioPlayer changes. The first argument is the same BackgroundAudioPlayer referenced in the program code; the last argument is a member of the PlayState enumeration.

When the program sets the Track property of the BackgroundAudioPlayer in the Click event handler, the BackgroundAudioPlayer accesses the music file over the Internet; the SimpleAudioPlaybackAgent DLL is loaded and the OnPlayStateChanged method eventually gets a call with the playState argument set to PlayState.TrackReady. It is the responsibility of OnPlayStateChanged to call the Play method of the BackgroundAudioPlayer object to start playing that track.

The AudioPlayer class handles these Pause and Play commands in the OnUserAction override shown in Figure 1. The UserAction argument indicates the particular button pressed by the user. OnUserAction responds by calling the appropriate method in the BackgroundAudioPlayer object.

When the track finishes playing, OnPlayStateChanged gets a call with PlayState.TrackEnded. The method responds by setting the Track property of the BackgroundAudioPlayer to null, which removes the item from the UVC. If you want, you can go back into the application and start the music playing again.

This simple fact has a profound implication: If you need this AudioPlayer class to maintain information between calls to OnPlayStateChanged and OnUserAction, you must keep that information in static fields or properties.

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