{"id":364694,"date":"2025-08-22T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364694\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:06:11","slug":"wedding-present-musical-opens-in-holbeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364694\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Present musical opens in Holbeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Reception-Wedding-Present.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Featuring songs from legendary indie band The Wedding Present, \u2018Reception\u2019opens tonight (22 August 2025) at Slung Low\u2019s The Warehouse in Holbeck.<\/p>\n<p>Reception is a brand new musical written by Matt Aston that will take you back to the sticky dance floors and crimped hair of 1980s Leeds. Inspired by the the band\u2019s 40 year career, the show includes indie classics My Favourite Dress, Kennedy, Brassneck, the band\u2019s debut single Go Out and Get\u2018 Em Boy and more, presented in stunning new arrangements.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A story of love gone wrong, love gone right and then love gone wrong again \u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the summer of 1985 and a group of Leeds friends are celebrating the end of their university days. But life doesn\u2019t always work out as planned, as events unfold over a graduation ceremony, a funeral, a wedding and, of course, the reception \u2026<\/p>\n<p>You should always keep in touch with your friends \u2026 or should you?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reception runs until Saturday 6 September. Tickets are priced from \u00a316.90-\u00a348.50 and \u00a359.50-\u00a369.50 for \u2018Wedding guests\u2019 including cabaret seating, fizz, programme and goodies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk\/event\/reception-the-wedding-present-musical\/instances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Book here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday (25 August) there will be a special Pay As You Feel community performance, opening the doors so everyone can be part of the celebration \u2013 simply chose the ticket price that works for you. PAYF applies to all available tickets including Wedding Guest tickets.<\/p>\n<p>The company is raising additional funds to support the development of a local community cast. You can find out more about their crowd funder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdfunder.co.uk\/p\/support-community-cast-of-new-musical-reception\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Warehouse in Holbeck is located on Crosby Street, LS119RQ.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While you\u2019re here, can we ask a favour?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">South Leeds Life is published by a not-for-profit social enterprise. We keep our costs as low as possible but we\u2019ve been hit by increases in the print costs for our monthly newspaper which have doubled in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Could you help support local community news by making a one off donation, or even better taking out a supporters subscription?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Donate here, or sign up for a subscription at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Featuring songs from legendary indie band The Wedding Present, \u2018Reception\u2019opens tonight (22 August 2025) at Slung Low\u2019s The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,122408,127815,13480,127816,2764,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-364694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-musical-theatre","13":"tag-reception","14":"tag-slung-low","15":"tag-the-wedding-present","16":"tag-theatre","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115072570808356500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}