Symphonix Soundtracks comes to The Kings Theatre on Sunday 17 th March and anyone going along may well recognise some of their fellow attendees! The Joker Squad is a charitable organisation founded in 2013 that raises funds for the Alexander Devine Children's Hospice. Their members will be donning costumes and collecting money on the night for this worthy cause. There will be plenty of opportunities for movie fans to have photos with Princess Leia, Darth Vadar and his Stormtroopers and other iconic movie characters.
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00:00 Hi, I'm Simon Ledger, director and producer of Symphonics Orchestra.
00:04 So tell me what it's all about.
00:05 So Symphonics Orchestra we put together last year and our first show was Symphonic Soundtracks,
00:10 which is what we brought here to this amazing theatre, King's Theatre. I've always wanted to
00:14 put a show on here. I couldn't think of a better show than Soundtracks for this one,
00:18 which features some incredible movie scores, not just John Williams, Star Wars, E.T., Dirty Dancing,
00:25 Titanic, Doctor Who's 60th anniversary, War of the Worlds. And we have a 35-piece orchestra,
00:33 plus guest vocalists, plus original clips from the movies that are shown on the screen,
00:37 plus original graphics from ourselves. And we also have some amazing characters that are going
00:42 to be turning up on the night. Joker Squad, who raise money for children's hospice, they're going
00:46 to be sending characters, so you'll be able to get photos taken with them. It's a beautiful
00:51 theatre to do the show in and I couldn't have thought of a better theatre on the South Coast
00:55 to do it. Hi, I'm Emily. Hi, I'm Kennedy. Oh sorry, no, it's okay, we're part of the amazing
01:00 Joker Squad. Brilliant, and so tell me about your involvement in the show in March. So yeah,
01:06 so hopefully we're going to be here, it's going to be awesome. So we're just going to be here for
01:10 people to take pictures with us, interact with us, the public that have come to see the show,
01:14 so hopefully they enjoy that. How does it feel to be asked to be part of the show?
01:19 Oh amazing, yeah we do love being asked to be a part of things, especially when it's like an
01:24 orchestra as well, it's something different and unusual. So tell me a little bit about
01:29 the Joker Squad and what you guys do and what you've got coming, upcoming, any upcoming events?
01:36 Of course, so yes, so we have a main charity which is Alexander Divine's Children's Hospice
01:42 in Maidenhead, so any event that we go to we raise money for that charity, that's our chosen charity.
01:47 We do events all over the country, just where we get invited, and we have a main one coming up in
01:54 Portsmouth, Comic-Con, which is going to be awesome, we've got our own Star Wars zone,
01:58 people were very happy last year, so hopefully this year will be a bit better.
02:01 So tell me why the King's Theatre? I've been to the King's Theatre for quite a few different shows
02:07 and I've always dreamt of putting a show on here and I thought Symphonic Soundtracks would be the
02:11 perfect first show for us. So when can people come and see it? Come and see Symphonic Soundtracks here
02:16 at the King's Theatre Portsmouth on Sunday 17th March, you can get tickets at www.symphonics.co.uk
02:23 or on the King's Theatre website, get your tickets now and don't miss this fantastic show.