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Almost half of Irish women spend an average of 4.3 days a year blow-drying their hair.

BURLESQUE PERFORMERS from across the world will strut their stuff on Galway's stages when the second Galway Burlesque Festival returns to the city from Friday May 26 to Sunday 28.

GUMS, OTHERWISE known as the Galway University Musical Society present their 17th annual show, the Tony Award-winning Urinetown: The Musical, at the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday February 7 to Saturday 11.

THE YEAR is 1962. Teenager Tracy and her friend Penny are watching The Corny Collins Show. When the chance to dance on the show arrives, Tracy quickly takes the opportunity.

Davitt College’s annual musical production, Thank Abba for the Music, will be staged in The Joe Langan Sports Hall on the Davitt College campus next week. From Tuesday November 24 to Friday November 27 the sports hall will be transformed into a theatre and auditorium by a professional company of outfitters, providing sound, lighting, and a purpose-built stage and sets. 

A GRIPPING true drama of shipwreck, cannibalism, and survival comes to the Black Box Theatre next week in the shape of the musical drama, The Unlucky Cabin Boy. Devised by Gúna Nua Theatre Company with playwright Mike Finn and The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra, the show tells the story of teenager Patrick O’Brien of Limerick.

They are the biggest pop band in the world, but do not be surprised if One Direction take a break from their busy touring schedule and head to Ireland to enjoy Menopause The Musical. The boys, whose hits include ‘Best Song Ever’, are close friends of Mary Byrne, who stars in the theatrical extravaganza.

COMMUNITY IS the improv alter-ego of Galway band My Fellow Sponges, whose drive is to see the audience create music along with the band.

Galway Musical Society celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in swinging style next week with a staging of the sublime Cole Porter musical, Anything Goes, at the Town Hall.

The Dean Crowe Theatre will open its doors this weekend to the Broadway smash hit musical Hairspray. Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, Hairspray is a big, bouncy beehive of a musical, piled high with laughter, romance, and deliriously tuneful songs.