Race for tickets for the best in family theatre at Blackpool Grand Theatre this February! This marvellous madcap new telling of Jules Verne’s famous tale Around the World In 80 Days will captivate everyone from young to old from Tuesday 28 February to Saturday 4 March 2023. It’s a real circus of a show! Book your seats in the Big Top now!

Juliet Forster’s thrilling adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World In 80 Days is Phileas Fogg’s incredible journey across the globe as you’ve never seen it before! It’s a rip-roaring romp that’s not to be missed…

A raggle-taggle band of highly skilled travelling circus performers embark on their most daring feat yet as they recreate Fogg’s famous adventures as he sets off on his race Around The World In 80 Days. But wait? Who is this Nellie Bly biting at his heels? We can’t have an actual real-life woman win this race!

Sit back and enjoy as skilled performers traverse every country, embrace each character and navigate each mode of transport as fact clashes with fiction in this highly entertaining gallop around the globe. It’s an epic family theatre adventure!

Can’t wait to get started on the family fun?

Why not fill these long, dark January nights by playing Around the World In 80 Days the board game to get you all up to speed on the famous tale?

Most families will have bought new board games for Christmas and then packed them away with the decorations ready for next year’s festivities. Sitting around the table with the family to play a board game is one of the few times you can all get together, unleash some healthy competitive spirit and teach your little ones how to lose gracefully…

Let’s look at seven of the UK’s best-loved board games. Which one did you get in your stocking this year? Get them back out and enjoy!

Monopoly

One of the most popular board games of all time, Monopoly is perfect for competitive families while also delivering a crash course in capitalism and economics. The rules are simple – build your monopoly by buying up as much land as possible and then build houses and hotels on it to earn as much profit as possible when other plays to land on your property. Unfortunately, as in real life, there are taxes and rent to pay, and you can even find yourself in jail if you’re not careful!

Mouse Trap

Since its launch in 1963, the Mouse Trap board game has long been a family favourite thanks to its zany action and fast-paced three-dimensional gameplay. As one of the colourful mouse characters, you must navigate around the board collecting cheese and taking cheese from other players. But as you make your way around, you must be careful of the trap! Designed for two or more players, this game is all about construction, decision-making and cause and effect.

Scrabble

Scrabble is one of the most popular board games among older children, teens and adults. Test your word skills and fire up your competitive instinct as you each try to come up with the highest-scoring words. Players need seven tiles each to get started, and when it’s their turn, place the letters down or across the board to create words to score points. The game ends when all the tiles are gone.

Around the World In 80 Days

In 1872, the fictional character in Jules Verne’s novel Phileas Fogg bet £20,000 that he could travel around the world in just 80 days. As he heads off on his travels, he’s pursued by a detective believing him of having robbed the Bank of England. The Around the World In 80 Days board game retraces Fogg’s adventures, with the first person to return to London winning the game. You must alternate between ambition and caution and time your return to the city just right if you want to succeed.

Articulate!

Articulate is a different kind of word game that requires you to think on your feet and talk fast. Each player has just 30 seconds to describe the words on their card to their teammates. The more words their team can correctly guess, the more points they get, and the faster they travel around the board. It’s loud, interactive, intense and a lot of fun.

Trivial Pursuit

Since it was first launched in the 1980s, Trivial Pursuit has been a stalwart of board gaming. Its format is simple, travel around the board, answering general knowledge questions as you go. Whenever you answer a question correctly, you can collect a wedge. When you amass six wedges, you can make your way to the centre of the board to answer a question your opponents will choose. The game features over 2,000 trivia questions on sports and leisure, science and nature, art and literature, history, geography and entertainment.

Titanic

Playing as either Rose, Jack, Ruth, Cal or the Captain, you discover the famous Titanic ocean liner is sinking fast, and you need to get as many passengers as possible to safety before it sinks to the bottom of the sea. You’ll have to make life-and-death decisions, choosing whether to save passengers or upgrade your abilities to save more people on your next go. It all takes place over nine rounds as you pass from room to room, saving passengers and retrieving items. One of the tiles is flooded at the end of each player’s go, so it really is a race against time!

What are you waiting for? Set that board back up again, gather the whole family and start playing.

Then run to the Grand Theatre Box Office to follow in Fogg’s famous footsteps and snap up your seats for the circus in this fabulous family theatre show! Your Around the World In 80 Days adventure awaits!

Around The World in 80 Days is at Blackpool Grand Theatre from Tuesday 28 February to Saturday 4 March 2023. Matinee and early evening performances available.

Tickets from £15.50 with concessions and group rates available.

For ages 7+

Book the very best seats now before it flies into Blackpool Grand! Please call the Box Office on 01253 290190 or visit www.BlackpoolGrand.co.uk for full listings, bookings and further information.