Arts Diary: Will Marriott

IT'S an obvious line, but unavoidable: there was an extra Girl Aloud in the auditorium at Hull Truck Theatre over Christmas.

Kimberley Walsh, a member of Britain's biggest girl group Girls Aloud, was a proud big sister when she joined the audience for a performance of Shakers.

Kimberley's little sister Amy is making her stage debut in the play, having graduated less than a year ago from drama school.

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Kimberley was at the theatre with the rest of her family at the performance and posed for photographs and signed autographs while at the theatre.

She said: "I loved the play – I have waitressed before so I could totally relate to a lot of the things they were talking about. Obviously I'm a bit biased but I thought Amy was really funny! Every time I have seen her she has been really good so I knew she was going to be brilliant."

John Godber, who wrote the part especially for Amy said: "My kids are well impressed that I know someone who knows someone in Girls Aloud."

SCARBOROUGH'S Rotunda Museum has a starring television role tonight, surprisingly, on BBC2's show Great Railway Journeys.

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The show follows Michael Portillo as he makes four long rail journeys across the length and breadth of Britain following Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. As part of Scarborough's heritage, the Rotunda feature in tonight's programme which covers the leg of the journey from Filey to Scarborough.

Shirley Collier, chief executive of Scarborough Museums Trust said: "We were delighted to take part in the series.

"The filming was great fun and we can't wait to see the results."

THE music of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole you might expect to hear on the same bill. Add to that line-up Guns 'n' Roses and Orff, however, and you have a collection of music that is best described as eclectic. It all helps in showing off the talents of the bad boy of ballroom Strictly Come Dancing's Brendan Cole.

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Cole is on tour with Brendan Cole UK Live and Unjudged. When she show comes to Scarborough later this month, he'll be ably demonstrating his skills with a dance show that takes in styles from the rumba, the cha cha and the elegance of the foxtrot. At Scarborough's Futurist Theatre

on January 19.

THE Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain launches its Silver Jubilee tour on Sunday with a sell out performance at Hull Truck Theatre.

The Orchestra is a group of all-singing, all-strumming ukulele players; which holds that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the ukulele.

A concert by the Ukes, as fans know them, is a funny, virtuosic, foot-stomping mix of rock 'n' roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the "bonsai guitar" and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies.

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Tickets for their performance at Hull Truck Theatre went on

sale last August and were snapped up within a month, with hundreds of disappointed fans leaving their names at the box office in the hope of returns.

Maybe there's still time before Sunday to get your hands on what sounds like a golden ticket.