STAGE TUBE: Laura Jane Matthewson Sings 'Pretty Funny' from Southwark Playhouse's DOGFIGHT

By: Jul. 18, 2014
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Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a first listen to Laura Jane Matthewson, as Rose, singing Pretty Funny from the musical Dogfight, which gets its European premiere at Southwark Playhouse from August 8. Check it out below!

Based on the 1991 movie of the same name starring River Phoenix, Dogfight premièred Off-Broadway in 2012, when it won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and was nominated for 5 Outer Critics Circle and 2 Drama Desk Awards

November 21, 1963. The night before their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines set out for one final boys' night of debauchery. But when Corporal Eddie Birdlace meets Rose, the unassuming and idealistic waitress he enlists to win a cruel bet, she rewrites the rules of the game and opens his eyes to what really matters in life.

Heading the London cast in the central roles of Eddie and Rose are Jamie Muscato and Laura Jane Matthewson.

Dogfight, produced by Danielle Tarento, the award-winning producer of Titanic, Paradeand Mack & Mabel, and directed by Matt Ryan, is in The Large at Southwark Playhouse for a six-week season from Friday 8 August to Saturday 13 September.



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