David Firth
Latest News on David Firth:
Flying Lotus Shares New Video & Song 'Post Requisite'; Continues US Tour (Nov 2, 2017)
David Firth's Locust Toybox Releases New Album 'Drownscapes' Today (Oct 30, 2017)
Tim Heidecker, Donnell Rawlings and Lexi Steele join Flying Lotus' KUSO (Nov 2, 2016)
Flying Lotus Shares New Video & Song 'Post Requisite'; Continues US Tour (Nov 2, 2017)
David Firth's Locust Toybox Releases New Album 'Drownscapes' Today (Oct 30, 2017)
Tim Heidecker, Donnell Rawlings and Lexi Steele join Flying Lotus' KUSO (Nov 2, 2016)
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David Firth read English at Sussex University and studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He started his professional career with the RSC and spent three seasons with them playing in Stratford, London, the USA and Europe. In 1970 in his first musical 1776 at the Albery Theatre he was nominated Most Promising Actor in the Plays and Players Awards of that year for his performance as the Courier. This was followed by spells of rep in Leicester and Coventry, where amongst other roles he played Orlando and Mercutio.
He joined the National Theatre in 1973 and parts there included Yasha in Michael Blakemore’s production of The Cherry Orchard and Lucio in Measure For Measure, directed by Jonathan Miller. A year at the Queens Theatre followed playing Attilio in Zefferelli’s production of Saturday Sunday Monday. After the Trevor Griffiths play AIl Good Men at the Young Vic, he was in the Jonathan Miller Shakespeare season at Greenwich, playing Parolles in Alls Well and repeating his Lucio in Measure. He has twice played Nicholas Nickleby in the Sherrill/Brahms Nickleby and Me at Stratford East and Chichester and spent a year in Side By Side By Sondheim at the Wyndhams and The Garrick.
Other musicals have included, Gigi at Leicester Haymarket Wonderland at the Kings Head and the revues Happy as a Sandbag (Leicester) and Betjemania which played for a season in New York. He spent a season with the Old Vic Company playing in the double bill Padlock and Miss In Her Teens and played Tasman in the Charles Marowitz version of Hedda Gabler at The Roundhouse.
Other West End appearances have been in The Chairman at the Globe in 1976 and the Jonathan Miller Hamlet at the Warehouse and The Piccadilly in 1982. In 1983 he twice appeared at the Adelphi: as Arthur Miller in Marilyn and Jack idle in Poppy. His next West End appearance was as Algy in the benignly disastrous musical version of The Importance Of Being Ernest which made a brief visit to the Ambassadors Theatre.
He has recently appeared in both of the highly successful adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan by Ned Sherrin and Alistair Beaton on the South Bank; The Ratepayers Iolanthe transferring for a season to the Phoenix Theatre.
He has made numerous television appearances in productions as diverse as Troilus and Cressida to Yes Minster. He is currently to be seen in the LWT series Drummonds. He also writes for Television, but last year completed his first stage musical, with John Owen Edwards, Canary Blunt which played two successful seasons at the Latchmore Theatre, with an album shortly to be released on TEM records.
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David Firth News
Flying Lotus Shares New Video & Song 'Post Requisite'; Continues US Tour
Following from the first shows of Flying Lotus' 3D tour, including a sold out show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Thundercat and Hannibal Buress (as part of RBMA Los Angeles) and Berkeley dates with Solange and Earl Sweatshirt, Flying Lotus presents the new video and song 'Post Requisite.'
David Firth's Locust Toybox Releases New Album 'Drownscapes' Today
Brainfeeder today announces and releases 'Drownscapes' - a new sonic adventure by Locust Toybox - on the eve of Halloween (October 30, 2017) as is befitting of such an eerily beautiful and otherworldly ambient excursion. Album art, tracklist, and more information below.
Tim Heidecker, Donnell Rawlings and Lexi Steele join Flying Lotus' KUSO
Brainfeeder Films has announced that Flying Lotus, aka Steve Ellison, has added Tim Heidecker and Lexington Steele to the cast of the feature film KUSO
George Clinton, Anders Holm & Byron Bowers join Flying Lotus' KUSO
Brainfeeder Films has announced today that musical legend George Clinton, and comedians Byron Bowers and Anders Holm have joined the cast of acclaimed and celebrated music artist Flying Lotus' feature film debut KUSO. The film, which Flying Lotus is directing, is Brainfeeder's first feature film and will be produced by Eddie Alcazar.
Flying Lotus Formally Launches Film Finance and Production Company Brainfeeder Films
Acclaimed and celebrated music artist Flying Lotus and filmmaker Eddie Alcazar have partnered up to form the independent film finance and production outfit Brainfeeder Films
West End THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Cast Album to be Released in February
Stage Door Records are pleased to announce that the previously unreleased studio cast recording of the 1984 West End musical 'The Importance' will be released on February 26th, 2016. The CD release continues Stage Door's commitment to preserve 'lost' British theatre scores of the past 50 years.
Orson Welles and Cole Porter's AROUND THE WORLD Comes to NYC, Now thru 12
London director, Ian Marshall Fisher has rediscovered the long lost play written by the unique collaboration of Orson Welles and Cole Porter, AROUND THE WORLD. This historical Welles and Porter partnership (Citizen Kane & Touch Of Evil meets Kiss Me, Kate & Anything Goes) is based on their take on Jules Verne's Around The World in 80 Days. AROUND THE WORLD will play a series of 'Benefit/Fundraising' performances in London's Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells, and will be unveiled to Americans for the first time in over seventy years at New York's Mint Theatre.
Orson Welles and Cole Porter's AROUND THE WORLD to Play London, Now thru Nov 10
London director, Ian Marshall Fisher has rediscovered the long lost play written by the unique collaboration of Orson Welles and Cole Porter, AROUND THE WORLD. This historical Welles and Porter partnership (Citizen Kane & Touch Of Evil meets Kiss Me, Kate & Anything Goes) is based on their take on Jules Verne's Around The World in 80 Days. AROUND THE WORLD will play a series of 'Benefit/Fundraising' performances in London's Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells, and will be unveiled to Americans for the first time in over seventy years at New York's Mint Theatre.
Orson Welles and Cole Porter's AROUND THE WORLD to Play London, Oct 20-Nov 10; Comes to NYC, Dec 6-12
London director, Ian Marshall Fisher has rediscovered the long lost play written by the unique collaboration of Orson Welles and Cole Porter, AROUND THE WORLD. This historical Welles and Porter partnership (Citizen Kane & Touch Of Evil meets Kiss Me, Kate & Anything Goes) is based on their take on Jules Verne's Around The World in 80 Days. AROUND THE WORLD will play a series of 'Benefit/Fundraising' performances in London's Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells, and will be unveiled to Americans for the first time in over seventy years at New York's Mint Theatre.
David Firth FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How many Broadway shows has David Firth been in?
David Firth has not appeared on Broadway.
How many West End shows has David Firth been in?
David Firth has appeared on London's West End in 8 shows.
What was David Firth's first West End show?
David Firth's first West End show was 1776 which opened in 1970
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