Craig Revel Horwood will direct COPACABANA at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Berskhire, England, whatsonstage.com reports. The production, which will play from July 21 to September 4, will star Edward Baker Duly (Stephen/Tony) and Laura Pitt-Pulford (Samantha/Lola). COPACABANA, written by Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, and Jack Feldman, is the story of a songwriter who makes up the character Lola Lamar, who has many adventures in New York while seeking recognition as a showgirl.
Craig Revel Horwood will direct COPACABANA at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Berskhire, England, whatsonstage.com reports. The production, which will play from July 21 to September 4, will star Edward Baker Duly (Stephen/Tony) and Laura Pitt-Pulford (Samantha/Lola). COPACABANA, written by Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, and Jack Feldman, is the story of a songwriter who makes up the character Lola Lamar, who has many adventures in New York while seeking recognition as a showgirl.
Today June 4, the staff of the upcoming new show 'Yma - zu schoen, um war zu sein' are working hard for the show's premiere in September. The translation of the title into english is 'Yma - too good to be true'. The show will open at the Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin, Germany in September. German designer Michael Michalsky and costume director Anja Diefenbach can be seen preparing the costumes while choreographer Craig Revel Horwood instructs dancers with ballet director Alexandra Georgieva during rehearsals.
Based On A True Story, a brand new musical black comedy that examines the question 'how far will a writer go to be famous?', will receive a one night showcase staging at the Jermyn Street Theatre on Sunday January 31, 2010 at 8pm. T
After a sell-out run at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury in 2006, Craig Revel Horwood's actor-musician production of The Hot Mikado is back on the road and will hit London in September, when it will play at the Rose Theatre, Kingston from the 22nd to the 26th.
After a sell-out run at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury in 2006, Craig Revel Horwood's actor-musician production of The Hot Mikado is back on the road and will hit London in September, when it will play at the Rose Theatre, Kingston from the 22nd to the 26th.
Kirsty Hoiles, who has spent the summer wowing audiences as the young Viv Nicholson in Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill Theatre, has now joined the all-star cast of Snappy Title, (the charity cabaret at Piccadilly's Pigalle Club in aid of MMD and the Actors' Benefit Club.
After a sell-out run at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury in 2006, Craig Revel Horwood's actor-musician production of The Hot Mikado is back on the road and will hit London in September, when it will play at the Rose Theatre, Kingston from the 22nd to the 26th.
Spend Spend Spend, a show that first hit the West End back in 1999 - with its tuneful score, hard-nosed but also raunchily humorous book and an emotional core that rings with human truth - is a much underrated gem of a musical. Now, in a newly forged 'actor-musician' production at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, the gem sparkles and shines even brighter.
Sunset Boulevard at the West End's intimate Comedy Theatre closes today May 30, 2009. UK theatre sources are reporting that plans are in the works to launch a UK tour in early 2010 as well as some talk of bringing the production to New York, but no official announcement has yet been made.
UK Productions of The Lion King, Blood Brothers and Sunset Boulevard have all been extended in the West End.
The Lion King is running at the Lyceum Theater and has added four months to its schedule, bookings are being taken until January 31 2010. This company features Shaun Escoffery as Mufasa.
Sunset Boulevard at the Comedy Theater, London, has extended its run and will now close June 27, 2009. The run of this musical originally opened in 2008 and was set to run until April 18th; however, after being nominated for three Laurence Olivier Awards the production lengthened its engagement.
The Pittsburgh Dance Council will captivate Pittsburgh audiences on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. at the Byham Theater with an invigorating performance of award-winning repertoire by Ballet Boyz - Broken Fall, Propeller, EdOx, and Yumba vs. Nonino. The New York Times writes, 'Ballet's most charming ambassadors...make dance immediate, accessible and exhilarating.'
The winners are being announced as they happen for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, London's equivalent of the Tonys. The awards, which were created in 1976 were given out on Sunday March 8, 2009 in a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel.
The Pittsburgh Dance Council will captivate Pittsburgh audiences on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. at the Byham Theater with an invigorating performance of award-winning repertoire by Ballet Boyz - Broken Fall, Propeller, EdOx, and Yumba vs. Nonino. The New York Times writes, 'Ballet's most charming ambassadors...make dance immediate, accessible and exhilarating.'
Nominations have been announced for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, London's equivalent of the Tonys. The awards, which were created in 1976 will be given out on Sunday March 8, 2009 in a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel.
Howard Panter, the dynamic UK co-founder of the Ambassador Theater Group, the producing company and owner of 23 London theatre venues, is setting his sights on Broadway in a VERY big way reports Variety. The trade paper reports that he has created an ambitious list of new projects targeting for Broadway -- including a handful of productions and in very exciting news, a possible new theater space.
In a year when new musical theatre productions in London consisted of juke box transfers, classic revivals, whimsical adventure stories and majestic failures, one might be forgiven for thinking that the age of great new musicals exists merely in days of Auld Lang Syne. So let's pause and think back over the year's musical fayre.
