Brigadoon - West End Creative Team

Alan Jay Lerner wrote some of America's best loved and enduring stage and movie musicals with Frederick Loewe over a period of more than 25 years: Life of the Party, What's Up, The Day Before Spring, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Gigi. He also wrote Love Life with Kurt Weill, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Carmelina with Burton Lane, Coco with Andre Previn, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with Leonard Bernstein and Dance a Little Closer with Charles Strouse. He wrote the libretto and/or lyrics for the following films: An American in Paris, Gigi, ... read more Will Burton is thrilled to be back at The Palace Theater! Broadway: Hello, Dolly! (Ambrose); Kiss Me, Kate (Gremio); An American in Paris; Holiday Inn. Off Broadway: Between the Lines (Frump/Ryan). Other highlights: Young Frankenstein (Igor), Ogunquit; Last Days of Summer (Stuke), George Street; Holiday Inn (Ted), Marriott Lincolnshire; The Music Man (Tommy), Arena Stage; and An American in Paris, Theatre du Chatelet. TV: “The Blacklist.” Thanks to Mama, Daddy, Callen, Haley, all of my teachers and my incredible reps at CGF! @willburtonum Theatre credits include: Blindness (Donmar Warehouse/UK Tour/Royal Theater Carré, Amsterdam/Daryl Roth Theatre, New York); Inside (Orange Tree); The Band Plays On (Sheffield); Dick Whittington (National); Fairview (Young Vic); Equus (Stratford East/ETT/Trafalgar Studios/UK Tour); The Glow, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, Pah-La (Royal Court); Snowflake (Kiln); The Last of the Pelican Daughters (Complicité, Edinburgh/Royal & Derngate); Cuckoo (Soho); Armadillo (The Yard); Rockets and Blue Lights (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Reasons to Stay Alive (Sheffield/ETT/UK Tour); One (Manchester Home/UK Tour/International Tour); Summer Rolls (also Bristol Old Vic), A Pupil (Park); Faces in the Crowd, Mephisto [A Rhapsody], Dear Elizabeth, The Human Voice ... read more Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada Theatre: Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Toronto) Film: Blues Brothers 2000, Ruby’s Bucket of Blood Other: Danced with Tavaziva Dance Company (UK), Dallas Black Dance Theater (US). Received a BA (Hons) Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario and served as Dance Captain - Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Training: Bird College of Performing Arts. Theatre includes: Lorraine Fleming and understudy Ann Reilly in 42nd Street (Curve, Leicester), Broadway Ballet Girl and understudy Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain (Chichester Festival Theatre), Soho Cinders (Stiles and Drewe, Queen’s), soloist in Stephen Mear’s Shoes (Sadler’s Wells), The Frug Girl in Sweet Charity (Haymarket and Menier Chocolate Factory), Showgirl in L’Heure Espagnole (Royal Opera House), The Right Girl in Shall We Dance choreographed by Adam Cooper (original company, Sadler’s Wells), soloist in Be Mine choreographed by Drew McOnie (The Place and Jackson’s Lane), ensemble in On the Town choreographed by Stephen ... read more