Nunn to 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' in West End?

WhatsOnStage.com is reporting that world-renowned director Trevor Nunn is rumoured to be planning a stage adaptation of the classic film Breakfast at Tiffany's for the West End stage.

The 1961 film version is based on Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name and stars Audrey Hepburn in what is one of her most memorable roles. WhatsOnStage reveals that Nunn is about to secure a deal which will bring a musical version to the UK stage in 2009.

David Merrick's 1966 musical production of Breakfast at Tiffany's remains one of the most notorious disasters in the history of Broadway musicals, closing after just four nights. Nunn himself recently had a creative failure of his own when his stage adaptation of epic film Gone with the Wind closed in the West End are just 79 performances in June 2008.

Trevor Nunn has directed King Lear in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival, Porgy and Bess at the Savoy Theatre and Tom Stoppard's multi award-winning Rock 'n' Roll at the Royal Court and Duke of York's. From 1968 to 1986 he was Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing over thirty productions, including most of the Shakespeare canon. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of The National Theatre, directing twenty-one shows including Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia and award-winning revivals of Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. His other more recent theatre productions include Hamlet and Richard II for the Old Vic and The RoyAl Hunt of the Sun at the National, and previously Nicholas Nickleby, Starlight Express, Les Miserables, Chess, Sunset Boulevard and The Woman in White. His most recent UK work is the current revival of A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

For the entire article visit WhatsOnStage.com.

Photo of Trevor Nunn by Linda Lenzi

 

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