Photos: Burlesque A New Musical at the Jermyn Street Theatre
November 13, 2011
Production photos of Burlesque, a new musical at the Jermyn Street Theatre written by Adam Meggido and Roy Smiles.
BURLESQUE A New musical. Photo by Roy Tan.
Set in America in 1952, the show is a homage to the golden age of the great American book-musical, with all the grit and relevance of contemporary politics and entertainment. Burlesque is written by Adam Meggido, the award-winning creator of Showstopper ! The Improvised Musical, and Roy Smiles who is an award-winning comedian, author and playwright whose West End credits include Ying Tong, The Rat Pack and Bombing People.
The cast includes Linal Haft, Buster Skeggs, Jon Paul Hevey, Chris Holland, Alicia Davies, Victoria Serra, Sinead Mathias and Jeremiah Harris Ward.
Photos by Roy Tan.
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Caroline Sheen returns to the West End in Favourite Things and Les Miserables
May 6, 2011
West End actress Caroline Sheen is to return to London this summer following a year-long tour of the USA starring in Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Mary Poppins.
Caroline Sheen
The actress, who is a cousin of actor Michael Sheen, will return to Les Miserables at the Queen’s Theatre in June to play the role of Fantine. Caroline originally played Eponine in the show ten years ago. She will join some high-profile new starters on the show this summer including Alfie Boe and Matt Lucas.
Ahead of returning to Les Mis she will sing musical interludes to accompany These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things at the Jermyn Street Theatre, where theatre critic of The Stage, Mark Shenton, will interview a host of well-known theatre names.
The show, in aid of charity the Theatrical Guild which supports backstage and front of house theatre workers, will feature Shrek The Musical and Anna Christie director Rob Ashford, director and choreographer Craig Revel Horwood, Blood Brothers and Dreamboats and Petticoats producer Bill Kenwright, producer Michael Codron, the National Theatre’s director Nicholas Hytner, West End actress and current Shakespeare’s Globe star Janie Dee, veteran theatre school director Sylvia Young, and Betty Blue Eyes and Mary Poppins songwriting team George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.
The show will run at the Jermyn Street Theatre from 29 May to 4 June 2011.
Caroline Sheen has appeared in numerous West End shows including Grease, Into the Woods, Mamma Mia!, The Witches of Eastwick, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Last month she played a cabaret show alongside Evita and Zorro star Matt Rawle at the Battersea Barge in London. She is married to actor Michael Jibson, who will star alongside David Bedella this summer in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s premiere of new Stephen Sondheim’s latest musical, Road Show.
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Book tickets to Les Miserables at the Queen’s Theatre in London
The Jermyn Street Theatre website
Photos: The Kissing Dance at the Jermyn Street Theatre
March 29, 2011
Production photos of The Kissing Dance at the Jermyn Street Theatre
Beverley Klein, Gemma Sutton and David Burt in The Kissing Dance. Photo: © Roy Tan
A joyful musical adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith’s classic comedy She Stoops to Conquer by Howard Goodall and Charles Hart at Jermyn Street Theatre. Stars David Alder, Gina Beck, David Burt, Lila Clements, Greg Herst, Beverley Klein, Samuel Martin, Harriet Oughton, Jack Shalloo, Lauren Storer, Gemma Sutton, Dylan Turner and Ian Virgo.
Until 23rd April 2011 at the Jermyn Street Theatre
Music by Howard Goodall
Lyrics & Book by Charles Hart
Directed by Lotte Wakeham
Musical Direction by Tom Attwood
Designer Samal Blak
Lighting Designer Christopher Nairne
Costume Designer Karen Frances
Choreography by Tim Jackson
Photos by Roy Tan
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Transfer News: Juliet Stevenson, Avenue Q, Prunella Scales and War Horse
March 17, 2009
It’s all change in the West End as a number of shows close to make way for transfers from other theatres. In an increasingly risk-averse climate for producers, a hit in a small venue or success in a limited run could mean money if it transfers into the West End. The subsidised National Theatre and Almeida are bringing in War Horse and Duet for One respectively, Cameron Mackintosh decides to keep Avenue Q running and Carrie’s War and Saturday Night transfer from smaller venues.
Duet For One
The Almeida’s recently acclaimed production Duet for One will transfer to the West End in May.
Tom Kempinski’s two-hander stars Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman and centres on a concert violinist (Stevenson) who goes to a psychiatrist (Goodman) in the wake of a tragedy.
Directed by Matthew Lloyd, it will transfer to the Vaudeville Theatre from 7th May.
Avenue Q
There’s nothing like the threat of missing out to boost a show. Avenue Q - which has already run for 3 years at the Noel Coward Theatre, had announced its closure to make way for Calendar Girls.
But a new demand for tickets to catch the show before it exits London has promoted Cameron Mackintosh to transfer it to another one of his theatres – this time the Gielgud. It will reside there from 1 June.
Avenue Q will replace Enjoy starring Alison Steadman and David Troughton.
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Carrie’s War
Heart-warming family drama Carrie’s War – about two young evacuees during the Second World War and based on the classic kid’s novel by Nina Bawden is transferring from Sadler’s Wells into the West End.
Much loved actress Prunella Scales stars in the play, which will begin on 18 June at the Apollo Theatre. The show also stars Sarah Edwardson, who reprises the role of Carrie, and Amanda Symonds and James Beddard.
Carrie’s War will replace Three Days of Rain at the Apollo, currently starring James McAvoy.
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War Horse
From World War II to the First World War – and the opening this month in the West End of the National Theatre’s critically smash-hit War Horse – galloping across the river from the National to the New London Theatre from next week – 28th March.
The award-winning adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, set during World War I,is directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, and is told using the puppetry of the South African Handspring Puppet Company – including life-size horses and a tank!
Sondheim’s Saturday Night
Stephen Sondheim’s first Broadway musical Saturday Night will at long last enjoy a West End premiere, despite being penned by Sondheim in the 1950s.
After selling out run the Jermyn Street Theatre, it will come to the Arts Theatre for a short run from 25 March. Set it New York just before the Wall Street crash of 1929, the show stars Helena Blackman, who was runner up in the BBC1 talent show “How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?”
