Applause Magazine – May 1997
August 27, 2010
Published between1996 and 1997, Applause was a newsstand and subscription magazine devoted to UK theatre.
Edited by Clive Hirschhorn, it was published by ticket agency Applause and aimed to provide theatregoers with informed comment, interviews, features, reviews, and gossip about the plays and players making news in both London and New York. It also provided special offers and discounts on West End shows and event.
CONTENTS
Issue 8, May 1997
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Applause Magazine - May 1997
OFFSTAGE – News and gossip from around the West End
THE MOUSE MUSCLES IN – Matt Wolf looks at Disney’s Broadway and West End ventures
NEW FACES – Disney’s Beauty and the Beast’s Julie-Alanah Brighten
JOHN BARROWMAN – talking to Martin Stirling
ONSTAGE – Clive Hirschhorn reviews the West End’s latest offerings
ACT OF COMPLICITE – Clare Colvin talks to Simon McBurney about the work of Theatre de Complicite
APPLAUSE THEATRE CLUB – Christopher Biggins brings you more great money-saving offers on top West End shows
NED SHERRIN
HAUNTED HOUSES – Linn Branson goes ghost-hunting in London’s theatres
TERRENCE MCNALLY – Patrick Pacheco on the American playwright hoping to make his mark here with Master Class
HAT TRICKS – San Francisco’s cult caper Beach Blanket Babylon hits town. Sasha de Suinn goes shopping for hats
SUMMER FARE – Michael Coveney takes a look at this year’s summer festivals
BOOK REVIEWS – Rhoda Koenig on the lives of Ibsen and Peggy Ashcroft
SPECTRUM – Opera, Dance, and TV reviews and previews by Max Loppert, Jeffery Taylor and Ronald Bergan
PEOPLE WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE – Designer John Napier talks to Nick Smurthwaite
OFFSTAGE BROADWAY – Michael Riedel with news and gossip from the Big Apple
QUIZ
SHOWS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE – Roy Hattersley, MP
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Barricades at dawn
June 30, 2010
Controversy surrounding Les Mis 25th anniversary celebrations
I could be wrong, but I don’t think Cameron Mackintosh will be linking arms with Trev and the two Johns in October and singing a rousing final chorus of One Day More, as I had previously imagined.
In a rare breach of luvvie protocal, original Les Miserables director Trevor Nunn has had a good old-fashioned “go” at Cameron Mackintosh in today’s Telegraph (Trevor Nunn: I feel betrayed by the new Les Mis).
Speaking on behalf of the original creative team behind the show – Nunn, co-director John Caird and designer John Napier – Nunn reveals that they are apparently “profoundly unhappy… profoundly betrayed” at not being included in staging the “new” 25th Anniversary production, which has been “reimagined” (a bit) by James Powell and Laurence Connor.
Mark Shenton’s excellent commentary in today’s The Stage is really all you need to know on the subject, so I won’t go on.
Suffice to say that this could be one Les Mis story too many for us as we reach dangerous levels of Les Mis exhaustion (although not as tired as Nick Jonas), given Nick’s London presence at the Queen’s, the special O2 Arena concert in October AND your chance to compare and contrast as the current UK touring production starring Gareth Gates comes to the Barbican this summer.
Please God can Cameron’s right-hand man Nick Allott use some of his expert mediating and healing powers to clear this one up before celebrations are well and truly soured.
Book tickets to Les Miserables at the Queens Theatre in London
Book tickets to see Nick Jonas in Les Miserables 25th Anniversary concert at the O2
Book tickets to Les Miserables 25th Anniversary production at the Barbican Theatre
OLIVIER AWARDS – Best Set and Design Winners
June 9, 2010
OLIVIER AWARDS – Best Set and Design Winners
Best Set Design
2011 The White Guard designed by Bunny Christie
2010 Jerusalem designed by Ultz
2009 August: Osage County designed by Todd Rosenthal
2008 Rae Smith and the Handspring Puppet Company for War Horse
2007 Sunday In The Park With George, designed by David Farley and Timothy Bird
2006 Hedda Gabler designed by Rob Howell
2005 His Dark Materials designed by Giles Cadle
2004 Hitchcock Blonde designed by William Dudley
2003 A Streetcar Named Desire designed by Bunny Christie
Best Set Designer
2002 Tim Hatley for Humble Boy and Private Lives
2001 William Dudley for All My Sons
2000 Rob Howell for Richard III, Troilus and Cressida and Vassa
1999 Anthony Ward for Oklahoma!
1998 Tim Goodchild for Three Hours After Marriage
1997 Tim Hatley for Stanley
1996 John Napier for Burning Blue
1995 Stephen Brimson Lewis for Design for Living and Les Parents Terribles
1994 Mark Thompson for Hysteria
1993 Ian MacNeil for An Inspector Calls
1992 Mark Thompson for The Comedy Of Errors
1991 Mark Thompson for The Wind In The Willows
Designer of the Year
1989/90Bob Crowley for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Hedda Gabler, Ghetto and The Plantagenets
1988 Richard Hudson for his season at The Old Vic
1987 Lucio Fanti (with Design Team) for The Hairy Ape
1986 William Dudley for Futurists, Kafka’s Dick and The Merry Wives Of Windsor
1985 William Dudley for The Mysteries and The Critics
1984 John Gunter for Wild Honey
1983 Ralph Koltai for Cyrano De Bergerac
1982 John Gunter for Guys And Dolls
1981 Carl Toms for The Provok’d Wife
1980 John Napier and Dermot Hayes for Nicholas Nickleby
1979 William Dudley for Undiscovered Country
1978 Ralph Koltai for Brand
1977 John Napier for King Lear
1976 Farrah for Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2) and Henry V
