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Lady in the dark (1997-03-National Theatre Lyttelton Theatre-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: National Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Salle : Lyttelton Theatre
Durée : 4 mois 3 semaines
Nombre : 63 représentations
Première Preview : Tuesday 11 March 1997
Première : Tuesday 11 March 1997
Dernière : Saturday 02 August 1997
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Queeny Sachs
Producteur :
Avec : Maria Friedman (Liza Elliott), Paul Shelley (Kendall Nesbitt), Adrian Dunbar (Charley Johnson), Steven Edward Moore (Randy Curtis), James Dreyfus (Russell Paxton), Hugh Ross (Dr. Brooks), Ashleigh Sendin (Miss Foster), Summer Rognlie (Alison Dubois), Charlotte Cornwall
Commentaires : This was the first collaboration of Ira Gershwin following the death of his brother, and ran for 467 performances in New York in 1941. The leading role was played by Gertrude Lawrence, and the show made a star of newcomer Danny Kaye in the role of a camp photographer with a show-stopping patter number “Tchaikowsky”.
The musical is so constructed that all the numbers are sung during the dream sequences that Liza describes to her doctor. The only exception is the song “My Ship” which serves a special part of the plot: it is a half-remembered song from Liza’s childhood and because Charley is the only man who can complete the song for her, he wins Liza’s love.
55 years after its Broadway debut, this was its first London production, though it did have a production at Nottingham in 1981 with Celeste Holm. The critics found it fascinating and important, but felt it suffered by comparison with “Guys & Dolls” which was currently the opposition under the same National Theatre roof
Presse : "...Surprisingly, Maria Friedman turns out to be far better at playing Liza, the cool and often collected editress of Allure Magazine – with her talent for cut and thrust - than as the suffering girl on the verge of a nervous breakdown... Miss Friedman in in sweet voice and artfully holds the balance between drama and music, which Lady in the Dark so cleverly celebrates. It is a rousing occasion." Nicholas de Jongh, The London Evening Standard (12 March 1997)
"...[The Lady in the Dark's] saving grace is Weill's score, which allies the emotional plangency of Berlin period to Broadway idioms...The other good reason for seeing the show, as with Sondheim's Passion, is Maria Friedman's stellar performance. She actually persuades you that inside the professionally masterful but emotionally dithering Liza lurks a badly bruised spirit. She sings the big numbers with a direct lyric simplicity and she allows her Guiletta Massina-like clown instinct to emerge in a circus sequence where she cavorts with the pawkiness of a wild-eyed child. The evening belongs unequivocally to her..." Michael Billington, The Guardian (12 March 1997)
"...By all accounts Gertrude Lawrence was magic as the fashion-mag editor...Maria Friedman, who is fronting what the National claims is the musical's belated British premiere, is not quite so charismatic, but once again she proves herself splendidly versatile, resourceful performer... The supporting cast is fine and Friedman more than fine. When she exits from a big-top fantasy episode to launch first into Weill's celebration of vamps, The Saga of Jenny, and then into his splendedly robust love song. My Ship - well, she had the first-night audience wishing the palm of her hand was larger, so we could spend more time in it." Benedict Nightingale, The Times (12 March 1997)
"...The woman having the crack-up is Liza Elliot, the hotshot editor of a leading fashion magazine. In this role, Maria Friedman is badly miscast. She's too sweet, concessive-looking and breathy to project the drive, authority and magnetism that have got this business-suited woman to the top. It's true that in Sondheim's Passion, Friedman conveyed power, but it was the potency of an implacably loving masochism. Here you need a stronger sense of the enamelled armour Liza has built around herself. For if the charcter in Passion was straightforwardly ugly, in Lady in the Dark, the heroine is found to be compensating for the fact that she was thought unattractive to her parents as a child. It's a discovery that allows the show to employ psychoanalysis to endorse traditional roles. Liza's success has nothing to do with trying to compete on equal terms with men, we deduce from the shrink, rather it's the refusal to risk being hurt by competeting with other women. So of the three complete ciphers who want to marry her, she ends up choosing the one who also wants her job..." Paul Taylor, The Independent (13 March 1997)
"...Despite an excellent cast, Lady in the Dark seems like an exercise in theatrical archaeology... The show isn't helped by the fact that Freudian psychoanalysis, for which Lady in the Dark often seems one long advertisement, is increasingly discredited... What scuppers Lady in the Dark, though, is the ;ack of warmth and audience involvement. Maria Friedman is one of our finest musical-theatre talents, but, although she communicated moments of mental distress as Liza, she never comes close to moving you..." Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph (13 March 1997)

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Little Mermaid (The) (2007-07-Denver Center for the Performing Arts-Denver)

Type de série: Pre-Broasway Try Out
Théâtre: Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Denver - Etats-Unis)
Durée : 1 mois 2 semaines
Nombre :
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Thursday 26 July 2007
Dernière : Sunday 09 September 2007
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Stephen Mear
Producteur :

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Little Mermaid (The) (2008-01-Lunt-Fontanne Theatre-Broadway)

Type de série: Original Broadway
Théâtre: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (Broadway - Etats-Unis)
Durée : 1 an 7 mois 3 semaines
Nombre : 50 previews -
Première Preview : Saturday 03 November 2007
Première : Thursday 10 January 2008
Dernière : Sunday 30 August 2009
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Stephen Mear
Producteur :

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Napoleon (2000-10-Shaftesbury Theatre-London)

Type de série: Original London
Théâtre: Shaftesbury Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)

Durée : 3 mois 2 semaines
Nombre : 127 représentations
Première Preview : Tuesday 17 October 2000
Première : Tuesday 17 October 2000
Dernière : Saturday 03 February 2001
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Denis L. Sayers
Producteur :
Avec : Paul Baker as 'Napoleon' (Uwe Kroger will play the part at certain performances) Anastasia Barzee as 'Josephine'. David Burt, David Arneil, Steve Bradford, Jacqueline Braun, Lynsey Britton, Anthony Cable, Jody Crosier, Iain Davey, Heather Davies, Nicholas Dunbar, Chris Fennessy, Susie Fenwick, Hugh Futcher, Lydia Griffiths, Kristin Hellberg, Kristin Holck, Sarah Ingram, Teddy Kempner, Gerard Leighton, Roy Litvin, Andy Mace, Oliver Marshall, Anthony Moulton, Anita Pashley, Vince Pirillo, Nicholas Pound, Nigel Richards, Tom Sellwood, Louisa Shaw , Mark Stobbart
Commentaires : This Canadian musical opened in Toronto in March 1994 to great success. The London production had Olivier Award winner Francesco Zambello from the opera world as director, Jonathan Tunick’s orchestrations and both Paul Baker and Uwe Kroger alternating as Napoleon. (Uwe Kroger performed three shows a week, Paul Baker doing the other five.) However, it ran just under 4 months. It was one of the early pioneers of Sunday performances and although weekends were sold out, the rest of the week was thin. With 32 in the cast and an orchestra of 28, producers cited the high running costs as the main reason for closure which came on February 3rd. Generally the original notices had been hostile, and, of course, most could not resist using the phrase “Not tonight, Josephine” as advice to the readers.
Presse : SHERIDAN MORLEY for TELETEXT wrote a positive review, saying, "Well, what a surprise. Just as West End musicals were going minimalist and dark along comes the most lavish, over-the- top extravaganza since Ivor Novello dropped dead in King's Rhapsody in 1951. True, Napoleon is not all that good. But director Francesca Zambello.... has thrown everything at it. Tosca and Traviata combined have nothing on what is happening here."

BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE for THE TIMES was not impressed, saying the show had "music that often went tum-tum, lyrics that regularly went plonk-plonk, and rhymes that sometimes left me wishing no such thing as rhyme had been invented". He ends his review, "As it is, there's only one answer to the question of whether this new musical is stronger and more enjoyable than the year's other Gallic offerings. Not tonight, Josephine."

PAUL TAYLOR for THE INDEPENDENT says, "...Napoleon is severely deluded and in urgent need of counselling. Last night's opening presented us with two and three-quarter hours of hammy historical hokum, diversified by a couple of moments that served to indicate what might have been if anyone around had had any taste." He goes on to describe the score as "Talentless" and the lyrics "Dire". He was however impressed by the set design, describing it as "slick and fluent ", but says, "...man cannot live by sets alone."

CHARLES SPENCER FOR THE DAILY TELEGRAPH says, "The show is a shameless attempt to cash in on the vast box-office success of Les Miserables. Unfortunately it seems like a dismally pale imitation, with almost none of the drama or thrilling theatrical spectacle." He goes on to say, "Williams's score is a non-stop parade of churning, ersatz-emotional anthems that go straight in one ear and out the other without troubling the brain, heart or memory, while the triteness of Sabiston's lyrics often beggars belief."

NICHOLAS DE JONGH for THE EVENING STANDARD says, The songs are unmemorable and unhummable."

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Rebecca (2006-09-Raimund Theatre-Vienne)

Type de série: Original
Théâtre: Raimund Theater (Vienne - Autriche)
Durée : 1 an 3 mois
Nombre :
Première Preview : Thursday 28 September 2006
Première : Thursday 28 September 2006
Dernière : Sunday 30 December 2007
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Denis L. Sayers
Producteur :
Avec : Wietske van Tongeren (»Ich«), Uwe Kröger (Maxim de Winter), Susan Rigvava-Dumas (Mrs Danvers), Kerstin Ibald (Beatrice / Cover Mrs Danvers), Carsten Lepper (Jack Favell), André Bauer (Frank Crawley), Noberto Bertassi (Ben), Carin Filipčić (Mrs van Hopper), Marika Lichter (Mrs van Hopper (vom 6. September 2007 bis 30. Dezember 2007)), Marcel Meyer (Giles / Cover Frank Crawley / Ensemble), Andreas Kammerzelt (Frith / Cover Frank Crawley / Cover Oberst Julyan / Ensemble), Dennis Kozeluh (Oberst Julyan), Oliver Mülich (Robert / Ensemble), Karsten Kammeier (Frith / Swing), Kai Peterson (Horridge / Cover Jack Fawell / Cover Oberst Julyan / Ensemble), Robert D. Marx (Cover Frank Crawley / Ensemble), Jana Stelley (Clarice / Cover »Ich« / Ensemble), Thomas Bayer (Cover Oberst Julyan / Ensemble), Leigh Martha Klinger (Cover »Ich« / Ensemble), Kathleen Bauer (Cover Beatrice / Ensemble), Michaela Christl (Cover Mrs Danvers / Cover Beatrice / Ensemble), Katharina Dorian (Cover Mrs van Hopper / Ensemble), Tim Reichwein (Cover Maxim de Winter / Cover Jack Fawell / Ensemble), Claudie Reinhard (Cover Mrs van Hopper / Ensemble), Christoph Sommersguter (Cover Robert / Ensemble), Joana Fee Würz (Cover »Ich« / Ensemble), Lucius Wolter (Cover Maxim de Winter / Ensemble), Simon Eichenberger (Swing / Dance Captain), Noud Hell (Cover Ben / Swing), Tina Schöltzke (Clarice / Swing), Matthias Stockinger (Frith / Ensemble), Oliver Wejwar (Cover Robert / Ensemble), Fritz Schmid (Cover Ben / Swing), Bettina Bogdany (Ensemble), Sigrid Brandstetter (Ensemble), Nathalie Kleeberger (Ensemble), Henrik Sehnert (Ensemble), Sara Widén (Ensemble), Martina Dorothea Rumpf (Ensemble), Barbara Obermeier (Ensemble), Max Niemeyer (Ensemble), Ruth Kraus (Ensemble), Raphael Dörr (Ensemble), Katrin Mersch (Swing), Matilda Hansson (Swing), Markus Simader (Swing), Ramin Dustdar (Jack Fawell (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008)), Fernand Delosch (Giles / Cover Frank Crawley / Ensemble (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008)), Silke Braas-Wolter (Cover »Ich« / Ensemble / Dance Captain (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008)), Conny Braun (Cover Mrs van Hopper / Ensemble (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008)), Anna Veit (Cover Mrs van Hopper / Ensemble (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008)),
Commentaires : Cette comédie musicale est écrite par le duo Michael Kunze et Sylvester Levay à qui nous devons aussi "Elisabeth" et "Mozart!". Ils se sont inspiré d'un roman de Daphné du Maurier qui avait déjà été adapté par Alfred Hitchcok dans les années '40. Il s'agit ici de la version de la création mondiale (septembre 2006) avec une équipe fabuleuse tant dans les créateurs (la metteur en scène est Francesca Zambello, reconnue dans le monde entier pour son travail sur les opéra , le théâtre et les musicals (Napoléon, Little Mermaid, …)) que dans les artistes de plateau (Uwe Krüger et la jeune Wietske vab Tongerne dans le rôle titre). Le spectacle est grandiose: de nombreux décors qui alternent à vue, moyens techniques impressionnants (video, pyrotechnie, …).

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Rebecca (2008-04-Imperial Theatre-Tokyo)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Imperial Theater (Tokyo - Japon)
Durée :
Nombre :
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Sunday 06 April 2008
Dernière : Thursday 31 December 2009
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Denis L. Sayers
Producteur :

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Rebecca (2008-08-City Theatre-Helsinki)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: City Theatre (Helsiniki - Finlande)
Durée :
Nombre :
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Thursday 28 August 2008
Dernière : Saturday 09 May 2009
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Denis L. Sayers
Producteur :

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Rebecca (2008-09-Raimund Theatre-Vienne)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Raimund Theater (Vienne - Autriche)
Durée : 3 mois 3 semaines
Nombre :
Première Preview : Saturday 06 September 2008
Première : Saturday 06 September 2008
Dernière : Tuesday 30 December 2008
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Denis L. Sayers
Producteur :
Avec : Wietske van Tongeren (»Ich«), Uwe Kröger (Maxim de Winter), Susan Rigvava-Dumas (Mrs Danvers), Kerstin Ibald (Beatrice / Cover Mrs Danvers), Carsten Lepper (Jack Favell), André Bauer (Frank Crawley), Noberto Bertassi (Ben), Carin Filipčić (Mrs van Hopper), Marika Lichter (Mrs van Hopper (vom 6. September 2007 bis 30. Dezember 2007)), Marcel Meyer (Giles / Cover Frank Crawley / Ensemble), Andreas Kammerzelt (Frith / Cover Frank Crawley / Cover Oberst Julyan / Ensemble), Dennis Kozeluh (Oberst Julyan), Oliver Mülich (Robert / Ensemble), Karsten Kammeier (Frith / Swing), Kai Peterson (Horridge / Cover Jack Fawell / Cover Oberst Julyan / Ensemble), Robert D. Marx (Cover Frank Crawley / Ensemble), Jana Stelley (Clarice / Cover »Ich« / Ensemble), Thomas Bayer (Cover Oberst Julyan / Ensemble), Leigh Martha Klinger (Cover »Ich« / Ensemble), Kathleen Bauer (Cover Beatrice / Ensemble), Michaela Christl (Cover Mrs Danvers / Cover Beatrice / Ensemble), Katharina Dorian (Cover Mrs van Hopper / Ensemble), Tim Reichwein (Cover Maxim de Winter / Cover Jack Fawell / Ensemble), Claudie Reinhard (Cover Mrs van Hopper / Ensemble), Christoph Sommersguter (Cover Robert / Ensemble), Joana Fee Würz (Cover »Ich« / Ensemble), Lucius Wolter (Cover Maxim de Winter / Ensemble), Simon Eichenberger (Swing / Dance Captain), Noud Hell (Cover Ben / Swing), Tina Schöltzke (Clarice / Swing), Matthias Stockinger (Frith / Ensemble), Oliver Wejwar (Cover Robert / Ensemble), Fritz Schmid (Cover Ben / Swing), Bettina Bogdany (Ensemble), Sigrid Brandstetter (Ensemble), Nathalie Kleeberger (Ensemble), Henrik Sehnert (Ensemble), Sara Widén (Ensemble), Martina Dorothea Rumpf (Ensemble), Barbara Obermeier (Ensemble), Max Niemeyer (Ensemble), Ruth Kraus (Ensemble), Raphael Dörr (Ensemble), Katrin Mersch (Swing), Matilda Hansson (Swing), Markus Simader (Swing), Ramin Dustdar (Jack Fawell (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008)), Fernand Delosch (Giles / Cover Frank Crawley / Ensemble (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008)), Silke Braas-Wolter (Cover »Ich« / Ensemble / Dance Captain (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008)), Conny Braun (Cover Mrs van Hopper / Ensemble (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008)), Anna Veit (Cover Mrs van Hopper / Ensemble (ab Wiederaufnahme am 6. September 2008))

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Rebecca (2010-03-Operett Színház-Budapest)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Operett Színház (Budapest - Hongrie)
Durée :
Nombre :
Première Preview : Thursday 18 March 2010
Première : Friday 19 March 2010
Dernière : Sunday 21 March 2010
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Denis L. Sayers
Producteur :

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Rebecca (2011-11-Operett Színház-Budapest)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Operett Színház (Budapest - Hongrie)
Durée : 1 mois
Nombre :
Première Preview : Monday 21 November 2011
Première : Monday 21 November 2011
Dernière : Tuesday 27 December 2011
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Denis L. Sayers
Producteur :

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Rebecca (2011-12-Palladium Theater-Stuttgart)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Palladium Theater (Stuttgart - Allemagne)
Durée : 1 an 3 semaines
Nombre :
Première Preview : Thursday 08 December 2011
Première : Sunday 11 December 2011
Dernière : Sunday 06 January 2013
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Denis L. Sayers
Producteur :

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Show Boat (2006-06-Royal Albert Hall-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Royal Albert Hall (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 1 semaine
Nombre : 18 représentations
Première Preview : Saturday 10 June 2006
Première : Tuesday 13 June 2006
Dernière : Sunday 25 June 2006
Mise en scène : Francesca Zambello
Chorégraphie : Arthur Pita
Producteur :
Avec : Magnolia ... Elena Shaddow
Queenie ... Angela Simpson
Julie ... Rebecca Thornhill
Parthy Ann Hawkes ... Jenny Galloway
Captain Andy ... David Burt
Gaylord Ravenal ... John Owen-Jones
Joe ... Mark Coles
Ellie ... Emma Dodd
Frank ... Steve Elias
Sheriff Vallon/Radio Man ... Steve Deveraux
Jake ... Seann Alderking
Landlady ... Sarah Ingram
Mother Superior ... Susie Fenwick
Windy ... Hugh Futcher
Steve ... Jarrod Carland
Pete/Backwoodsman ... Gareth Snook
Commentaires : With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a cast of 71 (excluding children!) this was a massive spectacle, and the first time a fullscale musical had been presented at the Royal Albert Hall (although some operas had been performed in the past.) It was highly successful.