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Babes in Arms (1988-08-Open Air Theatre Regent's Park-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park (Londres - Angleterre)
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Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Wednesday 03 August 1988
Dernière : Inconnu
Mise en scène : Ian Talbot •
Chorégraphie : Kenn Oldfield •
Producteur :
Avec : Jessica Martin (Bunny), Aiden Waters (Gus Field), Damien Thomas (Steve Edwards) , Jane Arden (Terry Thompson), Bryony Glassco (Jennifer Owen), David Henry (Seymour Fleming), Damien Thomas (Steve Edwards), Deborah McCulloch (Susie Ward), Paul Reeves {Valentine White), Adam Price (Don), Sheila Allen (Phyllis Owen)
Commentaires : Originally produced in New York April 1937 it was a show with a large cast of teenagers, no stars and modest scenery. It also offered a larger collection of Rodgers & Hart hit songs than any other of their shows. It was a very profitable hit in the USA. However, it waited over 40 years before this, its British premiere. The book was re-written by George Oppenheimer, changing most of the character names and re-arranging the order of some of the scenes. A number of performers whose names were announced in the pre-publicity never actually appeared - though no reason was ever given - and the production itself was roundly condemned for its “stunning awfulness and inanity”. The cast fared no better, described as “universally unable to sing, dance, act or even move on stage with any semblance of adequacy.”

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Beautiful Dreamer (1982-04-Greenwich Theatre-London)

Type de série: Original
Théâtre: Greenwich Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
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Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Thursday 22 April 1982
Dernière : Inconnu
Mise en scène : Roger Haines •
Chorégraphie : Kenn Oldfield •
Producteur :
Avec : Simon Green (Stephen Foster), Christina Matthews, Dorothy Vernon, Ian Burford, Paul Bentley, Harry Dickman
Commentaires : This originated at the Haymarket, Leicester.

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Boys from Syracuse (The) (1991-07-Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 1 mois 1 semaine
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Première Preview : Monday 22 July 1991
Première : Wednesday 24 July 1991
Dernière : Thursday 05 September 1991
Mise en scène : Judi Dench •
Chorégraphie : Kenn Oldfield •
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Avec : Cast: Peter Woodward (Antipholus of Syracuse), Jenny Galloway (Luce), Louise Gold (Adriana), Gillian Bevan (Luciana), Richard O’Callaghan (Dromio of Syracuse), Gavin Muir (Dromio of Ephesus), Bill Homewood (Antipholus o f Ephesus)
Commentaires : Autumn the production went on tour, including playing The Forum Theatre Billingham Cleveland around 17 September 1991, and Theatre Royal Brighton from 14 to 19 October 1991.
Presse : "After the second rude interruption, Louise Gold, as Adriana declared it was a lovely day. Huddled under our macs and brollies, we believed her. And when the gleefully statuesque, not-so-pure Gold ripped into the splendid trio of "Sing For Your Supper," we would have believed anything." Michael Coveney - The Observer, 28 July '91
"The adaptation softens the character of Adriana - Louise Gold plays her delightfully, as a woman whose sexual potential is being far from fully tapped. There's an aura of surplus desire about her that is both comic and wistful. It's characteristic that at the end - Gold doesn't freak out but coos like a rampant dove." Paul Taylor - Independent, 26 July '91
"Falling In Love With Love", sung with exquisite sweetness by Louise Gold, a monument to precariously-controlled wifely patience…. But it is "Sing For Your Supper", trilled in harmony by Miss Gold, Gillian Bevan and Jenny Galloway, which stops the show. Do go." Jack Tinker - The Daily Mail, 25th July '91

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Can-Can (1988-10-Strand Theatre-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Novello Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 2 mois 3 semaines
Nombre : 102 représentations
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Wednesday 26 October 1988
Dernière : Saturday 21 January 1989
Mise en scène : Abe Burrows • David Taylor •
Chorégraphie : Kenn Oldfield •
Producteur :
Avec : Donna McKechnie (La Mome Pistache), Milo O’Shea (Paul) , Bernard Alane (Aristide Forestiere), Jean-Michel Dadory (Boris), Janie Dee (Claudine)
Commentaires : This was a newly scripted version by Julian More, incorporating additional songs written for other Cole Porter shows. However, in the words of Sheridan Morley “instead of an appallingly inadequate book by Abe Burrows we merely get a very disappointing one by Julian More”.

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Fantasticks (The) (1990-07-Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park (Londres - Angleterre)
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Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Tuesday 24 July 1990
Dernière : Inconnu
Mise en scène : Ian Talbot •
Chorégraphie : Kenn Oldfield •
Producteur :
Avec : Erick Ray Evans {El Gallo), Emma Amos (Luisa), Anthony Barclay (Matt), Anthony O’Donnell (Bellamy), Roy Hudd (Hucklebee), Basil Hoskins (Henry), Mark Addy (Mortimer), Jonathan Markwood & Rachel Pittmann (The Mutes)

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Lady be good (1992-07-Open Air Theatre Regent's Park-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 1 mois 1 semaine
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Première Preview : Wednesday 29 July 1992
Première : Wednesday 29 July 1992
Dernière : Wednesday 09 September 1992
Mise en scène : Ian Talbot •
Chorégraphie : Kenn Oldfield •
Producteur :
Avec : Simon Green (Dick Trevor), Joanna Riding (Suzie Trevor), Jane Maud (Josephine Vanderwater), Bernard Cribbins (J. Watterson Watkins), Antony Howes (Jeff), Zubin Varla (Jack Robinson), Gavin Muir (Bertie Bassett)

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Mr Cinders (1982-12-King's Head Theatre-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: King's Head Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 2 mois 3 semaines
Nombre : 60 représentations
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Friday 31 December 1982
Dernière : Saturday 26 March 1983
Mise en scène : Tony Craven •
Chorégraphie : Kenn Oldfield •
Producteur :
Avec : Denis Lawson (Jim Lancaster), Christina Matthews (Jill Kemp), Philip Bird (Guy Lancaster), Graham Hoadley (Lumley Lancaster), Oliver Pierre (Henry Kemp), Angela Vale (Lady Lancaster), Derek Smee (Sir George Lancaster)
Commentaires : The original London production was at the Adelphi in February 1929, and played 529 performances (including a transfer to the Hippodrome). This was its first revival. Later in the run the leading role was taken over by skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan.

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Mr Cinders (1983-04-Fortune Theatre-London)

Type de série: West End Transfer
Théâtre: Fortune Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 1 an 2 mois 3 semaines
Nombre : 527 représentations
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Wednesday 27 April 1983
Dernière : Sunday 22 July 1984
Mise en scène : Tony Craven •
Chorégraphie : Kenn Oldfield •
Producteur :
Avec : Denis Lawson (Jim Lancaster), Christina Matthews (Jill Kemp), Philip Bird (Guy Lancaster), Graham Hoadley (Lumley Lancaster), Oliver Pierre (Henry Kemp), Angela Vale (Lady Lancaster), Derek Smee (Sir George Lancaster)
Commentaires : The original London production was at the Adelphi in February 1929, and played 529 performances (including a transfer to the Hippodrome). This was its first revival. Later in the run the leading role was taken over by skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan.

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Stop the world - I want to get off (1989-10-Lyric Theatre-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Lyric Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 1 mois 1 semaine
Nombre : 56 représentations
Première Preview : Inconnu
Première : Thursday 19 October 1989
Dernière : Saturday 25 November 1989
Mise en scène : Anthony Newley •
Chorégraphie : Kenn Oldfield •
Producteur :
Avec : Anthony Newley (Littlechap), Rhonda Burchmore (Evie Littlechap) Fiona Alexander, Dollie Henry, Julia Howson, Samantha Hughes, Kim Ismay, Victoria Lynson, Emma Priest, Wendy Schoeman, Martine McCutcheon, Denise Outen, Chase Marks.
Commentaires : This revival was not a success, running just five weeks, and said to have lost over £500,000.