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Big (2019-09-Dominion Theatre-London)

Type de série: Original London
Théâtre: Dominion Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 1 mois 2 semaines
Nombre :
Première Preview : Tuesday 10 September 2019
Première : Tuesday 17 September 2019
Dernière : Saturday 02 November 2019
Mise en scène : Morgan Young •
Chorégraphie : Morgan Young •
Producteur :
Avec : Jay McGuiness, Wendi Peters, Kimberley Walsh, Matthew Kelly, Lori Haley Fox, Edward Handoll, Harrison Dadswell, Jamie O’Connor, Jake Simon, Jobe Hart, Austen Phelan, Theo Wilkinson, Charlie Bull, Colin Burnicle, Christie-Lee Crosson, Vicki Davids, Alex Fobbester, Leanne Garretty, Stuart Hickey, Matt Holland, Tash Holway, Ross McLaren, Richard Murphy, Eddie Myles, Katharine Pearson, Anton Fosh, Gemma Fuller, Gary Murphy, Katy Osborne, Olufemi Alaka, Coco Cousin-Brown, Asher Ezeguiel, Ellis Griffiths, Imogen Law Hing Choy, Noah Leggott, Amaya Lucas, Cassia McCarthy, Ophelia Parsons, Bailey Razdan, Lucinda Wicks and Chanel Zinyemba.
Commentaires : Big the Musical was - in a pre-Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark and King Kong - one of the costliest Broadway flop musicals ever staged at the time of its 1996 premiere, losing the entirety of its $10.3m investment when it shut after just six months, after failing to be nominated for that year's Tony Award for best musical.

Even though it had a British director - the late, great Mike Ockrent (whose hits included Me and My Girl and Crazy for You on both sides of the Atlantic), working with the choreographic genius that is Susan Stroman (by then, also his wife) - at the helm, it never transferred to the UK; but twenty years later a new production started kicking around the regions, newly directed and choreographed by Morgan Young, receiving its British premiere at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in 2016 before a season in Dublin.

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Elf: The Musical (2015-11-Dominion Theatre-London)

Type de série: Original London
Théâtre: Dominion Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 1 mois 4 semaines
Nombre :
Première Preview : Saturday 24 October 2015
Première : Thursday 05 November 2015
Dernière : Saturday 02 January 2016
Mise en scène : Morgan Young •
Chorégraphie : Morgan Young •
Producteur :
Avec : Ben Forster (Buddy), Kimberley Walsh (Jovie), Joe McGann (Walter), Jessica Martin (Emily), Jennie Dale (Deb), Mark McKerracher (Santa) and Graham Lappin (Store Manager), Katie Bradley, Charlie Bull, Nicola Coates, Alex Fobbester, Anton Fosh, Charlotte Gale, Francis Haugen, Matt Holland, Tash Holway, Paul Hutton, Mark Iles, Ceili O’Connor, Debbie Paul, Joanna Rennie, Barnaby Thompson and Ed White. Harry Collett, Ilan Galkoff, Noah Key and Ewan Rutherford will alternate the role of Michael
Presse : "Don't come all ye faithful... this show doesn’t so much invoke the festive spirit as market it." Michael Billington for The Guardian

"For all its commercial, even cynical sheen, then, the show taps the essential spirit of Christmas – our need to connect with our families, and our inner kid." Dominic Cavendish for The Telegraph

"Elf left this Grinch-inclined critic with expectations pleasantly confounded, and full of seasonal good cheer." Fiona Mountford for The Evening Standard

"Efficient, slick, even cynical: Elf is all these. I suppose it will be a success, but it left me a little cold." Quentin Letts for The Daily Mail

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White Christmas (2014-11-Dominion Theatre-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Dominion Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 1 mois 3 semaines
Nombre :
Première Preview : Saturday 08 November 2014
Première : Wednesday 12 November 2014
Dernière : Saturday 03 January 2015
Mise en scène : Morgan Young •
Chorégraphie : Randy Skinner •
Producteur :
Avec : ) Aled Jones (Bob Wallace), Tom Chambers (Phil Davis), Wendi Peters (Martha), Graham Cole (General Waverley), Rachel Stanley (Betty Haynes), Louise Bowden (Judy Haynes), Lori Haley Fox, Michelle Bishop, Phil Cole, Brendan Cull, Jonathan Halliwell, Vikki-Marie Ryan, Lucinda Lawrence, Karen Aspinall, Emma Caffrey, Hayley Reed, Helen Patching, Vicki Davids, Jennifer Davison, Grace Holdstock, Ross McLaren, Joshua Lay, Matt Cheney, Jonny Labey, Anthony Whiteman, Eddie Myles, Stuart Winter, Matt Clark and Gary Murphy. Amy Snudden, Emily Robins, Sophia Pettet and Tatum Confrey will alternate the role of Susan
Presse : "I’m afraid that overall this dramatically flaky, commercially canny affair left me cold." Dominic Cavendish for The Telegraph

"You may feel that you've endured an entire lifetime of Christmases, white and otherwise, by the end of this amiable, lavish, dynamically danced, but dramatically insipid and ersatz-seeming stage-musical version of the famous 1954 movie." Paul Taylor for The Independent

"It liberally sprinkles snowflakes and cosiness and throws in an explosion of song and high-energy hoofing. The stage is so awash with syrupy sentiment that you fear somebody might slip and take a tumble." Lyn Gardner for The Guardian

"The songs — Sisters, Blue Skies and so on — are a perpetual delight, even if the narrative momentum gets stranded offstage for too-lengthy periods while the boys’ show is rehearsed. Ultimately and somewhat disappointingly, though, White Christmas left me with lukewarm cockles and a half-melted heart." Fiona Mountford for the Evening Standard