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Dateline: 7th September, 2003 News from the Midlands Record-breaking Saigon's goneCameron Mackintosh's production of Miss Saigon has finished its run at the Birmingham Hippodrome - and it's become the biggest-selling show in the theatre's history. During its 16-week run, 200,000 people paid more than £5m to see the show at the theatre which was rebuilt after a major Lottery award. Hippodrome director Stuart Griffiths said: "The new Hippodrome is one of only six venues in the UK that have the facilities to stage this award-winning production. We're delighted that it's proved such a success with Midlands audiences." Cameron Mackintosh Ltd managing director Nick Allott added: "Birmingham Hippodrome has always been a cornerstone of our tours of major musicals. "Miss Saigon is the last of the eighties' mega-musicals to visit Birmingham and we're thrilled that once again both the city and theatre have risen to welcome us and to make the season such a huge success." Guy masters the Arena - twice Celebrating Dylan Thomas's 50th anniversary, Guy Masterson will be at Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre twice next month. He takes his Under Milk Wood in which he plays all 69 parts to the Arena on October 1st, then returns with Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas on the 31st. The Arena's autumn season contains two Shakespeare classics, with newly formed theatre company 3hird Wheel presenting Macbeth on September 29th and 30th and Third Party Productions performing Richard III on November 12th and 13th. Other highlights include Olivier award-winning writer and director John Retallack's thought-provoking play Hannah and Hanna (October 10th) which was well received in Edinburgh in 2001; Trading Faces' first visit to Wolverhampton to stage Creaking Shadows, based on the chilling work of Edgar Allan Poe (October 17th); and the return of Graeae, one of Britain's leading disability theatre companies, with their darkly comic show peeling on October 14th and 15th. Further details from www.arena.wlv.ac.uk Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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