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Dateline:
2nd October, 2005
Hall's Shaw Revival
for West End
Sir Peter Hall's revival of George Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell,
starring Edward Fox, Diana Quick, Ken Bones and Rebecca Callard, will
open at London's Garrick Theatre on 7th November (previews from 25th
October). It is booking until 11th March, 2006.
The production ran at the Theatre Royal, Bath, from 10th August to
3rd September, prior to an eight week tour, which is still continuing.
Cirque du Soleil Returns
January sees the return, for the tenth time, of Canadian circus company
Cirque du Soleil to the Royal Albert Hall, where it will present its
new show Alegría from 5th to 29th January. The show has
a cast of 56 musicians and performers, including acrobats and aerialists.
Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the
show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many.
Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient
monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against
this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives.
Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make
up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist
the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.
Hair
Extension
While every other theatre publication tries not to use the obvious headline,
the BTG succumbs to the temptation offered by the fact that the Gate's
production of Hair has
extended its booking period by three weeks to 29th October.
Irving Returns to Covent
Garden
Sir Henry Irving will be back onstage in Covent Garden later this month.
Not the actual man himself, of course, for he died in 1905, but he is
the central character of a play, The Trial Of Sir Henry Irving (Lately
Deceased), by Andrew Shepherd, presented by ACS Random Productions
at the Courtyard Theatre in the Theatre Museum.
The production, which coincides with a Theatre Museum exhibition of
photographs and scripts commemorating the centenary of his death, runs
from 13th October (previews from 11th) and runs until 30th. The exhibition
opens on 11th and runs until 28th Februatry, 2006.
The Rivals
on Tour
Bath Theatre Royal is to tour a new production of Sheridan's The
Rivals, starring Stephanie Cole (Mrs Malaprop) and George Baker
(Sir Anthony Absolute) . Directed by Christopher Morahan, it opens in
Bath on 4th October and goes on to Glasgow, Brighton, Malvern, Cambridge,
Guildford and Richmond. Further dates for 2006 are to be announced later.
There will be a gala performance on Wednesday 12th October, celebrating
the theatre's 200th birthday. Tickets (£75) include a top price
seat for the play, a champagne reception, a copy of the new book about
the theatre and the showing of a specially commissioned film about the
theatre. The evening will be hosted by Ned Sherrin and only 200 tickets
are avilable.
Zellweger to Play Beatrix Potter
Renée Zellweger is to play Beatrix Potter, author of the Peter
Rabbit series of books, expert on Herdwick sheep and benefactor
of the National Trust in a new biopic, written by Richard Maltby Jr
and directed by Chris Noonan (Babe). According to Variety, Ewan
McGregor is in talks to play Fredrick Warne, Potter's publisher and
fiancé who died before they could get married.
Elton John's Vampire Musical
Lestat, a new musical based on Anne Rice's vampire character,
opens in San Francisco on 17th December where it runs until 29th January,
before moving to New York where it opens at Broadway's Palace Theatre
on 13th April. It has music by Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin and
book by Linda Woolverton, who wrote the book for Disney's Beauty
and the Beast.
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