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Dateline:
3rd October, 2004
Woman in White
Box Office "Strong"
After good reviews in the weekend papers and in spite of less than enthusiastic
reviews from most of the dailies (and the BTG!), the box office takings
for Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White doubled their daily
average. Advance booking is now doing well and, according to "Variety",
the show could reach break-even in less than a year with 70% houses.
To date houses have been 90-95%.
Plenty of Problems,
but Bat Boy Will Go On
Bat Boy the Musical (Shaftesbury) has extended its booking period
to 14th February: it had been booking to 30th October. This is in spite
of lukewarm reviews, poor houses and the withdrawal of Robert Mackintosh
and Martin Yates of West End International Ltd, the major UK backers.
Talking to Whatsonstage, the US producer Michael Alden attacked the
critics who, he said, are "devoid of journalistic responsibility"
and seemed to be in competition as to who could come up with the funniest
line. “I’ve had a lot of stinkers in my life,” he said.
“Bat Boy isn’t one. This is a lovely worthwhile show
and I’m going to support it. It deserves a place here.”
He believes that word-of-mouth - for, he says, the audiences are "delighting"
in the show - will have a major effect and that the show will run for
a very long time.
Chicago
Charity Gala Performance
7th October will see a special gala performance of Chicago in
aid of Breakthrough, the breast cancer charity. Tickets are £15
to £40 and a minimum of 105 of the price of each ticket sold will
go to Breakthrough.
VIP tickets, which include the best seats in the house, a souvenir
brochure, drinks at the interval and a special after-show meet-the-cast
party, are available to £75 and all the proceeds from these tickets
will go to the charity. VIP tickets can be booked by phoning 020 7025
2426.
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| Eve
Ensler |
Redgrave to Perform
Ensler's Necessary Targets
Venessa Redgrave is to join Susannah Wise, Paula Wilcox, Caroline John,
Stella Maris, Zoe Waites and Hattie Morahan in a rehearsed reading of
Eve Ensler's Necssary Targets, a play which tells the story of
two American women, a psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go
to Bosnia to help women face up to their memories of war. The reading
will be directed by Anna Cartaret.
The play was written before Ensler's hit The Vagina Monologues
and has been performed in New York by Meryl Streep, Angelica Huston
and Calista Flockhart, in Sarajevo by a cast which included Glenn Close
and Marisa Tomei, and, in June of thsi year, in Washington as part of
the Potomac Theatre Festival.
The reading will be at the West End's Arts Theatre on Sunday 10th October
and all proceeds will go to the International Committee for Artists’
Freedom.
Bombshells
to Close Early
Bombshells (Arts Theatre), written by Joanna Murray-Smith and
performed by Caroline O'Connor, is to close on 16th October. The Fringe
First-winning production had been booking to 30th October.
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