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Dateline:
11th May, 2003
The Greatest Film
Star?
Visitors to the Channel 4 website have been asked to vote for
the person they consider to be the greatest film star, and the result?
Al Pacino! The list from which the visitors voted was compiled by a
panel of film-makers and critics. The top ten were:
1. Al Pacino; 2. Robert De Niro; 3. Tom Hanks; 4. Kevin Spacey; 5.
Harrison Ford;
6. Jack Nicholson; 7. Anthony Hopkins; 8. Sean Connery; 9. Ewan McGregor;
10. Cary Grant
Three Sisters
News
Kristin Scott Thomas and Douglas Hodge are to leave Michael Blakemore's
production of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Playhouse. They
will be replaced on 20th May by Susannah Harker and Stephen Ballantyne,
it was announced last week. The production is currently booking until
29th June.
Also announced last week is the casting for the National Theatre's
production of the same play, which is due to open in August. Heading
the cast in Katie Mitchell's production will be Eve Best, Anna Maxwell
Martin and Lucy Whybrow.
New Ayckbourn Tour
A revival of Alan Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves began
a national tour last week when it opened at the Theatre Royal, Windsor.
Starring John Challis and Sue Holderness (Boycie and Marlene from Only
Fools and Horses), the production will tour to Bromley, Newcastle,
Norwich, Richmond, Glasgow, Woking, Northampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Southend,
Plymouth, Ipswich, Malvern, Belfast and Leeds.
Lyric Starts £2.6m
Improvements
Work has begun on improvements costing £2.6m at the Lyric Hammersmith.
The work will include a new glass-fronted entrance, rehearsal room,
education facility, café and bar. Although funding is in place
for most of the work, £750,000 still needs to be found and the
theatre is embarking ona fund-raising campaign. The work is due to be
compleed by the end of the year.
Roger Moore Fitted
with Pacemaker
Roger Moore has been fitted with a pacemaker after he collapsed onstage
during a performance of The Play What I Wrote on Broadway. The
75 year old actor fainted onstage, experiencing breathing difficulties
during a song and dance routine, and was taken to hospital. When he
left hospital he was described as "feeling very well, but a little
fragile."
Mukhamedov Joins Cooper
in Musical
Former Bolshoi and Royal ballet principal dancer Irek Mukhamedov is
to join Adam Cooper and his wife Sarah Wildor in Rodgers and Hart's
On Your Toes at the Royal Festival Hall. The show opens on 7th
August (previews from 4th) and is currently booking to 6th September.
Rocky Horror Return
Cult classic The Rocky Horror Show returns to London on 23rd
June when it is to play a two week season at the Queen's.
Extensions and Closures
- Tell Me On a Sunday, starring Denise Van Outen (Gielgud),
has reduced its booking period by one week to 26th July, which suggests
that it is probably to close then.
- Strindberg's Dance of Death, starring Ian McKellen (Lyric,
Shaftesbury Avenue), has extended by one week to 7th June, after which
it will definitely close.
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