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Dateline:
13th February, 2004
West
to Star and Direct at Chichester
Samuel West is to direct one play and appear in two others this summer
at Chichester. He will direct Helen Cooper's Three Women and a Piano
Tuner and star in The Master and Margarita and Doctor
Faustus.
Law to Front Young
Vic Campaign
Jude Law is to be the public face to the Young Vic's campaign to raise
£2.5m for its much needed refurbishment. £5m has already
been raised and the same amount is expected to come from the National
Lottery, leaving the £2.5m which is the aim of the current appeal
to be raised.
Young Vic director David Lan admitted that it will be impossible for
the theatre to continue to operate in its current state. In fact, he
said, it is finding it impossible to comply with incoming health and
safety regulations.
Syal Joins Bombay
Dreams
Actress and writer Meera Syal is to join the casr of Bombay Dreams
for one week from 16th March. Syal is the writer of the musical.
Round Dance
at the Roundhouse
The undercroft of London's Roundhouse is to be the setting for a new
production of Arthur Schitzler’s The Round Dance, the play
which inspired the film La Ronde and David Hare's The Blue
Room. Running from 17th February to 12th Match, it is produced by
Angels In The Architecture and Full Circle. The venue is to be refurbished
after the production closes.
Wimbledon Re-opens
The Wimbledon Theatre, now renamed as the New Wimbledon Theatre, re-opened
this week (11th February) under the control of the Ambassador Theatre
Group (ATG), with Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!.
The theatre will continue as a receiving house, as it was when run
by the Wimbledon Theatre Trust, and in its programme for the coming
months will feature, among others, The Play What I Wrote, Blood
Brothers, Crazy for You, Saturday Night Fever, Tell
Me on a Sunday, Grease, Full Circle, The Full Monty,
Taboo, Carousel, All the Best Books (Abridged)
and Cats.
Dobson to Replace Lipman
in Millie
Anita Dobson is to replace Maureen Lipman in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
She starts a six-month run in the musical on 1st March, while Lipman's
final performance will be on 28th February.
Extending
- Thoroughly Modern Millie extends to 15th January, 2005.
- Anything Goes now booking to 28th August (2004)
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