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Dateline:
15th May, 2005
Ray
Charles at the Haymarket
This summer the Theatre Royal Haymarket will be home to a new musical,
The Genius of Ray Charles. Performed by a cast of 32 American
singers, dancers and musicians, the show, which premiered last Month
in Nevada, will run in the West End for eight weeks. It opens on 21st
June (previews from 16th) and runs until 13th August.
The Genius of Ray Charles will fill the space left by the forthcoming
closure (on 21st May) of Acorn
Antiques before A Few Good Men, written by Aaron Sorkin
and starring Rob Lowe, gets underway on 18th August.
Johansson for The
Sound of Music?
According to Variety, Andrew Lloyd Webber's first choice for Maria in
his forthcoming stage version of The Sound of Music is film star
Scarlett Johansson. The star of films such as Lost In Translation,
Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Horse Whisperer is not
known as a stage actress and it had been widely expected that Lloyd
Webber would go for someone of the experience of Maria Friedman for
the part.
The show, which Variety predicts will be a co-production between RUG
and Clear Channel, is expected in the West End next year.
£25 Off at the
Coliseum
Thanks to a £3m sponsorship deal with Sky and Artsworld, English
National Opera will be making 12,000 seats throughout the 2005-6 season
available for £20 (£25 off normal price) for selected performances
of all the operas in the season. “The Sky Seats offer some of the
best seats in the house at affordable prices which I hope will attract
newcomers to ENO and the London Coliseum,” said Seán Doran,
ENO's artistic director and chief executive.
The special prices start with EBO's production of Così Fan
Tutte, which opens on 2nd June and will include tickets for Billy
Budd (Benjamin Britten) and Anthony Minghella’s new production
of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly.
The forthcoming 2005/2006 Sky & Artsworld Season - covering over
400 years of opera - includes eight new productions. Celebrating English
opera at the core, Benjamin Britten becomes ENO's house composer with
Billy Budd launching a cycle of one Britten opera production
each Season. Vaughan-Williams' Sir John In Love - directed by
Ian Judge - and Purcell's King Arthur - directed by choreographer
Mark Morris - underline ENO's commitment to English opera.
And Then There Was
Another One
Another play based on an Agatha Christie novel is to reach the West
End stage next year. And Then There Were None, a new version
of Ten Little Indians, written by Kevin Elyot and directed by
Steven Pimlott, will premiere at an as yet unnamed theatre in October.
Elyot bases his version upon the original novel rather than the 1943
play which was scripted by Christie herself.
Dancing in Earlham
Street
Forty years after The Supremes, Stevie Wonder and Martha and the Vandellas
hit England for the first times in The Tamla Motown Revue, they
are back in the West End in Dancing in the Streets at the Cambnridge
Theatre in Earlham Street. Directed by Ivor Novello Award winner Keith
Strachan, is presented by Paul Walden & Derek Nicol for Flying Music,
the prolific team behind The Rat Pack - Live from Las Vegas,
it opens on 19th July (previews from 7th) and is initially booking to
24th September.
The show, which has been on a major national tour, includes some of
the greatest Mowtown hits, such as I Heard It Through The Grape Vine,
Baby Love, My Girl, Dancing in the Streets, I'll
Be There, My Guy, Reach Out, Stop In the Name of
Love and Tears of a Clown.
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