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Dateline:
17th August, 2003
1985 McNally Play to
Get UK Premiere
Terrence McNally's 1885 play The Lisbon Traviata will receive
its UK premiere at the King's Head from 17th November (previews from
11th) to 21st December. It will be directed by Stephen Henry who, in
1999, directed the European premiere of McNally's controversial Corpus
Christi.
Bombay Dreams
in the Black
According to the US journal Variety, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-produced
musical Bombay Dreams has returned the whole of its investment
at the beginning of its fourteenth month at the Apollo Victoria.
Meanwhile Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has celebrated
its 7,000th West End performance at Her Majesty's.
McDonagh x 3
Martin McDonagh's latest play, the black comedy The Pillowman,
is to premiere at the National Theatre on 13th November (previews from
7th), with Jim Broadbent playing the lead. Meanwhile two other McDonagh
successes are to tour: The Lieutenant of Inishmore opens at Cardiff's
New Theatre on 2nd September and then goes on to Bath, Bromley, Westcliff-on-Sea,
Dublin, Canterbury, Glasgow, Richmond, Milton Keynes and Salford, and
Not the National Theatre is to revive The Beauty Queen of Leenane
at the Bloomsbury Theatre from 3rd to 6th September, after which it
begins a regional tour of, mainly, one-night stands.
Hackney Redevelopment
to be Completed
The refurbishment of the Hackney Empire, which was brought to a grinding
halt last month when the contractors went into liquidation, has restarted.
Arts Council England has given the go-ahead for new contractors to take
over and the work has begun. A spokesperson for the theatre said it
is hoped that the work will still be completed by January.
Hutton Onstage at the
Tricycle
Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre is to produce a dramatisation of the Hutton
Inquiry into the case of the suicide of Dr David Kelly which will run
at the north London venue from 4th November to 6th December. The transcripts
will be edited by Richard Norton-Taylor, a journalist covering the inquiry,
and the piece, called Justifying War, will be directed by Nicholas
Kent, the Tricycle's artistic director .
The Tricycle's previous work in this genre includes the very successful
recontsruction of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, The Colour of
Justice.
The Twits Are to Tour
A new stage version, from the Coventry Belgrade, of Roald Dahl's children's
story The Twits is to tour thsi autumn. Starting at the Palace,
Manchester, on 30th September, it will visit five towns before settling
at London's Bloomsbury Theatre for a season over Christmas, from 9th
December to 13th January.
Quilley Leaves Anything
Goes
Dennis Quilley has left the cast of the RNT production of Gershwin's
Anything Goes, which is transferring to the Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane, opening on 7th October (previews from 26th September). His leaving
is due to illness and he may rejoin the cast later.
The Undead Dies
Dragula, the camp musical which had its (delayed) press night
on 1st August at the Heaven nightclub in the West End, has closed. The
producers blame the heatwave but what reviews there were were uniformly
dreadful.
Vincent
to Close Early
Vincent in Brixton (Playhouse Theatre) is to close one week early,
on 23rd August.
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