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Dateline:
27th June, 2004
Grandage to Leave Sheffield
Michael Grandage has announced that he is stepping down as associate
director with special responsibility for programming of Sheffield Theatres
from June of next year.
“This new season marks my fifth year of programming at Sheffield
Theatres," he said in a statement. "I believe now is the time
to hand over to an artistic leader who can look to the future with confidence
and take the theatre to the next exciting stage of its development.
I have had the most rewarding period of my life in Sheffield. I owe
a debt of gratitude to the staff of Sheffield Theatres and most particularly
to our loyal audience who have helped us develop our work to an astounding
place over these last few years.”
Recruitment for his replacement is expected to begin next week, with
an announcement to be made before the end of the year. Grandage is,
of course, also the artistic director of The Donmar Warehouse, a post
he has held since 2002.
Beautiful Closure:
Shining Extension
The Beautiful and the Damned - the so-called Scott Fitzgerald
musical - is to close at the end of its current booking period (14th
August) after a three-month run. Starring Michael Praed and Helen Anker
as Scott and Zelda, the musical opened at the Lyric on 10th May to generally
poor reviews. However at the Royal Court, Conor McPherson's latest play
Shining City has extended its run by three weeks and will now
close on 7th August.
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Nicholas Joins Jekyll
Tour
Paul Nicholas is to star in the touring production of Jekyll and
Hyde, which opens at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, on 30th August
(previews from 24th), after which it will move on to Dartford, Sheffield,
Glasgow, Wimbledon, Hull, Manchester, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Birmingham,
High Wycombe, Woking, Milton Keynes, Blackpool, Belfast, Stoke, Darlington,
Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Southend, Bradford, Southampton, Swansea,
Bromley, Bristol, Sunderland and Brighton, with further dates to be
announced later. The tour will finish at the end of May 2005, after
which it is expected to move into the West End.
West Indian Playboy
at the Tricycle
Mustapha Matura's Playboy of the West Indies, which is based
on J M Synge's Playboy of the Western World and sets the play
in a village in Trinidad, is to return to the Tricycle Theatre where
it received its world premiere in 1984. It runs at the Kilburn venue
from 2nd December, 2004, to 22nd January, 2005.
Synge's original play premiered in Dublin in 1907.
Boogie-ing On and On
The sequel to Boogie Nights - imaginatively entitled Boogie
Nights 2 - is to tour later this year. Updated to the eighties and
starring David Essex, Mark Jones, Stephanie Lawrence and Scott Robinson
from pop band 5ive, it opens at the Churchill, Bromley, on 23rd August
and will then go on to Northampton, Oxford, Manchester, Stoke, Southend,
Wolverhampton, Norwich, Dartford, Liverpool and Eastbourne.
Meanwhile the original Boogie Nights, set in the seventies,
will play the summer season at the Blackpool Grand from 13th July to
30th October and will feature another seventies star, Jimmy Osmond.
Brighton Rock
Casting
The Almeida has announced the lead actor for its forthcoming musical
version of Graham Greenes's Brighton Rock. Anti-hero Pinkie will
be played by Michael Jibson, who went straight from Drama School in
the West End Madness back-catalogue musical Our House for which
he received two Best Actor in a Musical nominations.
With the book by Giles Havergal, lyrics by Don Black and music by John
Barry, the production, which is directed by Michael Attenborough and
designed by Lez Brotherston, opens on 5th October (previews from 20th
September ) and runs to 13th November, after which it is expected to
transfer to the West End.
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