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Dateline: 7th November, 2004 Bogdanov to Direct New Musical for Cardiff Festival Michael Bogdanov is to direct, and his Wales Theatre Company is to produce, a new musical (music and lyrics by by Mal Pope, book by Frank Vickery) for the International Festival of Music Theatre in Cardiff next year. The show tells the story of Evan Roberts, a 26 year ex miner who claimed to have been commissioned personally by the Almighty to lead a world wide Religious Revival. From the start controversy dogged him as he travelled the UK accompanied by his band of teenage female disciples. Over an 18 month period his message turned the UK upside down but at the end of that time, broken and exhausted, he left public life never to appear again in public. The story is told by W T Stead, a real life investigative journalist who travelled to Wales to experience the Revival first hand. Stead was least seen alive sitting in the smoking room of the Titanic. That's where the story starts. The show will feature a number of Welsh born West End stars and opens in the Swansea Grand Theatre on 25th March, 2005, before moving to Cardiff for the international festival and then continuing on a tour of the UK.
Mal Pope has had a long and varied career in the popular music world: a protégé of Elton John and enthusiastically promoted by John Peel at the age of twelve, he has toured with Art Garfunkle and Belinda Carlisle, performed with (among others) Cliff Richard, Elton John, The Bee Gees, Elkie Brooles, Mica Paris and Labi Sifri, and written sons which were covered by Cliff Richard, The Hollies, After The Fire and Phil & John . Frank Vickery is a well-known Welsh playwright. Among his best known plays are Spanish Lies, Erogenous Zones and A Night on the Tiles.
Michael Bogdanov, who formed and directs the Wales Theatre Company, is one of Britain's most distinguished directors, who has directed for the RSC, the National Theatr, the Old Vic, the AbbeyTheatre in Dublin, Teatro La Scala, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and the Royal National Theatre of Denmark. In 1986 he and Michael Pennington founded the English Shakespeare Company. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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