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Dateline: 13th November, 2009
Debbie Reynolds in the West End - and Touring Debbie Reynolds, MGM legend and star of Singing in the Rain, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and That’s Entertainment!, is celebrating more than fifty years in showbusiness by bringing her award-winning one-woman show, Debbie Reynolds Alive and Fabulous to the West End for a 10-date season at the Apollo Theatre, from Wednesday 28 April to Sunday 9 May. It will be her first London theatre performances for 34 years As a pre-West End warm-up she will tour the UK, for 15 dates, starting at Norwich Theatre Royal on Wednesday April 7 and including Liverpool, Manchester, Cardiff, Brighton, Bristol, Birmingham, Basingstoke, Leicester, Windsor, Southend, Northampton, Cambridge, Malvern and Leeds.
Debbie Reynolds Alive and Fabulous features actual MGM movie clips as she reminisces about her glittering career, her many husbands and her incredible life of song and dance. "It's a variety show," she says. "I get to do impressions of Barbra Streisand, Mae West, Katherine Hepburn - even Jimmy Stewart!"
Nominated for the Best Actress Oscar and two Golden Globes and winner of the American Comedy Award, Debbie Reynolds is an American entertaiment legend. Her film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton. Most of her film work was in MGM musicals, as perky, wholesome young women. She is one of the few actresses to have danced with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in the movies. She considers herself a "movie-oholic" and has an extensive collection of memorabilia, with over 4,000 costumes from the silent screen period to the 1970s, including Carmen Miranda's turbans, a pair of Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, John Wayne's guns and Marilyn Monroe's windswept dress from The Seven Year Itch. Nearly all the money she makes is spent toward her goal of creating a Hollywood museum. She is the mother of Star Wars’ Pricess Leiah, actress and scriptwriter, Carrie Fisher.
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