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Dateline: 3rd February, 2006
Simba Makes Way for Sir Henry - for One Night Only Later this month The Lion King will be moving out of the West End's Lyceum Theatre to make way for Sir Henry Irving. To mark the centenary of Irving's death in 2005, Bacchae Productions is to revive the play which made him an overnight sensation in the theatre in which is happened. Leopold Lewis' melodrama The Bells made Irving a star when he first performed it in 1871 and it will be performed in a rehearsed reading on Monday 13th February, with Steven Berkoff in Irving's role (Matthias, the man with a terrible secret) and a supporting cast consisting of Daniela Denby-Ashe, Cherie Lunghi, Matthew Kelly, Derren Nesbitt, Ian Lavender, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Ron Moody. The production will be directed and narrated by Roy Marsden and the evening will be introduced by Simon Callow. Irving was the first actor to be knighted, so appropriately the festivities will kick off with a modern theatrical knight, Sir Ian McKellen, unveiling a plaque commemorating Irving and his acting manager, Bram Stoker, who wrote Dracula during his time at the theatre. It will be a fund raising event for TheatreCares, the UK Theatres' response to HIV and AIDS facilitated by Crusaid, and tickets, available from the box office on 0870 534 4444, will be £10 - £20. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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