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Dateline: 19th January, 2011

Lost Musicals 2010

The 21st season of Lost Musicals, neglected Broadway shows, organised by Ian Marshall Fisher, has been announced.

The three shows for 2011 are:

The Band Wagon
Written in 1931 by Arthur Schwartz (music), Howard Dietz (lyrics and book) and George S Kaufman (book) as a revue for siblings Fred and Adele Astaire.
Weekends only from 27 March to 17 April 2011).
The score includes “Dancing In The Dark”, “I Love Louisa”, and “High And Low”. MGM used a few of the songs in a film, with the same title, but the sketches have not been seen since the original run.

Coco
Music by André Previn and book by Alan Jay Lerner (1969)
Weekends only from 15 May to 12 June
Written as a vehicle for Katherine Hepburn and Coco Chanel.

Mexican Hayride
Music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields
Sundays only from 5 June to 7 Augus)
Written in 1944, it has not been revived since its original production.

All the shows will be in the Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler's Wells.

As always, the cast is in black evening wear, performing from script, with no props and no scenery.

Although no casting has yet been announced, actors and singers are mainly drawn from the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Companies, the West End and the Broadway stage, and have included Henry Goodman, Kenneth Haigh, Louise Gold, Dilys Laye, Thelma Ruby, Daniel Massey, Frank Thornton, Gavin Lee, Lauren Ward, Kitty Carlisle, David de Keyser, Desmond Barrit, Sam Kelly, Betsy Blair, Sara Kestelman, Janie Dee, Denis Quilley.

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