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Dateline: 11th November, 2011
Lowry Spring Season The Lowry has just announced its programme of events for January to April of 2012, although it's biggest headlining production is one that was announced some time ago. The collaboration between The Lowry as the venue, the Royal Exchange Theatre, whose co-artistic director Braham Murray will direct, and the Hallé conducted by Sir Mark Elder on a new production of Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town will star Connie Fisher as Ruth, which she describes as "a great comic role". However this isn't the only large-scale musical theatre production in the programme, as Josefina Gabriella and Ramon Tikaram will star in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I in a production from Curve Theatre in Leicester. In non-musical theatre, Stephen Daldry's highly-acclaimed National Theatre production of An Inspector Calls is revived, and National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner returns to direct Nicholas Wright's new play Travelling Light starring Anthony Sher. Propeller Theatre will bring more of its all-male Shakespeare to Salford, this time tackling Henry V and A Winter's Tale, and there will be more Shakespeare from Halifax-based Northern Broadsides with its own take on Love's Labours Lost. Library Theatre Company will continue its association with The Lowry with D H Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law. The dance programme includes the return of Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, Birmingham Royal Ballet's Beauty and the Beast, Hofesh Shechter's Political Mother and Bianca Li's Paris electro Elektro Kif. Opera North will once again visit The Lowry with Bellini's Norma, Handel's Guilio Cesare and Puccini's Madama Butterfly as well as a major new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel directed by Jo Davies and choreographed by Kim Brandstrup. The Lowry Studio continues to build its programme, which in the new season will be headlined by the world première of Geoff Page's No Sleep for the Haunted, a musical based on classic tales from Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens and M R James. Library Theatre Company's Re:Play Festival, which celebrates the best small-scale theatre in Manchester over the previous twelve months, will next year take place in the Lowry Studio as well. For family audiences, there will be stage adaptations of popular children's picture books The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr and The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. David Chadderton
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