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Dateline: 5th May, 2011
Top Hat Stage Premiere and Tour Seventy six years after its movie release, Top Hat will receive its world stage premiere at the Milton Keynes Theatre on 16th August where it opens for the start of an initial seventeen UK week tour prior to an anticipated West End transfer in spring 2012. With music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and based on the RKO motion picture, the screenplay by Dwight Taylor and Allan Scott has been adapted for the stage by Matthew White and Howard Jacques.
Directed by Matthew White and choreographed by Bill Deamer, Tom Chambers and Summer Strallen take the lead roles of Dale Tremont and Jerry Travers, played in the movie by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. They are joined by Martin Ball and Vivien Parry playing husband and wife Horace and Madge Hardwick, Ricardo Afonso as Alberto Beddini and Stephen Boswell as Horace’s valet Bates. Further casting details will be announced shortly. Set designs are by 2011 Laurence Olivier Award Winner Hildegard Bechtler, with costume designs by Jon Morrell, lighting design by Peter Mumford, musical direction by Daniel Jackson, musical supervision by Richard Balcombe, new orchestrations provided by Chris Walker and sound by Gareth Owen. Tour Details
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