What a competition we have for fans of Sondheim!
Two tickets to the concert Send in the Clowns: Sondheim’s Extraordinary Women at the Lichfield Festival on Saturday 14 July at 2.30pm
An invite to a drink with the cast afterwards
AND free membership to the Sondheim Society for a year!
As part of the 2018 Lichfield Festival, the Stephen Sondheim Society, with award-winning musical director Jason Carr, will be presenting a new cabaret/revue celebrating the extraordinary women in the shows of Sondheim and his collaborators.
“The theme of the Lichfield Festival is extraordinary women, so it seemed like a natural fit to honour the extraordinary women in Sondheim’s musicals,” says Sondheim Society chairman Craig Glenday. “Be they lovers or wives, mistresses or mothers, fading actresses or psychotic pie-makers, these now-classic characters are all worthy of celebration.
“We’re blessed with this incredible line up, too – Jason Carr as musical director, three extraordinary women in the shape of Beverley Klein, Charlotte Page and Corrine Priest, and one extraordinary man: Nigel Richards.”
Expect to hear a selection of Sondheim’s most popular numbers, from ‘Broadway Baby’ to ‘Ladies Who Lunch’, ‘Losing My Mind’ to ‘Move On’ and of course the title song, ‘Send in the Clowns’.
To win this fabulous package of prizes, just answer the following question:
Which one of these characters is an extraordinary Sondheim woman?
A) Effie White
B) Sally Bowles
C) Mrs Lovett
Email: lisa@musicaltheatrereview.com with your answer, full name, contact email and number. The closing date is Sunday 8 July at midnight.
- Send in the Clowns: Sondheim’s Extraordinary Women plays at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre on the afternoon of Saturday 14 July. Tickets available HERE.
Meet the performers:
Jason Carr (musical director): After winning the 1988 Vivian Ellis Prize for Young Writers of Musicals, Carr was invited by Peter Hall to compose the musical Born Again (Chichester Festival Theatre starring Mandy Patinkin and José Ferrer).
As associate composer at Chichester 2003–05, he wrote music and lyrics for two new musicals: The Water Babies and Six Pictures of Lee Miller. His musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol has played Chichester, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep, and his new musical Lockhart has received a developmental production at Mountview Academy.
Carr has composed incidental music for over 50 plays at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, in the West End and on Broadway. Orchestration credits includes the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Sunday in the Park with George, La Cage aux Folles and A Little Night Music (all also Broadway). Carr has also accompanied many notable artists, including a long association with Maria Friedman.
Beverley Klein (Extraordinary Woman 1): Theatre: The Beggar’s Opera (Paris and international tour), Deathtrap (Salisbury and national tour), Caroline or Change (Chichester); After October (Finborough); Ivanov, Platonov (Young Chekhov at Chichester and NT); Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George (Paris); Candide, Romeo and Juliet, Honk! The Ugly Duckling, Summerfolk and The Villains’ Opera (NT); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Six Pictures of Lee Miller (Chichester); Equally Divided (Watford); Cornelius (Finborough and NY); Me and My Girl (Kilworth); Ephesus-Schmephesus (Bush Theatre); Bernarda Alba (Union Theatre); The Kissing-Dance (Jermyn Street); Candide (ENO and Japanese tour); Fiddler on the Roof (Sheffield and Savoy Theatre); Into the Woods (ROH); The Enchanted Pig (Linbury and NY); Restoration (Headlong); Jerry Springer The Opera (Edinburgh); The Threepenny Opera (Donmar); Wedding Day at the Cro Magnons (Soho Theatre); Six Characters Looking for an Author (Young Vic); The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband (Snarling Beasties); Piaf (Nottingham/York/Oldham); Sweeney Todd and Arms and the Cow (Opera North); The Pirates of Penzance, HMS, Pinafore and Die Fledermaus (Carl Rosa Opera); Sarrasine, A Judgment in Stone, Night After Night (Gloria Theatre Company); original cast Les Misérables (RSC, Barbican Theatre and Palace Theatre).
Charlotte Page (Extraordinary Woman 2): Page’s work includes Alice Beineke in The Addams Family Musical tour, Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd for WNO, Sally Durrant in the French premiere of Sondheim’s Follies for Opera de Toulon (and has also played Young Heidi at the London Palladium and Heidi at the Royal Albert Hall), Christine in Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Mrs. Jones in the award-winning Street Scene at The Young Vic, Mrs. Nordstrom in A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Mrs. Pearce in the 100th anniversary tour of Pygmalion. She also played various characters in the premiere of the controversial play An Audience With Jimmy Savile at The Park Theatre.
Corrine Priest (Extraordinary Woman 3): Priest won The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year award in 2014. Musical theatre: Lucy in Can’t Stop It (The Other Palace), Woman in GOD! A Celebration (and Parody) of Stephen Sondheim, Lucy in Ushers: The Front of House Musical (Arts Theatre), Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol (Blackpool Opera House) and Amy Thomas in Girlfriends (Union Theatre). Priest also recorded the acclaimed one-woman song cycle, Heart of Winter.
Nigel Richards (Extraordinary Man): Nigel has just finished playing the lead in the national tour of Son of a Preacher Man. West End: Phantom in Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s), As You Like It (Wyndham’s), Les Misérables (Palace), Martin Guerre (Prince Edward), Napoleon (Shaftesbury), The Cutting Edge (Donmar), 10 Plagues (Royal Court) and Songs from a Hotel Bedroom (Royal Opera House). Theatre: By Jeeves, The World Goes Round (Scarborough), A Little Night Music (Frinton), Hair (national tour), Ghosts, Macbeth, The Mikado (New Vic), Blood Brothers (Dublin), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Scoop), The Glass Menagerie (Oxford Touring Company), A Funny Thing Happened (Manchester), School for Scandal, China Song (Plymouth). Premieres: Spend! Spend! Spend! (Leeds), Charlotte Saloman (Philadelphia and Amsterdam), Baby (Forum), Green Violin (Amsterdam), Floyd Collins, Songs for a New World and Hello Again (Bridewell), The Stationmaster (Tristan Bates), Neil Gaiman’s Night Before My Wedding (Latitude).
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