A brand new adaptation of festive favourite Irving Berlin’s White Christmas will be the 2018 festive musical at Curve.
Chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Nikolai Foster have exclusively revealed Curve will be producing the classic musical and have hinted at other plans they have in store to celebrate 10 years of Curve.
Curve will mark its tenth birthday with a series of special events including its most ambitious community and Curve Young Company musical to date, Joseph Stein’s Fiddler On the Roof, and Curve Live! – a free public concert featuring performances from friends of Curve and special guest stars.
Speaking about the announcements, Stafford and Foster said: “In 10 years Curve has established itself as a leading producing theatre in the UK, reaching over one million people a year through the work we present and produce in our LE1 home and on tour.
“We are incredibly proud of our theatre and to celebrate our first decade we will programme a series of special events to thank the people of Leicester. We are particularly excited to announce Curve Live!, a free public concert and our most ambitious event to date – at the heart of our birthday celebrations.
“In the last few years we have forged terrific partnerships with some of the UK’s best theatre producers and we are delighted to once again be working with Jamie Wilson and his team to produce a new production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas next autumn. White Christmas is the perfect festive show and we very much hope the production we create here in Leicester will be seen around the UK for many Christmases to come.”
Co-producer Jamie Wilson said: “I am thrilled to be presenting an all-time classic, re-imagined for a new generation of musical theatre lovers to fall in love with all over again. I am delighted to be working once again with the team at Curve to bring this hugely popular Christmas favourite to the stage.”
Based on Paramount Pictures’ heart-warming Christmas film of the same name starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and book by David Ives and Paul Blake, White Christmas features an instantly recognisable score including ‘Blue Skies’, ‘Sisters’, ‘Count Your Blessings’ and arguably the most famous Christmas song of them all, ‘White Christmas’.
Curve artistic director Foster (Scrooge the Musical, Sunset Boulevard, Grease, Legally Blonde, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) will reunite with two-time Olivier award-winning choreographer Stephen Mear (Scrooge the Musical, Mary Poppins, Hello, Dolly!) to bring Irving Berlin’s timeless musical to Leicester next Christmas.
Tickets for the Made at Curve 2018 Christmas production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas will be on sale from the week commencing 11 December.
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