Daniel Evans reveals his final season at Sheffield Theatres
Daniel Evans’ final season as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres will feature a new production of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun with Anna-Jane Casey in the title role. Paul Foster directs alongside choreographer Alistair David.
Next year begins with the world premiere of a brand new musical – Everybody’s Talking About Jamie by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae, from an idea by Jonathan Butterell who also directs.
Evans said today, “I’m delighted that my final season at Sheffield will combine new and classic plays and musicals. It’s particularly edifying that two of our productions – a new adaptation of the classic novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and a brand new musical, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – will come to the stage after many years of development work.
“Our Christmas musical, which has become something of a tradition now in Sheffield, will also continue to thrive in the wonderful hands of director Paul Foster and choreographer Alistair David who this year will stage Annie Get Your Gun. We shall soon be announcing news of my successor, but in the meantime, I want to thank everyone at Sheffield Theatres – staff, partners and audiences – for the most joyful seven years.”
Annie Get Your Run will run at the Crucible Theatre from 8 December 2016 to 14 January 2017 (press night is 14 December).
Anna-Jane Casey returns to Sheffield Theatres to play Annie Oakley – she previously appeared in Company, Sweet Charity and Piaf, and will soon be seen in Flowers For Mrs Harris. Her recent theatre credits include Mack & Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre and UK tour), Jerry’s Girls (St James Theatre), Forbidden Broadway (Menier Chocolate Factory and Vaudeville Theatre), Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre), Aladdin (Hackney Empire), The Comedy of Errors (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Bells are Ringing (Union Theatre) and Spamalot (Playhouse Theatre).
Paul Foster directs. His theatre credits include Tell Me On a Sunday (Watermill and national tour), Sweet Charity (Cadogan Hall), L’Amante Anglaise (NT Studio), Bette Midler and Me (Edinburgh Festival and St James Theatre), Laurel and Hardy (Watermill), Darling of the Day, Bells are Ringing, Crimes of the Heart (Union Theatre), Catch Me If You Can, The Music Man, Singin’ in the Rain, Grand Hotel (Arts Educational), Cowardy Custard (Yvonne Arnaud and national tour), The Vagina Monologues (national tour), Flora the Red Menace (Edinburgh Festival), Lorca: Playwright and Poet (Lyttelton, National Theatre platform performances) and Little One (Royal Court Young Writers Festival).
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie runs at the Crucible from 8 to 25 February 2017 (press night is 13 February). The new musical is a coming-of-age story with a twist, featuring new songs by lead singer-songwriter of The Feeling Dan Gillespie Sells and writer Tom MacRae.
Jamie New is 16. He’s from Sheffield. And he has a secret. He doesn’t quite fit in at school. His Dad’s left home. He’s about to sit his GCSEs. The future is terrifying.
With his brilliant mum behind him, will Jamie be brave enough to stand up for who he really wants to be?
Dan Gillespie Sells is best known for being the lead vocalist and principal songwriter in The Feeling. Their debut album, Twelve Stops and Home, sold more than a million copies, while their second album, Join With Us, reached the No. 1 spot in the UK charts. The band’s fifth album is to be released in March 2016. His theatre credits include The Bad, The Sad, And The Broken Hearted (Soho Theatre and The Steve Allen Theatre, Los Angeles), 3WITHD (London Coliseum and Stuttgart Ballet). He wrote the theme music for television series Beautiful People. Gillespie Sells won the Ivor Novello award for Song Writer of the Year in 2007.
Tom MacRae’s theatre credits include Crash Of The Elysium (Manchester International Festival). His television credits include The Librarians, Bulldog Drummond, Fungus The Bogeyman, Threesome, Overboard, The Store, Uniform, Snake Tattoo, Pulse, Escape, Money Can Buy You Love, School’s Out, Doctor Who, Bonekickers, Lewis, Mayo, No Angels As If, U Get Me, Mile High.
Jonathan Butterell directs. His recent directing credits include Love Musik (La Plaza, Buenos Aires) and Second Chance (The Public Theatre, New York). Other work includes Whida Peru, Resurrection Tangle, Tres Niñas (Inner Voices for Premier Stages), Giant (Signature Theatre), See What I Wanna See (Jermyn Street Theatre), Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre), Alone Together – Divas at the Donmar (Donmar Warehouse and Royal Haymarket Theatre). Butterell co-directed Sweeney Todd (Opera North and Sadler’s Wells) with David McVicker. He also co-directed Peter Pan (Royal Festival Hall) with Julia McKenzie and Into the Woods with John Crowley (Donmar Warehouse).
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