Joining Imelda Staunton, who stars as Momma Rose in the West End transfer of Jonathan Kent’s production of Gypsy, are Lara Pulver who will reprise the role of Louise and Peter Davison who joins the cast to play Herbie. Final casting for the Chichester Festival Theatre production will be announced shortly. A musical fable with book by Arthur Laurents, Gypsy has music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, suggested by […]
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Imelda Staunton leads West End transfer of Chichester’s Gypsy
Imelda Staunton will star as the indomitable Momma Rose in the West End transfer of Jonathan Kent’s sell-out Chichester Festival Theatre production of Gypsy, the first to be seen in London for 40 years. This strictly limited season opens at the Savoy Theatre on 15 April 2015 with previews from 28 March 2015. Further casting for Gypsy, which goes on sale today […]
Stephen Mear travels from Gypsy to the City of Angels in Part Two of our exclusive interview
Last week Gypsy opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and among the rave reviews were comments such as: “Stephen Mear’s choreography is a joy” (The Stage) and “Stephen Mear’s choreography has a bright-eyed wit” (London Evening Standard). Olivier Award-winning STEPHEN MEAR has become hugely respected in the industry as both a choreographer and director. At Chichester, where he is […]
Gypsy – Chichester Festival Theatre
Gypsy continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 8 November. Gypsy is considered to be the best showbiz musical of all time and this production proves it. The news that Imelda Staunton was to be reunited with Jonathan Kent, who directed her in Sweeney Todd, created quite a buzz and raised very high expectations. Those expectations are well […]
Choreographer Stephen Mear reveals all about Gypsy at Chichester
Tonight is an important date in Olivier Award-winning choreographer STEPHEN MEAR’s diary – it’s the hotly anticipated official opening of Gypsy at the Chichester Festival Theatre, one of a line-up of shows he has collaborated on at the venue where he is an associate. In true Billy Elliot style, Mear began dancing at the age […]
The Pajama Game – Shaftesbury Theatre
The Pajama Game continues at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, until 13 September. A musical about union trouble at a pajama factory in a small Midwest town in 1950s America doesn’t immediately appeal as something worth dragging yourself away from the MasterChef final for. But then neither did one based on a book of twee TS […]
The Pajama Game – listen to Xavier and Riding in action
For all those looking forward to the West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre’s staging of The Pajama Game, opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 13 May, there is now a song from the production available to listen to for the first time. ‘Hey There’, sung by the show’s co-stars Joanna Riding and Michael Xavier […]
Imelda Staunton’s Gypsy headlines Chichester Festival Theatre season
Chichester Festival Theatre’s much-anticipated production of Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton as Mama Rose, will open on 14 October (running to 8 November) in the newly refurbished main house as part of the 2014 season. The production will reunite Staunton with director Jonathan Kent, following their award-winning collaboration on Sweeney Todd. Also in the cast will be Lara […]
Polycarpou and Wilmot confirmed for The Pajama Game
Peter Polycarpou, Gary Wilmot and Colin Stinton join the cast of the West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of The Pajama Game, directed by Richard Eyre. Polycarpou and Stinton reprise their roles as Vernon Hines and Hasler, with Wilmot taking over the role of Vernon Hines from 2 June. They join the previously […]
Chichester Pajama Game hits West End in May 2014
Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of The Pajama Game, directed by Richard Eyre, transfers to the West End on 1 May (press night is 13 May), playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre until 13 September 2014. The musical will move in when the current show residing there – From Here to Eternity – closes. In 1950s America, […]
Singin’ in the Rain – Manchester and Touring
Singin’ in the Rain continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 30 November, then tours until 4 October, 2014. It is strange to think that, while the original 1952 MGM musical is such an indelibly imprinted and long-standing classic, the stage version of Singin’ in the Rain has only been with us for the last […]
Singin’ in the Rain tour set for Manchester opening
The UK and Ireland tour of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Singin’ in the Rain opens at Manchester Opera House on 13 November (with previews from Saturday 9 November), before playing a Christmas and New Year season in Cardiff. Singin’ in the Rain will feature Maxwell Caulfield as studio boss RF Simpson, actress and former member of Steps Faye Tozer and […]
