How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 17 June 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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New London production of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Georgie Rankcom will return to Southwark Playhouse to direct a new production of the classic Broadway musical How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
Nicholas Hytner to direct immersive production of Guys and Dolls at The Bridge Theatre
Nicholas Hytner will direct Guys and Dolls – the first musical to be presented at The Bridge – a musical fable of Broadway based on the story and characters of Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreography will be by Arlene Phillips. This immersive […]
Remembering Robert Morse (1931-2022)
The American actor Robert Morse may only be remembered for the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and playing Bertram Cooper in Mad Men on TV from 2007 to 2015. However, he had a very busy career on stage, in films and on television, as Michael Darvell reports. Robert Alan Morse, who […]
Ria Jones heads up the Guys and Dolls cast at Paris’ Theatre Marigny
Paris will be seeing Guys and Dolls for the first time when Frank Loesser’s iconic 1950 musical lands in the Theatre Marigny, just off the Champs-Elysees, for a four-and-a-half-month run from 13 March to 27 July. Ria Jones, so brilliant in Sunset Boulevard, heads the cast which also features Clare Halse, Christopher Howell and Matthew […]
Guys and Dolls – Royal Albert Hall
Guys and Dolls was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The legendary Royal Albert Hall turned into musical comedy heaven for a weekend. Though the venue will never be the ideal venue for musical theatre, and there have been better productions lately of Guys and […]
Guys and Dolls – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Guys and Dolls continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester until 3 February 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Reimagining Frank Loesser’s almost unparalleled Broadway fable with an all-black cast is not a new idea. It was done in 1976 when the show was first revived on Broadway, in a Motown-infused […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Wilton’s Music Hall
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 22 April. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The self-help book may not seem like the likeliest of genres from which to birth a musical comedy. But Shepherd Mead’s 1952 book How to Succeed in Business Without […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Wilton’s Music Hall – cast details
Final casting has been unveiled for next month’s revival of the classic Broadway musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Due to play Wilton’s Music Hall from 8-22 April, the production has added Andrew C Wadsworth (pictured), Maisey Bawden, Daniel Graham, Richard Emerson, Matthew Whitby and Nuwan Hugh Perera to the previously announced […]
Guildford School of Acting – Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls, performed by Guildford School of Acting final-year students at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, continues until 25 April. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s probably sacrilege to say so, but this remarkable student revival of one of the greatest musicals ever written leaves for dead the much-praised Chichester Festival […]
Wilton’s Music Hall to revive How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Classic Broadway musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will return to London over 50 years after its West End debut when it plays Wilton’s Music Hall in April. The revival of the show which launched on Broadway in 1961 will play the distinctive East London venue from 8 until 22 April with a […]
London Guys and Dolls to close early
Producers of Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows’ Guys and Dolls at London’s Phoenix Theatre have confirmed that the show will close four months early, on 21 August 2016. The closure will coincide with the departure of award-winning actor Rebel Wilson (playing Miss Adelaide) who joined the West End cast for a strictly limited eight weeks only on 28 June. A […]
Nigel Lindsay joins Guys and Dolls at the Phoenix
Nigel Lindsay will be joining the West End cast of Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows’ Guys and Dolls for a limited time at the Phoenix Theatre to play the part of Nathan Detroit. Lindsay will take over from American star Richard Kind who will give his last performance as commitment-phobic gambler Detroit on 22 May. The […]
Guys and Dolls – Empire Theatre, Liverpool and Touring
Guys and Dolls continues at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool until 19 March and then tours until 30 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Chichester Festival Theatre has become the theatre to watch, with West End transfers and regional touring of at least one production per season coming out of the regional […]
Guys and Dolls tour – Richard Fleeshman and Louise Dearman cast
Following critical acclaim and announcing an extension in the West End, the Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls will tour throughout the UK, opening at the Liverpool Empire on 16 March 2016. Casting for the tour includes Richard Fleeshman (Coronation Street, Ghost the Musical, Call the Midwife) as Sky Masterson, Maxwell Caulfield (Grease […]
Guys and Dolls transfers to Phoenix Theatre while also touring UK
Following critical acclaim at the Savoy Theatre, the Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls will transfer to the Phoenix Theatre (following the closure of Bend It Like Beckham) while simultaneously touring the UK from March 2016. The West End production opens 19 March and is booking until 30 October while the UK tour […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Guildhall Great Hall
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying was performed at the Guildhall Great Hall, London as part of the City of London Festival. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ London’s magnificent Guildhall Great Hall, adorned with glamorous chandeliers and grand stained glass windows, proved to be a truly spectacular venue for City of London Festival’s production of How […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Royal Festival Hall
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Frank Loesser’s musical satire of self-help books and office politics enjoyed a one-night concert performance on London’s South Bank, courtesy of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and a truly stellar cast. The 1961 show – […]
Cynthia Erivo and Clarke Peters join How to Succeed concert line-up
Further cast details have been announced today for the Gala Concert Presentation of Frank Loesser’s classic 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Produced by independent promoter Senbla in association with Elliot Davis, British/American actor Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme) and Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple, Dessa Rose, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) join […]
Jonathan Groff leads How to Succeed concert at Festival Hall
Direct from his current role in Hamilton at the Public Theater in New York, Jonathan Groff (HBO’s Looking, Glee) will play J. Pierrepont Finch in a concert production of Frank Loesser’s classic 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Royal Festival Hall on 19 May. Also in the cast are Game of Thrones and […]
Gary Williams – A Swingin’ Christmas – Crazy Coqs
Gary Williams’ show A Swingin’ Christmas continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 24 December. Returning to this venue after a sell-out run last year, Gary Williams gets the audience to join him an old-fashioned Christmas. And what a party he creates. He provides a veritable potpourri with seasonable songs – not just old chestnuts but some […]
Guys and Dolls – Chichester Festival Theatre
Guys and Dolls continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 21 September. It looks very much as though Chichester has scored another mega-hit with Frank Loesser’s musical fable of Broadway (book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows). It’s big, brash and boasts a brilliant score that is stylish, witty and packed with tunes, many that […]
Wartime Women: A Khaki Cabaret – Fiona-Jane Weston – St James Studio
Wartime Women: A Khaki Cabaret was performed by Fiona-Jane Weston at St James Studio, London. Now for something completely different – a cabaret about the role women played in war, from Queen Elizabeth I’s speech to the troops at Tilbury in 1588 to Hannah Snell, who disguised herself as a man and joined the Marines in 1747 (and […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Ye Olde Rose and Crown
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying continues until at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London until 24 May. Modern self-help books tend to be dreary reading, and certainly not worthy musical theatre source material. In 1952, however, Shepherd Mead released How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, a humorous look at US […]
All Star Productions stages How to Succeed
All Star Productions is presenting a rare professional revival of the 1961 Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, Walthamstow from 6–24 May (press night is 9 May). The musical follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook called […]
