Broadway loves celebrating its anniversaries and, hot on the heels of the 50th for Chicago, the wonderful A Chorus Line reached that landmark.
Tag Archives | Michael Bennett
Remembering Donald Pippin (1926-2022) – Broadway’s favourite musical director, conductor and arranger
In many ways Donald Pippin, who has died at the age of 95, was the American musical theatre’s greatest maestro as a musical director and conductor. And from 1955 until 2018 he was also responsible for the vocal arrangements of some of Broadway’s most successful shows. Michael Darvell looks back on a great musical career… […]
Five Questions With: Adam Cooper
Award-winning performer ADAM COOPER plays the intimidating director/choreographer Zach in Curve Leicester’s production of the groundbreaking musical A Chorus Line, directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Ellen Kane (running until 31 December 2021). Having gained acclaim for creating the lead role of the Swan/Stranger in Matthew Bourne’s production of Swan Lake – a role […]
Curve to bring in A Chorus Line to replace delayed Wizard of Oz
Leicester Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster will direct a major new production of classic Broadway musical A Chorus Line this Christmas. Running from 3 to 31 December 2021, the Made In Curve production will replace the planned festive run of the regional premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of The Wizard of Oz which has […]
Dancing up a storm – Remembering Bob Avian
BOB AVIAN, the celebrated director, producer and choreographer, has died at the age of 83. Famed for his work on major productions of A Chorus Line, Ballroom, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, Follies, Sunset Boulevard and The Witches of Eastwick, he had become something of a Broadway legend. Michael Darvell looks back over a long and […]
A Chorus Line – New York City Center
A Chorus Line was performed at New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Just a year after the spectacular production reinventing Brigadoon, just released on CD, the New York City Center Annual Gala presented this year another landmark musical, one that doesn’t need to be reinvented. The immortal A Chorus Line via Baayork Lee and Bob Avian was just as Michael Bennett originally conceived, directed and choreographed […]
There will always be a place to enjoy his comic genius’: Remembering Neil Simon
NEIL SIMON, the most prolific comedy writer in the world who died on 26 August 2018 at the age of 91, had a very long career as a writer for television, the theatre and the cinema. There was just nobody else to match him, not even Shakespeare! Michael Darvell looks back at the life of a total comic […]
Ballroom – Waterloo East Theatre
Ballroom continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London, until 4 June. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Waterloo East has dug up this almost-forgotten 1978 Broadway musical and given it a modest UK premiere almost 40 years on at its 100-seater theatre just a short waltz from Waterloo Station. Ballroom’s main claim […]
Jessica Martin cast as lead in Ballroom at Waterloo East Theatre
Versatile West End star Jessica Martin will take on the central role in the European premiere of Broadway musical Ballroom at Waterloo East Theatre next month. The actress who has starred in major productions of musical theatre classics including Me and My Girl, Mack and Mabel and South Pacific, will play the lonely widow at the […]
Broadway musical Ballroom to receive its European debut at Waterloo East Theatre
Broadway musical Ballroom is to receive its European premiere at Waterloo East Theatre 38 years after it was last seen on stage. Developed by the Tony Award-winning co-creator of A Chorus Line Michael Bennett, who directed and choreographed the show’s only production in the late 1970s, Ballroom will play the South London venue from 12 […]
London’s A Chorus Line closes in August
Producers have today announced that the revival of A Chorus Line at the London Palladium will close on Saturday, 31st August. Plans are currently being finalised for a European tour which will give audiences in Germany, Holland, France and beyond the chance to see the London production, prior to a UK tour beginning in autumn […]
