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From the composer of Half A Sixpence, a joyous musical celebration of Hollywood's glorious era of silent film - beginning in 1912 when disreputable "flickers" are shown in fleapits and no self-respecting actor will appear in them, and ending in 1927 with movies now a glamorous, multi-million dollar industry and the first talking pictures signal the doom of silent films. In a breath taking sweep of just fifteen years, the great innovative directors created filmmaking as we know it today, ground breaking movie moguls laid the foundations of the entertainment industry, and trail blazing actors launched the Hollywood star system. Weaving together the heartbreaks and triumphs of the flawed genius director D. W. Griffith and the first movie stars Lilian Gish and Mary Pickford, The Biograph Girl is a love letter to the stardust and scandals of the silent movie era.T01097518270The libretto has been especially revised for this production by its original co-writer Warner Brown and includes - for the very first time - the reintroduction of songs cut from the West End premiere production.Presented byMercurius (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre). Director Jenny Eastop. Musical Director Anna Yates. Choreographer Holly Hughes. Design Anna Yates. Lighting Ali Hunter. Performer Matthew Cavendish (Sennett). Performer Lauren Chinery (Dorothy Gish). Performer Joshua C Jackson (Epping). Performer Emily Langham (Lillian Gish). Performer Jonathan Leinmuller (D W Griffith). Performer Sophie Linder-Lee (Mary Pickford). Performer JasonMorell (Bitzer / Zukor). Performer Charlie Ryall (Rose). Performer Nova Skipp (Momma). | |
| 22 May 18 to 9 Jun 18 | Finborough, Inner London :: V199 listing details L01745247771 |
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