Performance

Venue	ChickenShed
	Also: Rayne Theatre
Town	Outer London
County	Greater London
From	14th May 2001
To	2nd June 2001
When	May 21-26, May 29-June 2
Prices	From £8.00. To £10.00.
ChickenShed (V349)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

The Laughing Man

Work:: The Laughing Man (S1095566449)

Five years after the publication Les Miserables Victor Hugo began writing what one critic described as 'the maddest book in recognised literature'. The book was L'Homme Qui Rit - The Laughing Man.

Book by

Victor Hugo

Production:: (T1405570526)

Chicken Shed's new musical version comes complete with a singing bear, a dancing corpse, a shipwreck, a frozen woman, a torture chamber, and the entire House of Lords behaving like football hooligans at the last Night of the Proms...but The Laughing Man is also a love story, with 20 new songs by Jo Collins and a book and lyrics by Chris Bond whose Sweeney Todd was made into a musical by Stephen Sondheim.

Company	Chicken Shed Theatre Company
Director	Chris Bond
Director	Mary Ward
Design	Ellen Cairns
Costume	Ellen Cairns
Lighting	Paul Knowles
Director	Jo Collins (music)
Choreographer	Christine Niering
Performer	George Costigan
Performer	John Sargeant
Performer	Geoffrey Boud
Performer	Julia Nield
Performer	Emily Gardner
Performer	Michael Offei
Performer	Joseph Morton
Performer	Peter Dowse
Performer	James Dunbar
Performer	Lucia Bellini
Performer	Anthony Adjekum
Performer	Dan Waller
Performer	Jelena Budimir

Listing:: L061944784

Production details

Chicken Shed's new musical version comes complete with a singing bear, a dancing corpse, a shipwreck, a frozen woman, a torture chamber, and the entire House of Lords behaving like football hooligans at the last Night of the Proms...but The Laughing Man is also a love story, with 20 new songs by Jo Collins and a book and lyrics by Chris Bond whose Sweeney Todd was made into a musical by Stephen Sondheim.

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