The original series, which ran from 1975 to 1979, followed inept hotel manager Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, as he tried to keep his hotel and marriage afloat.
Fifty years since it was first recorded at BBC Television Centre in 1974, the “greatest British sitcom of all time” (Radio Times) Fawlty Towers, has been adapted for the West End stage by comedy legend John Cleese and will premiere at London’s Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue on Wednesday 15 May.
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