She s been a sitcom favourite, an acclaimed stage actress and strutted her stuff on Strictly Come Dancing.
Now Felicity Kendal is to make her musical theatre debut at the age of 74 – even though, as she readily admits: ‘I can’t sing!’
The star has been chosen by celebrated Broadway director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall to join Megan Mullally and Robert Lindsay in Anything Goes at the Barbican this summer.
The revival of Cole Porter’s effervescent farce, set aboard an ocean liner, was a huge hit when it ran in New York ten years ago.
Felicity Kendal (pictured) is to make her musical theatre debut at the age of 74 – even though, as she readily admits: ‘I can’t sing!’
Most expensive West End tickets selling faster than cheap seats as people crave live performances
Premium tickets costing as much as £150 are being snapped up over £13 seats as theatre-goers seek to be closer to other human beings
19 December 2020 • 4:09pm
Quiet streets outside theaters in the West End district after the capital was placed into Tier 3 restrictions
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The most expensive tickets for West End productions are selling faster than cheaper seats for the first time because theatre-goers are missing live performances so much, a leading producer has said.
Sir Howard Panter, whose forthcoming productions include Jersey Boys, the Tony and Olivier award-winning hit musical, said premium tickets costing as much as £125 and £150 are being snapped up over seats that can be had for as little as £13.
By Dan Atkinson
December 11, 2020 14:54 GMT
On hearing that plans are advancing for a new theatre in London s West End, some may be tempted to echo the fictional civil servant Humphrey Appleby and declare it a courageous move . In this context, of course, courageous means foolhardy .
Co-Founders of Trafalgar Entertainment, Dame Rosemary Squire and Sir Howard Panter.
Trafalgar Entertainment
Sir Howard Panter, who, with his wife and business partner Dame Rosemary Squire, is the moving force behind the project, does not agree. The coronavirus and its accompanying restrictions, he says, have not changed the elemental need that has always drawn people to the performing arts.