Everybody s Talking About Jamie UK Tour - 2021
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Running from June 3-6 next to the CFT, they come as part of a celebratory weekend of open-air entertainment in Oaklands Park, heralding the reopening of the theatre ahead of the summer musical South Pacific.
On stage for the concerts will be West End artists including Carly Bawden (Romantics Anonymous, Alice, My Fair Lady), Sharon Rose (Hamilton, Caroline, Or Change, Motown) and Ako (Caroline, Or Change, Sister Act, The Color Purple) plus a live band performing beloved numbers from musical theatre and beyond for an uplifting evening of sunshine and song.
The format will follow the successful model seen at last summer’s events, with a raised stage and screens either side. The concerts will directed by Louise Shephard, whose recent work includes CFT’s Celebrating Sondheim concert, and the musical director will be Theo Jamieson.
CFT summer
SOUTH PACIFIC. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener. Directed by Daniel Evans. 5 July – 4 September 2021, live in the Festival Theatre. Streamed as live on 4, 9, 14, 18, 21, 26, 31 August & 3 September
Led by Gina Beck (Matilda, Show Boat, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera) as Nellie, Julian Ovenden (Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, Merrily We Roll Along, Grand Hotel, BBC Proms) as Emile, Joanna Ampil (Avenue Q, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon) as Bloody Mary, Keir Charles (Quiz, Back To Life) and Rob Houchen (Les Misérables, The Light in the Piazza) as Cable, the cast also includes Iroy Abesamis, Carl Au, Rosanna Bates, David Birrell, Leslie Garcia Bowman, Taylor Bradshaw, Bobbie Chambers, Danny Collins, Shailan Gohil, Adrian Grove, Zack Guest, Cameron Bernard Jones, Amanda Lindgren, Matthew Maddison, Sera Maehara (as Liat), Melissa Nettleford, Rachel Jayne Picar, Kat
Faith Healer
Verdict: Lyrical healing
We have the Irish to thank for keeping the music in the English language alive on stage over the past century. Two of the greatest exponents of this are Frank McGuinness and Brian Friel.
McGuinness has a new play, The Visiting Hour, out this week. Starring Stephen Rea and Judith Roddy, it was filmed at Dublin s Gate Theatre. And one of Friel s finest, Faith Healer, has been recorded as an audio drama, with Ian Rickson directing Ciaran Hinds, Michelle Fairley and Toby Jones.
The Visiting Hour is a dark, unsettling game of cat and mouse between a man with dementia, living in a care home, and his daughter, who comes to see him during the pandemic.
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