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Robin Williams as Popeye, Wesley Ivan Hurt as Swee’Pea and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in 1980’s Popeye.
Robert Altman directed Williams who stepped in for original star Dustin Hoffman and Shelley Duvall in the film. The Hollywood Reporter s critic deemed it a disappointment, but the movie went on to box office success.
Popeye, which turns 40 this month, owes a debt to another beloved character: Little Orphan Annie. Producer Robert Evans desperately wanted to make
Annie for Paramount. But when it went to Columbia, he was determined to make his own comic strip musical, and learned that Paramount owned
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The MTFestUK shows
MTFestUK has unveiled its line-up for its 2021 season of brand new work-in-progress pieces that will be staged in early 2021.
The series will feature the likes of including Tasha Taylor-Johnson, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Drew McConie, Caroline Kay, Matt White, Thabo Stuck, Harry Hill, Scott Frankel and Poppy Burton Morgan.
It opens on with a stage version of multi-award-nominated
Far From Heaven, which follows a 50s housewife with hidden secrets and passions. The show will have book by Richard Greenberg, music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie and direction by Matthew White and runs from 1 to 3 February.