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Posts Tagged ‘Jeremy Sams’

Review of Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2019 production of Oklahoma!  (FOLLOW LINK) As usual, Chichester’s annual major musical is an event. A packed theatre, soaring music, incredible dancing and singing … see my 5 star review.

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After an intensive week of Chekhov and Shakespeare, a total change in Monsieur Popular by Eugene Marin Labiche, a classic French farce from 1863 at Bath;s Ustinov Studio.

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Review of A Damsel in Distress at Chichester. (reviewed at link) Take a 1919 P.G. Wodehouse novel, its 1928 adaptation into a stage play, add the George & Ira Gershwin songs for the 1938 Fred Astaire film … and re-invent it entirely for 2015, with Jeremy Sams doing the book.

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Review of Jean Anouilh’s The Rehearsal (LINKED) at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre. A truly five star production, centered on an outstanding performance by Edward Bennett. I’ll be surprised if his portrayal of Hero isn’t the best performance of 2015. Rehearsal_castv2_5512cbb034776

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