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The Wizard of Oz gets Four Nominations
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The Wizard of Oz received four nominations in the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards. During the past month, more than 10,000 London theatre goers have been busy nominating their favourite productions. The shortlist was announced on Friday 2nd December today at the Cafe de Paris in London, and voting is now open for theatre fans to choose their winners at the Whatsonstage.com website. Voting closes on 31st January 2012, and the winners will be announced at a special ceremony on 19th February. The Wizard of Oz’s four nominations are:
Best Musical Revival – The Wizard of Oz London Newcomer of the Year – Danielle Hope Best Supporting Actress in a Musical – Hannah Waddingham Best Set Designer – Robert Jones
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2012 Theatre Breaks in the Olympics and Jubilee Year
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2012 Theatre Breaks 2012 is a special year for the United Kingdom and theatre breaks, not just because of the London 2012 Olympic Games, but also because it’s the The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year as well. That means a lot of extra activity and tourism in central London which will have an effect on the West End venues and on Theatre Breaks bookings. Over twenty shows have responded by extending booking dates early so that you can book early, right now, for all the popular musicals and plays right through into the 2012 celebration year, which may help a lot of people to combine tourism trips and spectating with theatre breaks in London. First the two main events of the year: The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
To mark 60 years of the Queen’s reign the Diamond Jubilee will take place in 2012. The celebrations will centre around an extended weekend in 2012 on 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th June 2012.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sports is responsible for coordinating the Government’s role for Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Buckingham Palace will be coordinating the Queen’s programme for the Diamond Jubilee, including the arrangements for the central Jubilee weekend in the first week of June 2012. For further information about the Diamond Jubilee and the events taking place during 2012, please visit direct.gov.uk/diamondjubilee The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games Olympic Games 27 July-12 Aug 2012 The London 2012 Olympic Games will feature 26 sports, which break down into 39 disciplines. Paralympic Games 29 Aug-9 Sept 2012 There are 20 sports in the Paralympic programme for the London 2012 Games. Paralympic Cycling breaks down into two disciplines: Road and Track. Cultural Olympiad The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is the largest cultural celebration in the history of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Movements. London 2012 Festival The London 2012 Festival is the finale of the four-year Cultural Olympiad, taking place from 21 June to 9 September 2012. Complementing the sport events at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Festival will be the biggest party the UK has ever seen, with a huge range of events from leading artists from all over the world. Theatre Breaks
To be honest, nobody really knows exactly what effect all of this is going to have on London theatre breaks during the 2012 celebration year. Obviously there is going to be a high demand for hotel accommodation and London is going to be prominent in the world’s attention. People who are in London anyway may well wish to visit the West End theatres as part of the whole London experience, and there are certainly plenty of great shows on offer this year. Meanwhile the traditional theatre going public may decide to avoid certain dates in order not to get caught up in the crowds and busier traffic. In order to make the most of the 2012 opportunity presented though, the London theatres as a whole have announced extensions to the booking dates for more than 20 popular shows well in advance, so that those with Olympics tickets or other intentions can book theatre breaks as part of their overall London trip of a lifetime. The shows which have extended so far are as follows: Some of the shows announcing 2012 booking dates extensions are the following West End musicals and plays: We Will Rock You Wicked The Wizard of Oz Billy Elliot the Musical Blood Brothers Dreamboats and Petticoats Jersey Boys The Phantom of the Opera Mamma Mia! Legally Blonde the Musical Ghost The Musical Les Misérables Shrek The Musical Disney’s The Lion King Million Dollar Quartet The Mousetrap The 39 Steps Stomp Thriller Live War Horse The Woman in Black Rock of Ages Matilda The Musical
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Wizard of Oz Prequel – Oz The Great And Powerful
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James Franco will play the young wizard in Oz The Great and Powerful, a feature film from Walt Disney Pictures that began production on July 25th 2011, directed by Sam Raimi. Oz The Great and Powerful is a prequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum, with a script co-written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner. The story is told from the point of view of the Wizard, telling how the Wizard arrived in Oz and how he became the ruler. The all-star cast of the film includes Zach Braff as Franco’s assistant, Mila Kunis as the witch Theodora, Rachel Weisz as Kunis’ sister Evanora and Michelle Williams as Glinda the Good Witch. The film is due to be released through Disney Studios Motion Pictures on March 8th, 2013. When Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus magician is blown off course from Kansas to the land of Oz, he thinks he has made the big time. Then he meets three witches who don’t think he is the great wizard everyone has been expecting. Finding out who is good and who is bad helps Oscar Diggs become the great and powerful Wizard of Oz
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Wizard of Oz London Cast Recording
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The New Wizard of Oz London Cast Recording The full London cast album recording of The Wizard Of Oz is to be released on 2nd May 2011 on Polydor Records in association with Really Useful Group. The 24 track set includes all the much-loved songs from the Oscar-winning movie score by Harold Arlen and E Y Harburg plus new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The Wizard Of Oz cast recording features the full London cast of performers including the multi-award winning Michael Crawford and Danielle Hope, the winner of the BBC One hit TV show Over The Rainbow. The superb supporting cast comprises of Edward Baker-Duly (Tin Man), David Ganly (Cowardly Lion), Paul Keating (Scarecrow), Emily Tierney (Glinda) and Hannah Waddingham (Wicked Witch Of the West) accompanied by a 36 strong ensemble. Here’s the track listing from the show: Tracklisting ACT ONE 1. Overture 2. Nobody Understands Me 3. Over The Rainbow 4. Wonders Of The World 5. The Twister 6. Arrival In Munchkinland 7. Munchkinland / Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead 8. Follow The Yellow Brick Road 9. If I Only Had A Brain / We’re Off To See The Wizard 10. If I Only Had A Heart / We’re Off To See The Wizard 11. If I Only Had The Nerve / We’re Off To See The Wizard 12. We’re Outta The Woods 13. The Merry Old Land Of Oz 14. Bring Me The Broomstick ACT TWO 15. Haunted Forest 16. Red Shoe Blues 17. Bacchanalia 18. Red Shoe Blues (Reprise) 19. Over The Rainbow (Reprise) 20. If We Only Had A Plan 21. The Rescue 22. Hail Hail! The Witch is Dead 23. The Wizards Departure 24. Finale Read more: http://theatrebreaks.co/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz#The_New_Wizard_of_Oz_London_Cast_Recording#ixzz1IeYsvze4
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The Wizard of Oz; Million Dollar Quartet; Great Expectations; And the Rain Falls Down – review
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Theatre reviews for The Wizard of Oz, Million Dollar Quartet, Great Expectations, And the Rain Falls Down. See also previous Wizard of Oz Review
This article titled “The Wizard of Oz; Million Dollar Quartet; Great Expectations; And the Rain Falls Down – review” was written by Kate Kellaway, for The Observer on Sunday 6th March 2011 00.04 UTC We’re off to see the Wizard, and whether he is wonderful or not is going to depend partly on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s reworking of Frank Baum’s book and of the classic 1939 movie. Danielle Hope, auditioned on the BBC’s talent show Over the Rainbow, is also making her debut as Dorothy. And, at the Palladium on the first night, the buzz is unmistakable. But we start by dropping in on a humble Kansas chicken farm where there is nothing more eventful to report than a broken incubator. No wonder Dorothy wants to leave home. This is also where we first clap eyes on the charming Toto, a white Cairn terrier, who deserves a review to himself (I hope there were treats offstage). Toto survives the yellow brick road, a circular treadmill, and is only occasionally understudied – when the going gets tough – by a stuffed toy Danielle Hope’s Dorothy deserves offstage treats, too – for her marvellous performance. If there is a problem, it is with the script. So many of her lines are plaintive, and the unvarying tone of high-pitched petitioning becomes an irritant. But, as a singer, she is perfect. Her voice has warmth, delicacy and power. She starts with the decent, if also-ran, new number “Nobody Understands Me” but we do not have to wait long for ‘”Over the Rainbow” which she offers in a centred, direct, affecting way. It is wonderful to watch her tilt her face upwards, allowing her voice to take off – as if letting out the string of a kite. Michael Crawford has cast himself as her protector. In his benign incarnation as Professor Marvel (the Wizard’s earthly alter-ego), he is encountered outside his caravan about to eat a sausage (which is nicked by Toto). He shows Dorothy magic lantern slides and sings “The Wonders of the World” (by far the best of the new numbers) about pyramids, the Eiffel tower, humpback whales… And he reminds us that he is a bit of a wonder himself, engagingly good at conversing his way through a song. Pots of gold, at the end of the rainbow, must have paid for Robert Jones’s spectacular sets, offset by Jon Driscoll’s virtuoso special effects. A fantastic cyclone transports Dorothy out of Kansas. An airborne cow, random masonry and Dorothy’s house – like a disintegrating matchbox – are hurled into the void. This effect is such a tour de force that Oz seems Toy Townish on arrival, a comedown – in every sense. But the emerald city brings a return to form: a green light district with art deco details, tipsy angles and the Wizard’s alarming residence. The good witch (Emily Tierney) is good – a magical air hostess. The bad witch (Hannah Waddingham) is bad (in a good way). Her “Red Shoes Blues” (another new song) is witty, full-blooded and magnificently performed. As the scarecrow, Paul Keating is poignant, merry and a natural at collapsing. Edward Baker-Duly’s tin man is excellent too, with rusty voice and echoing chest. David Ganly’s cowardly lion, in caramel catsuit and 60s mane, is sweetly camp, coming out with the line: “I’m proud to be a friend of Dorothy’s.” And Jeremy Sams’s direction is undaunted throughout. This show knows where it is going, as surely as if Dorothy had satnav to guide her home. Million Dollar Quartet focuses on 4 December 1956, when Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins were together at Sun Records, Memphis, Tennessee. This creates an opportunistic excuse for an almost non-stop performance of their hits. This jukebox musical plays so safe it ought to be dangerous, but a fresh cast, directed with pizzazz, by Eric Schaeffer, saves it. Ben Goddard, as Jerry Lee Lewis, is a sensation: manically musical. Michael Malarkey has an admirable stab at Elvis (an impossible undertaking). Robert Britton Lyons (the only cast member imported from the US) convinces as Carl Perkins. And Derek Hagen exactly catches Johnny Cash’s brooding quality. The “story” is held together by record producer/narrator Sam Phillips (a capable Bill Ward). I took one of my teenage sons along. He has had no experience of blue suede shoes, great balls of fire or of hound dogs – at least, not musically speaking. “The music was great,” he said. Tanika Gupta’s intrepid idea is to transpose Dickens’s Great Expectations into 1861 India. Sensibly, she keeps Memsahib Havisham (Lynn Farleigh) recognisable: an ancient bride-in-waiting but also daughter of an East India company trader. Pip (Tariq Jordan) is a likable lad who leaps out of the guava trees of his childhood into a challenging Calcutta adulthood as a nouveau riche English gentleman. Colin Richmond’s design attractively suggests an India of sunlight, silk and calico. But keep your expectations modest too: for all its promise, the surgery on the novel has been violent. Its staccato dialogue rings false. And, oddly enough, the abbreviations do not rescue the show from its longueurs. And the Rain Falls Down is conceived by talented theatre company Fevered Sleep (directed by David Harradine) and aimed at three- to four-year-olds. There is a cloud, like a bathmat, on the floor. Other clouds are pinned on a washing line. The show is, in case you couldn’t guess, about rain. It is beautifully simple and intermittently torrential. Two actors get drenched. The woman (Karina Garnett) adores it. The man (Carl Patrick) is a more cautious anorak-wearer. There is much umbrella innovation: little ones are equipped with see-through brollies and invited to splash about. Eventually there will be an umbrella rainbow. The audience, at the show I attended, split into land-lubbers and water babies. Several landlubbers were crying heartily not wanting to go over – let alone under – the rainbow.
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The Wizard of Oz stars Danielle Hope and Michael Crawford.
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March 7 2011, 5:17pm | Comments »
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The Wizard of Oz London Palladium
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The Wizard of Oz London Palladium
A great photo of the Wizard of Oz sign outside the London Palladium taken by Fizikal Rex / Dave Bond used here with permission.
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Wizard of Oz - London Palladium - with Danielle Hope & Michael Crawford
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The Wizard of Oz Crashes his Balloon
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Michael Crawford, The Wizard of Oz himself was the mystery guest on Chris Evans’ radio 1 show this morning. If you’re one of the few lucky people to have seen him earlier this week at the Palladium, he is truly marvellous in the Waizard role. Chris Evans asked Michael Crawford if anything has gone wrong in the previews so far, having started at the beginning of the week. Crawford said he has an interesting exit in a balloon which has caused some problems. One night a bit fell off it narrowly missing people on the stage but luckily they did see it coming and scattered, and then again last night he pushed the balloon in the wrong direction and it crashed into the set. Oops!
Michael Crawford and Danielle Hope
February 10 2011, 7:33am | Comments »
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Andrew talks The Wizard of Oz
http://wizardofozlondon.co.uk/310/andrew-talks-the-wizard-of-oz/
Well there wasn’t that much to see of Danielle Hope on the One Show it turned out in the end, but Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber told a few interesting anecdotes about the preparations for the first previews of The Wizard of Oz coming up in just about a week.
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Wicked Theatre Breaks after February 2011
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Good news for Rachel Tuckers fans, if you want to book theatre breaks to see Wicked after February 7th 2011, Rachel Tucker will still be Elphaba. The London production of Wicked is pleased to announce its entire new company to begin performances on Feb. 7: The new cast will star Rachel Tucker (Elphaba), Louise Dearman (Glinda), Mark Evans (Fiyero), Julie Legrand (Madame Morrible), Clive Carter (The Wizard), Julian Forsyth (Dr Dillamond), Zoë Rainey (Nessarose), Ben Stott (Boq), Nikki Davis- Jones (Standby Elphaba), Chloe Taylor (Standby Glinda), Gemma Atkins, Alex Louize Bird, Andrew Bryant, Gareth Chart, Joe Colasanti, Nicholas Collier, Aileen Donohoe, Emma Green, Antony Hansen, Jacqueline Hughes, Daniel Jones, Jasmine Kerr, Sophie Linder-Lee, Saori Oda, Sean Parkins, Soeli Parry, Michelle Pentecost, Paul Saunders, Charlotte Scott, Niall Sheehy, Tommy Sherlock, Thomas Sutcliffe, Sam Taylor, Jennifer Tierney, Hannah Toy and Matt Turner.
December 1 2010, 9:10am | Comments »
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West End Theatre Sales
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A consortium led by Michael Grade, the broadcast executive, has bought four of London’s West End theatres for £50m from Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group (RUG). Andrew Lloyd Webber announced: It has been a totally gut-wrenching decision for me to decide to sell the four theatres, however following my illness last year I was advised to reduce the debt in the family company. My commitment to composing, producing and theatre ownership remains as strong as ever. Michael Grade has family connections with the theatre. His father, Leslie Grade, was a theatrical agent , and his uncles were Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont, co-founder of theatre group Delfont Mackintosh Theatres. The four theatres involved in the sales are these: The Palace Theatre – currently playing Priscilla – Queen of the Desert The New London Theatre - currently playing War Horse The Cambridge Theatre - currently playing Chicago Her Majesty’s Theatre – The Phantom of the Opera The sale represents 4,900 theatre seats altogether. RUG retains ownership of larger theatres including The London Palladium – Soon to be the home of The Wizard of Oz The Theatre Royal Drury Lane – Currently showing Oliver!, soon Shrek the Musical 50 per cent stake in the Adelphi – currently home for the London production of Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webbers most recent new show. He also said: I am particularly proud that over the 25 years that I have owned the Palace I have been able to restore the magnificent auditorium and the exterior, thereby removing the huge neon advertising hoarding that defaced both the theatre and Cambridge Circus. I have agreed the purchase price be reduced by £5m to enable GradeLinnit to invest this sum in the theatres, principally in the Palace.
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October 28 2010, 6:18am | Comments »
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Carrie Sutton cast in The Wizard of Oz
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Actress Carrie Sutton has been cast in The Wizard of Oz with a contract up until early 2012 according to The Scunthorpe Telegraph . “I’m looking forward to working with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the first time and Michael Crawford who is playing the wizard. The London Palladium feels like my second home. The Wizard of Oz will be my third performance here and I have a contract until early 2012.” Carrie Sutton is currently in Sister Act and has been working with Sheila Hancock and Whoopi Goldberg at The London Palladium, the exact same theatre where The Wizard of Oz will open in 2011. She has also been in Cabaret, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Imagine This. Carrie has done a lot of chorus work and understudying lead roles so far in her career but what will be her role in The Wizard of Oz? If Hannah Waddigham is confirmed as the WIcked Witch then would probably leave Carrie the role of Glinda, the Good Witch.
Carrie Sutton is in Sister Act at the London Palladium
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October 1 2010, 7:48am | Comments »
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More Wizard of Oz Casting : Hannah Waddingham as Witch
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More news from the Wizard of Oz casting process is coming out, as yet unconfirmed, that Hannah Waddingham will play the Wicked Witch of The West. The news follows close after the official announcement just three days ago that Michael Crawford is to be the Wizard of Oz
Hannah Waddingham is best known for being the original Lady of The Lake in Spamalot for which she received an Olivier Award nomination and in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and many other shows including Grease.
Hannah Waddingham – Witch of The West
“I play the Witch” – Hannah Waddingham
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September 27 2010, 12:14pm | Comments »
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Andrew Lloyd Webber on the Michael Ball Show
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Andrew Lloyd Webber will be a guest on the Michael Ball Show on Friday September 10th. Michael Ball will be hosting an exclusive interview with Webber about Love Never Dies as well as his production of The Wizard of Oz.
Ramin Karimloo accompanying ALW, plays the role of The Phantom in the Adelphi Theatre production of Love Never Dies. The episode can be seen live on ITV1 on Friday September 10th at 3pm in the afternoon, or later on the ITV Player at : http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=the michael ball show Michael Ball and Andrew Lloyd Webber have worked together many time in the past, for example when Michael played Raoul in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London, and Alex in Aspects of Love at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London and on Broadway. Michael Ball DVDs
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September 9 2010, 4:08pm | Comments »
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New Season Theatre Breaks In London
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The first of a new season of plays and musicals for theatre breaks in London opened last night at the Noel Coward theatre in London’s St Martin’s Lane. The play is called “Deathtrap” and it’s a revival of a comedy thriller that was hugely successful on Broadway in the 1970s and 1980s. Later in the autumn there will quite a few new plays being staged in and around London’s West End and there are some remarkable events on the musicals scene as well. For example, you may have heard that Whoopi Goldberg was sadly forced to abandon Sister Act recently due ultimately to a bereavement. Well she’s back for five nights later in October, so if you’ve always fancied seeing Whoopi live on the West End Stage then you could organise theatre breaks in London around those dates. Hang on, I’ll go get them for you … “Goldberg, who left the musical after learning that her mother had fallen ill in the US, will star in five shows between October 22 and October 25 at the London Palladium”. After those dates, the theatre will be dark in preparation for The Wizard of Oz. The Noel Coward Theatre in London
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Rachel Tucker “The Wizard And I”
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Rachel Tucker (a former Nancy contender from I’d do Anything) is currently starring as Elphaba the wicked witch in Wicked The Musical, which is a prequel to The Wizard of OZ. Here’s Rachel Tucker singing “The Wizard and I” at the “West End Live 2010″ festival in London’s Leicester Square last weekend:
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Rachel Tucker – The Wizard and I
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