Crazy for You digital programme | Chichester Festival Theatre | Festival 2022

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Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Book by Ken Ludwig Co-conception by Ken Ludwig and Mike Ockrent Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and John McGowan Direction and Choreography by Susan Stroman

WELCOME

KATHY BOURNE AND DANIEL EVANS PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAMUS RYAN

FESTIVAL 2022

There have been several royal visits to the Festival Theatre over the past 60 years, but this year, true Broadway royalty has come to Chichester.

We couldn’t be more thrilled that this new production of Crazy for You has direction and choreography by the great Susan Stroman, winner of five Tony and two Olivier Awards for productions including The Producers, Contact and The Scottsboro Boys.

Therefore, it’s an enormous pleasure to welcome you to this performance.

While CFT marks its 60th anniversary, this joyous musical is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its New York debut. David Benedict charts its fascinating genesis in this programme.

Incorporating some of the most beloved Gershwin standards, its witty book and dialogue are written by Ken Ludwig,

who wrote this season’s Murder on the Orient Express and is the author of the Tony Award-winning Lend Me a Tenor.

It is also a particular joy to welcome back Charlie Stemp. In 2016, his performance as Kipps in Half A Sixpence was greeted by the kind of rapturous ‘star is born’ acclaim that is usually the stuff of fiction rather than fact. He went on to star on Broadway and in the West End, so it’s wonderful that he’s back to play Bobby Child, alongside Carly Anderson who makes a very welcome Chichester debut as Polly Baker. They lead an outstanding company.

There are two further musicals to come this season: Local Hero, based on the Bill Forsyth film with music by Mark Knopfler (formerly of Dire Straits), and our new family musical The Famous Five.

We hope you enjoy this performance, and to see you again soon.

Executive Director Kathy Bourne

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Artistic Director Daniel Evans

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LOCAL HERO Book by David Greig, Music & Lyrics by Mark Knopfler Based on the Bill Forsyth film CFT Artistic Director Daniel Evans directs a new musical version of this funny and enchanting story, featuring new songs by the legendary Mark Knopfler (formerly of Dire Straits).

MINERVA THEATRE 8 October – 19 November #LocalHero

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THE FAMOUS FIVE A NEW MUSICAL

Music & Lyrics by Theo Jamieson, Book by Elinor Cook Based on the books by Enid Blyton The Famous Five go on a daring mission with the future of the planet at stake!

An exciting and heart-warming family treat celebrating adventure, bravery and friendship, directed by Tamara Harvey.

A co-production with Theatr Clwyd

FESTIVAL THEATRE 21 October – 12 November #FamousFive

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LEARNING ON THE JOB Apprenticeships and Traineeships are an important feature of CFT’s work, not least because they support the training of the next generation of theatre makers and provide vital access routes into the creative industry.

WITHIN THE LAST SIX YEARS: • 10 Technical Theatre and two Education apprentices and trainees have successfully graduated from CFT and are all now working professionally in the industry.

• 12 Trainees and 42 Young Practitioners have trained in our LEAP department, with 89% opting for careers in the arts.

• Over 200 work experience opportunities have been offered to school students.

• In 2021, an alumni apprentice, Jesse Caie, won the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) Award for Emerging Excellence.

• We have also partnered for three years with the Association of Professional Lighting

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Designers (ALPD) to launch Lumiere: an early career development programme to offer professionals working in theatrical lighting a six-month placement at CFT, followed by six months with a freelance theatre lighting designer.

CURRENTLY: • We have a new Creative Learning and Participation Officer Apprenticeship (level 3); a Creative Venue Technician Apprenticeship (level 3); and a Creative Industries Production Manager Apprenticeship (level 7) which we believe to be the first of its kind in theatre.

• We also have one Trainee Producer; one Youth & Community Trainee, one Youth & Outreach Trainee and six young people undertaking the annual Young Practitioners Training programme.

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CFT APPRENTICES RYAN PANTLING & AMY CLAYTON

Lucy Guyver is Creative Industries Production Manager Apprentice: a two-year MA-equivalent course at CFT in partnership with Chichester College I did a degree in technical theatre and stage at CFT; next, I’m going to help him on the management at RADA. I wanted to go into South Pacific tour. production management, but didn’t have The apprenticeship is 80% working at CFT, enough experience. So this apprenticeship, 20% college work or self-training. Alongside for this very specific job, was exactly this is a lot of coursework, building up to my what I needed. end-point assessment for which I have to The production manager oversees all the complete a big project and give a presentation physical and technical aspects of getting a on why I did it the way I did, and present production ready for the stage, making sure my portfolio. the set is built and every department has the This course is unique; it’s the first in the time they need to create the vision on stage. country. don’t know where I Alecky Blythe’s engrossing new verbatim playI genuinely tells the stories of a generation.

You have to keepOften everyone happy!

Budgets would be if I hadn’t found it.

To be good too extraordinary to be fiction, Daniel Evans directs this funny aand and scheduling are the moving other key aspects. production manager, you need a lot of play in a co-production with the National Theatre.

CFT has given me opportunities to be experience; it’s hard to get into and it’s still mentored by professionals. I’ve achieved male-dominated field, although the MINERVAa very THEATRE a West End credit as Assistant Production number of women is growing. Without this – 14 May I doubt I would still be Manager on Cock at the Ambassador’s 22 Aprilapprenticeship, #OurGeneration Theatre, which came through their production considering it as a career. It’s been pretty manager, Ben Arkell, who works regularly life-changing.

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FOOD AND DRINK Enjoy delicious food and drink at our welcoming café and restaurant. Whether you’re having a meal before the show, simply relaxing with a coffee or powering up using our free Wi-Fi, we can’t wait to welcome you.

DINE BEFORE THE SHOW

GREAT COFFEE IN A GREAT LOCATION

Enjoy a contemporary British menu featuring local and seasonal ingredients, a selection of excellent wines and top-notch service in our stylish and award-winning restaurant The Brasserie – the closest restaurant to the Theatre.

A great spot for barista coffee, freshly made sandwiches, delicious cakes and a range of drinks. Our Café on the Park offers indoor and outdoor seating overlooking Oaklands Park and family friendly areas in our spacious foyer.

Open for Festival Theatre performances: matinees from 12pm and evening shows from 5pm. Also available for private hires and functions.

Open Monday to Friday from 10am and from 9am on Saturday so ParkRunners can stop by for much needed refreshment.

Visit cft.org.uk/eat, call 01243 782219 or email dining@cft.org.uk for opening times, reservations, menus and more.

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Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Book by Ken Ludwig Co-conception by Ken Ludwig and Mike Ockrent Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and John McGowan Direction and Choreography by Susan Stroman

XXX GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN, PUBLICITY SHOT FOR THE FILM GIRL CRAZY, 1932 IMAGE COURTESY OF THE EVERETT COLLECTION INC/ALAMY

CRAZY FOR

GERSHWIN From The Beverley Sisters to The Jackson 5 via the Trapp Family Singers, musical history is littered with singing siblings. But none of those wrote their own material. Brothers in composition, it turns out, are seriously rare. In the early 1960s, Walt Disney hired Robert and Richard Sherman who wrote heaps of scores for musicals as beloved as Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book. But the template was set four decades earlier by two brothers who made songwriting into a less-than-small family business: George and Ira Gershwin.

An extraordinary number are treasures of what is now known as The Great American Songbook, but that’s not the full story.

You opened to raves, won the Tony for Best Musical and went on to play another 1,621 performances over almost four years. But ages before the term entered theatreland’s lexicon, this runaway hit was actually what’s now known as a jukebox musical. And like all the best ones – Singin’ in the Rain which strung together songs with lyrics by Hollywood producer Arthur Freed, or Mamma Mia! which famously put Abba songs on stage – it took a musical back catalogue and gave it original, pulse-quickening dramatic life. But unlike those other two titles, when Crazy for You was created neither of the Gershwin brothers was there to help as they had both long since died: lyricist Ira in 1983 aged 86, George in 1937 at the tragically early age of 38.

Scholarly and calm Ira was born on New York’s Lower East Side in 1896. His brother Jacob, known as George, arrived two years

They could scarcely have been more famous. Within ten years of writing their very first song together they had four musicals running concurrently on Broadway. In the decade before sound arrived in the movies, when Broadway musical comedy was king, the brothers shared the throne. Their umpteen hit shows included Funny Face, Oh, Kay! and Of Thee I Sing which was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. But, ironically, their longest runner, Crazy for You TM, billed as ‘The New Gershwin Musical Comedy’, was the one musical they didn’t actually write.

Premiered at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre on 19 February 1992, the joy-filled Crazy for OH KAY! (JANE CARR, MICHAEL SIBERRY) AT CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE 1984 IMAGE BY REG WILSON

later. Temperamentally, they could not have been more different. George grew up with scattershot energy, racing around, unable to settle. Until, that is, he discovered music via a violin-prodigy schoolfriend. By 15, he had absorbed enough from piano teachers to quit school for a job as a song-plugger, playing at a Tin Pan Alley music publishing house promoting songs. His weekly wage was $15.

Ira was earning the same, as a cashier at the Lafayette Baths.

George almost immediately began writing with Ira supplying lyrics. Their first proper song, ‘The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)’, made it to Broadway on 24 October 1918... but the star singer soon ditched it. Exactly a year later, George’s song ‘Swanee’ with lyrics by Irving Caesar appeared in the show, Demi-Tasse.

Al Jolson took a fancy to it and recorded it in 1920 giving 21-year-old George $10,000 royalties for its first year’s sales alone.

Ira summed up his job as ‘fitting words mosaically to music already composed’. That’s typical of Ira’s modesty. But George constantly looked to his brother for approval and would not stop reworking until Ira was happy. All that rewriting resulted in a string of shows, a tiny handful of movies and more than 400 songs.

An extraordinary number are treasures of

what is now known as The Great American Songbook, but that’s not the full story.

Take their enduring, endearing songs ‘Fascinating Rhythm’, ‘I’ve Got a Crush on You’ and ‘The Man I Love’. The first is from Lady, Be Good!, the second from Treasure Girl, while the third was cut from Lady, Be Good during its pre-Broadway try-out, then inserted as ‘The Girl I Love’ into Strike Up the Band which never made it to Broadway, then put into Rosalie before, again, being cut before opening night.

Not only are all those shows now longforgotten, the chances of modern audiences ever seeing them are zero.

Before Rodgers and Hammerstein changed everything in 1943 with Oklahoma!, the first musical in which character and sustained drama dictated music and lyrics, musicals were slight, fluffy confections for which songs were added and subtracted at the whim of producers and stars. Stories were more a set of standard situations than proper plot. They featured stock characters with balloons for brains and, with vast casts of leggy showgirls, they were lavish entertainments with no interest in drama. The only way to revive them now is to completely rewrite them. Enter Ken Ludwig.

In February 1991, American dramatist Ludwig was riding high with his first Broadway smash, the farcical comedy Lend Me a Tenor.

Back home in Washington, he received a call out of the blue from a first-time producer, Texan businessman Roger Horchow, who announced that he had acquired the rights to the Gershwins’ back catalogue and that Ludwig was the man to write a new Gershwin musical.

To keep the Gershwins alive in this act of recreation, Ken Ludwig realised he needed to be unfaithful to the letter of the show but to hold steadfastly to its spirit.

POSTER FOR THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY PRODUCTION OF GIRL CRAZY, 1930

Despite the fact that Ludwig had studied music and composition, he told Horchow he didn’t know how to write a musical and that he regarded himself strictly as a playwright.

Not only did he turn him down, he pointed him in the direction of Wendy Wasserstein (The Sisters Rosensweig) and Terrence McNally (Master Class), two playwrights he thought much more suitable.

A week later, the determined Horchow was back on the phone. ‘He told me, “I think you’re making a mistake. How ‘bout I fly down to Washington and I’ll take you to lunch?”’ By the end of that lunch, Ludwig was on board.

Ludwig fully understood that making a Gershwin musical work now didn’t mean a script polish, it needed a total revamp. But, nudged by Horchow, he read the script of their 1930 hit Girl Crazy which had been conceived as a vehicle for vaudeville star Bert Lahr (who had turned it down) but which opened with new movie sensation Ginger Rogers and, making her Broadway debut with a voice just this side of a fire-alarm, Ethel Merman.

Although Ludwig realised the show was populated by stereotypes with a flimsy script of little more than vaudeville-style sketches, he liked the basic idea, setting and milieu, not to mention the fact that the score contained the highest number of well-known hits, not least ‘Embraceable You’, ‘But Not For Me’ and ‘I Got Rhythm’.

He then set about looking for songs that are not just memorable but could tell the story. ‘You want the songs to take as much weight of the story as possible to make them feel integrated and necessary.’

To keep the Gershwins alive in this act of recreation, he realised he needed to be unfaithful to the letter of the show but to hold steadfastly to its spirit. With that as his guide, he kept the Girl Crazy plot of a New Yorker going West to a hick town in nowheresville Nevada, followed by a clutch of New Yorkers arriving to play at being country types. That allowed him to use the song ‘Could You Use Me’ which talks about cowpokes and being a fish out of water, and ‘Bidin’ My Time’ which has a strong Western feel. ‘It lodges the show’s sense of place.’

KEN LUDWIG IMAGE BY JOHAN PERSSON

In the eighties, dance, with rare exceptions, had vanished from musicals.

Crazy for You TM singlehandedly brought it back centre stage, thanks to Susan Stroman.

Ultimately, five of the Girl Crazy songs made the final cut. The rest, in pre-internet 1992, came from scouring record stores like Tower Records on Lower Broadway for recordings of every Gershwin song he could lay his hands on.

He tried and tried to include ‘Love is Here to Stay’ but couldn’t find a strong enough way to work it into the plot. He even had to jettison the title song because it held up the action, but he remains particularly proud of including relatively unknown songs like ‘Naughty Baby’ which he only knew via a ‘sexy’ cover version by Maureen McGovern. ‘I was determined to get that in.’

With British director Mike Ockrent on board, the next vital hire was the choreographer. In the eighties, dance, with rare exceptions, had vanished from musicals. Crazy for You singlehandedly brought it roaring back centre stage, thanks to Susan Stroman.

Now directing this new Chichester production, Stroman has never lost affection for the original. She hadn’t worked with Ockrent before but, luckily, had not one but two ideal calling cards for everyone to watch to see if she was the right fit for this grand-scale, dance-driven, romantic comedy musical. She had co-created an off-Broadway revue of songs

by Kander and Ebb, And the World Goes Round, and had just choreographed Liza Minnelli’s concert show at Radio City Music Hall. The comedy of the former and, to use her word, the ‘extravaganza’ of the latter convinced them.

‘Mike called and we had breakfast. I love Gershwin. My father was a marvellous piano player and played American standards like Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Cole Porter so it was in my wheelhouse: I knew every song’.

Not only that, the 1930s setting appealed to her as a choreographer who deals strongly

in story as it was an era filled with all kinds of dance that she could use to enhance situation and character – from tap to ballroom, ballet and swing. ‘It was rich with opportunities including the difference between sophisticated New York City choreography and different styles for dancers out West with clogs and so on.’

Musicals, notoriously, aren’t so much written as rewritten, but the creative process for Crazy for You was not only incredibly fast – gestating most musicals takes years, this show happened in less than one – but relatively painless. Until the final run-through in the rehearsal studios at 890 Broadway.

‘At the very end we were all elated. Then Mike pulled us all to one side and said, “The second act doesn’t work: we have to rethink it.”

The next day, on the Amtrak train to Washington DC for the December out-of-town try-out, Ken, music director Paul Gemignani, Mike and I sat

THE ORIGINAL CREATIVE TEAM OF CRAZY FOR YOU AT THE HOME OF ROGER HORCHOW, PRODUCER. GERSHWIN HIMSELF PLAYED THAT PIANO. SHARON PETERSON, WILLIAM IVEY LONG, MIKE OCKRENT, CHRIS PETERSON, SUSAN STROMAN, CAROLYN HORCHOW, PAUL GEMIGNANI, BH BARRY, ROBIN WAGNER, ROGER HORCHOW. IMAGE COURTESY OF SUSAN STROMAN

in the bar car and rewrote the whole second act.’

An entire ballet sequence using $150,000 worth of William Ivey Long costumes was scrapped. Out went the song ‘By Strauss’, in came ‘Stiff Upper Lip’, and by the time they reached Washington ‘the second act was re-done and it absolutely saved the show’.

Stroman insists the show has one final crucial component, the unsung hero that is the late Peter Howard, the dance arranger.

‘A storyteller with the music, he helped me open it up for the dance.’

It’s a job no-one outside the industry knows.

‘I Got Rhythm’ is a showtune written, as was standard, as a 32-bar song. In Stroman and Howard’s hands, with whole sections of the song extended, arranged and specifically orchestrated for the choreography, it runs just shy of eight minutes.

‘The role of the dance arranger is to make it seem like the composer wrote the whole thing and Peter’s arrangements support the

choreography of Crazy for You to a T. If the dancers leap into the air, so does the orchestra; if the dancers spin, so does the orchestra. In ‘Shall We Dance’, when I want Bobby and Polly to chase each other, I play it in a fast two beats in a bar; when I want them to be coy and shy with each other, I play it as a soft-shoe; when I want them to fall in love, I play it in waltz time.

Manipulating the time signature supports the storytelling and heightens the emotions of the audience.’

In the words of the blissful first act finale when Howard’s dynamite arrangement meshes with Stroman’s riotous choreography for Ludwig and Ockrent’s vision and everything comes together in ecstasy, it’s impossible not to agree with the last line of the Gershwins’ song, ‘Who could ask for anything more?’. © DAVID BENEDICT, 2022

Writer and broadcaster David Benedict is the London theatre critic for Variety and weekly columnist for The Stage. He is writing the authorised biography of Stephen Sondheim.

FRED ASTAIRE, GEORGE GERSHWIN AND IRA GERSHWIN ON THE SET OF SHALL WE DANCE, 1937 IMAGE COURTESY OF THE EVERETT COLLECTION INC/ALAMY

‘Put on your dancing shoes, MUSICALS ACROSS THE DECADES AT CFT Spectacular musicals are now synonymous with Chichester in many people’s minds, so it may be startling to learn that not a single full-length musical was staged in the first 10 years of the Theatre’s existence until The Beggar’s Opera in 1972. The following year saw the premiere of a musical version of Peter Ustinov’s R Loves J ; its cool reception (‘precious little wit, unmemorable music’ sniffed The Stage) was possibly the reason that, apart from the 1977 musical ‘review’ In Order of Appearance, Chichester didn’t stray into musical territory again until 1981, which brought two more premieres: The Mitford Girls, written by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin with music

by Peter Greenwell, and the Crazy Gang hit Underneath the Arches.

Throughout the 1980s and 90s, musicals were intermittent rather than regular, though ranging from Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to Sondheim and Kander & Ebb. But from the mid-2000s, the musical established itself as the centrepiece of CFT’s summer. To date, 57 musicals have been staged during the Festival seasons (only one, Oklahoma!, more than once); neatly, this 60th anniversary season – with Crazy for You, Local Hero and The Famous Five – will bring the total to 60.

Add the highly accomplished Youth Theatre shows, which in recent years have included full scale musical productions of The Wizard of Oz and Pinocchio, and that number grows again.

It’s not hard to understand why: musicals tend to appeal to all generations. Contrary to widespread belief that young people only want edgy fare, more Prologue tickets for ages 16-30 are sold for the musicals than anything else. But ‘musical’ is as all-embracing a term as ‘play’; they differ vastly in style and content.

Definitive star performances and exhilarating ensembles; world premieres, beloved classics and collector’s items; tackling serious themes or offering sparkling escapism – CFT’s musicals are a joyous reflection of the diversity of musical theatre itself.

BEST OF BRITISH The Beggar’s Opera

1972

By John Gay

Millicent Martin, John Neville, Angela Richards

Underneath the Arches

1981

By Patrick Garland, Brian Glanville & Roy Hudd Chesney Allen, Roy Hudd

Born Again

1990 Music by Jason Carr, libretto by Julian Barry & Peter Hall Mandy Patinkin

Love Story

2010 Erich Segal, music by Howard Goodall, book by Stephen Clark, lyrics by Stephen Clark & Howard Goodall Michael Xavier, Emma Williams

Half A Sixpence

2016 Based on the HG Wells novel Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul, original musical by Beverley Cross and David Heneker, book by Julian Fellowes, new music & lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, original songs David Heneker, co-creator Cameron Mackintosh Charlie Stemp and Company

Me and My Girl

2018 Book & lyrics by L Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber, book revised by Stephen Fry with contributions by Mike Ockrent, music

by Noel Gay Alex Young and Company

Flowers for Mrs Harris

2018 Based on the novel by Paul Gallico, book

by Rachel Wagstaff, music & lyrics

by Richard Taylor Clare Burt, Claire Machin

Pinocchio

2020 A new adaptation by Anna Ledwich, music

by Tom Brady, from the original novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Chichester Festival Youth Theatre

watch your spirits climb…’

IMAGES BY JOHN TIMBERS, REG WILSON, JOHN HAYNES, MANUEL HARLAN, JOHAN PERSSON

THE M IN ER VA : UP C LO SE A ND P E R SO N AL 70 Girls 70

1990 Book by David Thompson & Norman L Martin, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, based on Breath of Spring by Peter Cole, adapted by Joe Masteroff Dora Bryan and Company

Valentine’s Day 1991

Book adapted by Benny Green & David William, lyrics by Benny Green, music by Denis King

Caroline, Or Change

2017 Book & lyrics by Tony Kushner, music by Jeanine Tesori Sharon D Clarke, Abiona Omonua

This Is My Family

2019

A musical by Tim Firth

James Nesbitt, Scott Folan, Kirsty MacLaren, Clare Burt

Gemma Lowy, Robert Hands

Song of Singapore

1998 Book by Alan Katz, Erik Frandsen, Robert Hipkens, Michael Garin & Paula Lockheart, music & lyrics by Erik Frandsen, Robert Hipkens, Michael Garin & Paula Lockheart Issy van Randwyck

Pal Joey

2000 Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, book by John O’Hara, based on his series of short stories in the New Yorker Susannah Fellows, Martin Crewes and Company

Funny Girl

2008 Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill, book by Isobel Lennart Mark Umbers, Samantha Spiro

The Pajama Game

2013 Words & music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell, based on Bissell’s novel 7 ½ Cents Joanna Riding, Hadley Fraser and Company

Travels with My Aunt

2016 Based on the novel by Graham Greene, book by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, music by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe Patricia Hodge

IMAGES BY JOHN HAYNES, TRISTRAM KENTON, CATHERINE ASHMORE, MARC BRENNER, JOHAN PERSSON

AMERICAN CL ASSICS A Little Night Music

1989 Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler The Company

Cabaret

2002 Book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, based on the play by John van Druten & stories by Christopher Isherwood The Company

Singin’ in the Rain

2011 Based on the MGM film screenplay, adaptation

by Betty Comden & Adolph Green, songs

by Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed Adam Cooper

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2011

Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler, from an adaptation

by Harold Prince, original orchestrations

by Jonathan Tunick

Fiddler on the Roof

2017 Based on the Sholem Aleichem Stories by special permission of Arnold Perl, Book by Joseph Stein, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics

by Sheldon Harnick Omid Djalili, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Company

Oklahoma!

2019 Music by Richard Rodgers, book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs, original choreography by Agnes de Mille Amara Okereke, Hyoie O’Grady and Company

South Pacific

2021 Music by Richard Rodgers, book & lyrics

by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A Michener Sera Maehara and Company

Michael Ball, Imelda Staunton

Kiss Me, Kate

2012 Music & lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Sam & Bella Spewack, based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew Alex Bourne, Hannah Waddingham

Guys and Dolls

2014 Based on a story and characters of Damon Runyon, music & lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows Peter Polycarpou, Sophie Thompson, Jamie Parker, Clare Foster

Gypsy

2014 Book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Imelda Staunton

IMAGES BY MICHAEL LE POER TRENCH, CLIVE BARDA, MANUEL HARLAN, CATHERINE ASHMORE, JOHAN PERSSON

CHICHESTER AND ME As CFT celebrates its 60th anniversary, theatre critic and journalist Fiona Mountford gives a personal view My first visit to Chichester was certainly memorable and very nearly for entirely the wrong reasons. It was – the date stays indelibly with me – 21 May 2002 and I, an eager-toimpress 25-year-old, was a mere one day into my new job as Theatre Critic at the London Evening Standard. When I was informed by my fearsome colleague Nicholas de Jongh that I would be reviewing at Chichester that evening, I had only the vaguest idea where in the country Chichester might be. I dutifully set out in my little car and, some hours later, found myself HALF A SIXPENCE IMAGE BY MANUEL HARLAN

stuck down a muddy farm track behind a tractor. Panic levels spiralled. Was this a sackable offence? Imagine my relief when, with minutes to spare before curtain-up for The Front Page, I finally swept into the magnificent surroundings of Oaklands Park and caught my first glimpse of the stately Festival Theatre. Chichester and I, I decided in the mellow evening light, were going to be the best of friends.

And so, gloriously, it has proved. When I left the Standard 17 years later, I calculated

that I had driven more than 20,000 miles to review productions there, braving the worst that seemingly interminable roadworks on the M25 and M23 could throw at me. That magic moment of sudden peace upon entering the grounds has never ceased to enchant and fill me with an anticipatory tingle of artistic treats ahead. The interplay of light and falling shadows on the statues on the concourse is constantly beguiling, both pre- and postshow. When I interviewed architect Steve Tompkins in 2014 about his revamp of the

Festival Theatre, he hymned Chichester as a ‘pavilion in the park, with a seaside feeling about it’ and that seemed to sum it up perfectly.

My visits have spanned the highly distinctive reigns of four artistic leaderships, and it has been a pleasure and a privilege to watch the theatre grow in stature and confidence with each passing year. Fireworks to mark the start of one season during the era of the troika/trio/triumvirate – I had fun finding new synonyms to use in every review – of Martin Duncan, Ruth Mackenzie and Steven

Pimlott seemed a fitting statement of intent.

This was a theatre full of sparkle and indubitably on the rise, a venue that stepped up to take its rightful place on the national stage during Jonathan Church’s inspired decade at the helm. I reviewed the very first production of his tenure, Entertaining Angels with Penelope Keith, and there was a potent sense of possibility in the air that night, of a theatre that knew the future was its for the taking.

There have been a host of standout performances (and, of course a few duds, which shall remain nameless to protect the guilty).

The joyous musical Half A Sixpence was a delight in 2016, confirming once again Chichester’s growing reputation as a purveyor of quality entertainment that went on to receive

well-deserved West End transfers. Straight plays in the August slot in the Minerva have been notably high achieving – the 2015 production of Somerset Maugham’s For Services Rendered was a small and exquisite jewel. Yet the most memorable night of my Chichester life will forever be the opening of Rupert Goold’s game-changing production of Macbeth, with Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood, in 2007. The mood was hushed at the post-show party (I wasn’t on reviewing duties, in case you’re questioning my critical integrity) as the assembled guests processed the might of what they had just seen. This ground-breaking promise was followed up in 2009 by Goold’s production of Lucy Prebble’s Enron, an adventurously experimental show

THE FRONT PAGE, QUIZ, MACBETH, THE WATSONS, ENTERTAINING ANGELS IMAGES BY JOHAN PERSSON, MANUEL HARLAN, ROBERT DAY

that would go on to win multiple awards.

All of this, of course, has paved the way for the assurance of Daniel Evans’ current regime.

The repertoire grows more expansive year on year, always a sure sign of a venue flying high, with Noël Coward taking his place alongside Sarah Kane. An ever-wider range of shows and, crucially, practitioners entice theatre-lovers both longstanding and newly minted. James Graham’s lockdown television hit Quiz memorably had its world premiere in the Minerva in 2017, Laura Wade’s audacious Jane Austen reboot The Watsons followed a year later and bracingly fresh looks at classic musicals have attracted a nationwide following.

The Festival season tracks the passing of the year so elegantly, offering audiences a rich

sense of time lived fully and well. It starts in April, bursting into bud with the promise of spring and reaches full flower at the height of summer. The final productions come during the blazing of autumn colour, before the Youth Theatre takes over for the light-filled buzz of the Christmas show. There is a part of me that has been operating on Chichester time since May 2002. I remain forever grateful that the tractor finally moved to let me by.

FIONA MOUNTFORD

Fiona Mountford was Theatre Critic at the London Evening Standard, 2002-19.

CRAZY FOR YOU

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Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Book by Ken Ludwig Co-conception by Ken Ludwig and Mike Ockrent Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and John McGowan Originally produced on Broadway by Roger Horchow and Elizabeth Williams Original Broadway choreography by Susan Stroman

CAST Bobby Child Polly Baker Bela Zangler Irene Roth Lank Hawkins Everett Baker Lottie Child Eugene Fodor Patricia Fodor Tess Patsy Vera Sheila Elaine Mitzi Margie Louise Moose Sam Mingo Junior Wyatt Jimmy Custus Pete Billy Swings Swing / Dance Captain Swing Swing Swing Other roles played by members of the Company.

Charlie Stemp Carly Anderson Tom Edden Merryl Ansah Mathew Craig Don Gallagher Gay Soper Adrian Grove Jacqui Dubois Sadie-Jean Shirley Kate Parr Lila Anderson Evonnee Bentley-Holder Imogen Bowtell Laura Hills Ella Valentine Tara Yasmin Marc Akinfolarin Simon Anthony Craig Bartley Jason Battersby Kyle Cox Nicholas Duncan Nathan Elwick Matthew Malthouse Joshua Nkemdilim Nell Martin Bethan Downing Ryan Jupp Bradley Trevethan

Direction and Choreography Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Musical Director Sound Designer New Orchestrations Original Orchestrations New Arrangements Original Arrangements Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Designer Fight Directors Casting Director

Susan Stroman Beowulf Boritt William Ivey Long Ken Billington Alan Williams Kai Harada Doug Besterman and Mark Cumberland William David Brohn David Krane Peter Howard Campbell Young Associates Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown of Rc-Annie Ltd Jill Green CDG

Voice & Dialect Coach Associate Director/Choreographer Associate Choreographer Associate Set Designer Associate Lighting Designer Associate Sound Designer Assistant Director/Choreographer Assistant Musical Director Production Manager Associate Costume Designer & Supervisor Props Supervisor Company Manager Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Michaela Kennen Angelique Ilo Stacey Todd Holt Ben Davies Dale Driscoll Jay Jones Richard Pitt Luke Holman Patrick Molony Sabrina Cuniberto Marcus Hall Props Graham Michael Sally Hughes Lou Bann Georgina Pead Kornelia Zielniewska

The story takes place in New York and Deadrock, Nevada in the 1930s.

There will be one interval of 20 minutes.

ORCHESTRA Musical Director Flute / Piccolo / Clarinet / Alto Saxophone Flute / Clarinet / Soprano and Tenor Saxophones Clarinet / Bass Clarinet / Tenor and Baritone Saxophones Trumpet 1/ Piccolo Trumpet Trumpet 2 / Flugel French Horn Trombone / Bass Trombone Piano Keyboard / Assistant Musical Director Drums Percussion Double Bass Guitar / Banjo Violin 1 Violin 2 Cello Orchestral Management Copyist Keyboard Programmer

Alan Williams Rupert Widdows Paul Stevens Chris Caldwell Owain Harries Angela Whelan Carys Evans Barnaby Philpott Ros Jones Luke Holman Andy McGlasson James Turner Pete Hutchison Craig Oxley Millie Ashton Rosie Tompsett Verity Simmons Andy Barnwell for Musical Co-ordination Services Ltd Thomas Duchan for Hotstave Ltd Stuart Andrews

First performance of this new production of Crazy for You™ at Chichester Festival Theatre, 11 July 2022.

Crazy for You ™ is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC www.concordtheatricals.co.uk The worldwide copyrights in the music of George and Ira Gershwin™ for this presentation are licensed by the Gershwin Family.

GERSHWIN™ is a registered trademark of Gershwin Enterprises.

CRAZY FOR YOU™ is a registered trademark of Crazy For You Enterprises.

The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings or streams of this production is strictly prohibited, a violation of United Kingdom Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and an actionable offence.

Production credits: Script Associate: Ashley D Polasek; Set built and painted by Theatre Royal Plymouth; Periaktois built by Andy Hardy at A.H. Entertainment Engineering Ltd; Lifts built by Paul Craven at Adder Engineering Ltd and Genner Engineering; Automation supplied by Absolute Motion Control Ltd; Studio Director William Ivey Long Studios: Donald Sanders; Wigs Associate: Helen Keane; Costume Supervisor Assistant: Becky Livermore; Costume Makers: Katy Adeney, Applied Arts, Amanda Barrow, Cissi Burrows, Janet Christmas, Joan Coleman, Ian Costello, Mandy Dorrington, Maxine Feathers, Jane Grimshaw, Kingsley Hall, Nicola James, Rebecca James, Emma Jealouse, Linzi Park, Sally Payne, Phil Reynolds, Charlie Rungen, Janie Stephenson, Hilary Wili; Hats: Rizvi Millinery; Fabric printing and Dyeing: Nicola Killeen, Hatley Print; Stitchers: Helen Flower, Bryony Lemon; Embroidery: Jenny King; Alterations: Colette Tulley; Shoes: LaDuca London; Assistant Lighting Designer, New York: Aaron Porter; Lighting Programmer: Rob Halliday; Lighting Hires: PRG; Additional Sound Equipment: Autograph Sound; Transport Paul Mathew Transport.

With thanks to Annie Brewer and the team at Jerwood Space; Scott Bishop at Stroman Productions; Beth Chivers; Hollie Marshall; Daniel Thomas at Jaques Samuel Pianos Ltd.

Rehearsal photographs Johan Persson, Graham Michael Production photographs Johan Persson Programme Associate Fiona Richards Programme design Davina Chung

MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE Overture K-ra-zy for You I Can’t Be Bothered Now Bidin’ My Time Things Are Looking Up Could You Use Me Shall We Dance?

Entrance to Nevada Someone to Watch Over Me Slap That Bass Embraceable You Tonight’s The Night I Got Rhythm ACT TWO Entr'acte The Real American Folk Song is a Rag What Causes That?

Naughty Baby Stiff Upper Lip They Can’t Take That Away From Me But Not For Me Nice Work If You Can Get It Bidin’ My Time (French reprise) Things Are Looking Up (reprise) Finale

Orchestra Bobby Bobby, Follies Girls Moose, Mingo and Sam Bobby Bobby, Polly Bobby, Polly The Company Polly Bobby and Company Polly, Bobby The Company Polly and Company Orchestra Moose, Mingo, Sam and Company Bobby, Zangler Irene, Lank Eugene, Patricia, Polly, Bobby and Company Bobby Polly Bobby, Follies Girls Moose, Mingo, Sam Everett The Company

Supported by the Crazy for You TM Commissioning and Patrons Circles: Ben-Levi Family, Phil Berry, Chris Bourne, Caroline and Malcolm Butler, CS and M Chadha, Karen Coburn, Sheila and Steve Evans, Gary Fairhall, Themy Hamilton, Jammy Hoare, Gay and Colin Kaye, Roger Keyworth, John and Chrissie Lieurance, Elizabeth Miles, Patricia Sloane, Howard M Thompson, Ian and Alison Warren, Belinda Leathes, Penny Linnett, Peter and Sally Nicholson, William and Penny Plant, Lindy Riesco, David and Sophie Shalit, Greg and Katherine Slay, Bryan Warnett of St James’s Place, Ernest Yelf and all those who wish to remain anonymous.

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BIOGRAPHIES

CARLY ANDERSON CHARLIE STEMP

MARC AKINFOLARIN Moose Theatre includes Alan in Fat Friends (UK tour); Reverend Dobson in Anything Goes (Barbican); Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance (Palace Theatre); Adrian in The Last Ship (US tour and Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto); Sweeney Todd (London Coliseum, ENO); Spamilton, Bystander in Assassins and Buster in The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory); Zeke/Lion in The Wizard of Oz (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Sir Bedevere in Spamalot (Mercury Theatre Colchester and UK tour); Ed Bishop in Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall); Alf in Peter and the Starcatcher (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Porgy and Bess (Royal Danish Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (European and UK tours); Emmeline/Better/Shilling/Antimony in A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Rep); Alternate Clopin/Quasimodo in Notre Dame de Paris (Enzo Productions); Sparrow in Soul Man (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Reuben/One More Angel/Gospel in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Bill Kenwright Productions); Smokey Joe’s Café (Landor Theatre); Anything Goes, Lucky Stiff, The Wild Party (ArtsEd); Preacher in The Scoop Summer Season: Petite Rouge/Blood Wedding (Steam Industry).

Recordings include Chorus Director for A Shining Truth.

Trained at Arts Educational Schools.

CARLY ANDERSON Polly Baker Theatre includes Glinda in Wicked (international tour); Betty Schaefer (cover) in Sunset Boulevard (ENO); Kira in Xanadu (Southwark Playhouse); Gwen in Sunny Afternoon (Harold Pinter and Hampstead Theatre); Cunegonde (cover) in Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory); Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q (Charlotte Theatre Seoul); Eliza Doolittle (cover) in My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible); Nellie Forbush (cover) in South Pacific (UK tour and Barbican); Maria Von Trapp (cover) in The Sound of Music (UK tour).

Television includes Traces, Trust Me. Trained at The Dance School of Scotland and Arts Educational Schools.

LILA ANDERSON Vera Theatre includes The Thursford Christmas Spectacular (Thursford Collection); The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal Norwich); Anna in Spring Awakening, Chastity in Anything Goes, Move It, Do Your Thing and Time Flies (SLP College).

Trained at SLP College Leeds.

MERRYL ANSAH Irene Roth Theatre credits include Heathers (UK tour); The Lion King, A Christmas Carol (Lyceum Theatre); How I Learned to Swim (Jermyn Street Theatre); Black Women Dating White Men (The Drayton Arms Theatre/Hollywood Fringe Festival); Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Next Jessye Norman (Tristan Bates Theatre); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK and Ireland tour); The Other School (National Youth Music Theatre).

Recording credits include The Children’s Inquiry; Heathers (Original West End Cast); and Dear Evan Hansen (West End Virtual Choir).

Trained at the Royal Academy of Music.

Twitter @MerrylAnsah Instagram @MerrylAnsah SIMON ANTHONY Sam Theatre includes Archie/Bud/Alternate Clyde in Bonnie and Clyde (Drury Lane Theatre); Sailor Quartet in Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre); Schlomo Metzenbaum in Fame the Musical (UK Tour/West End/Wembley Troubadour); Will Parker in Oklahoma! (UK tour); Willie Conklin in Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre); Squirrel/Big in The Little Fir Tree (King’s Place London); Alpha’s Christmas Ball (The Dorchester); The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Crucible); 1st Cover Robbie Hart/ Glen Guglia in The Wedding Singer (UK tour/ Wembley Troubadour); Cosmo Brown in Singin’ in the Rain, Link Larkin in Hairspray (Gordon Craig Theatre); Dodo/Swing in Wonder.land (National Theatre/Théâtre du Châtelet Paris); ‘Shadow Dancer’ in Bugsy Malone (Curve Theatre Leicester); Jimmy in White Christmas (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Nathaniel in Kiss Me Kate (Royal Albert Hall/BBC Proms); Harry in Unsung (Orange Tree Theatre); Rags: The

TOM EDDEN CHARLIE STEMP CHARLIE STEMP CARLY ANDERSON

Musical in Concert (Lyric Theatre); Cinderella (Malvern Festival Theatre); Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (ArtsEd).

Concerts include The Olivier Awards 2013 and 2014 and Kerry Ellis in Concert with Brian May (London Palladium).

Recordings include Kerry Ellis and songs from Wonder.land; live recordings include Fame the Musical (London Peacock Theatre); Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre); Kiss Me Kate (Royal Albert Hall).

Trained at Arts Educational Schools.

CRAIG BARTLEY Mingo Theatre credits in the UK include 42nd Street (original production), Me and My Girl, Mack & Mabel, La Cage aux Folles, Man of La Mancha, Grease.

Credits in the US include Follies Royale (Broadway), 42nd Street, Song and Dance (tours), Smile (Town Hall Theatre NY).

ADRIAN GROVE DON GALLAGHER JACQUI DUBOIS

Television includes The Royal Variety Performance, Grange Hill, Les Dennis & Dustin Gee Show, The Price Is Right, Tales Out of School, CATS Eyes, EastEnders.

Films include Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life As backing vocalist he has toured with Gladys Knight, Tom Jones, Jennifer Holliday, Tina Turner, Elton John and Tommy Tune.

He has directed and choreographed many productions including the International Dance Proms, and ballets and operas including La Traviata, Aïda, Madame Butterfly and La Bohème.

He is a professional adjudicator for worldwide festivals and Principal of Starquest Performers College.

Awards include Listeners Choice Award for his podcast In the House Seats and nominations for outstanding choreography.

Trained at the Jackie Lynn Dance Studios Kent and Rambert School. www.craigbartley.com

MERRYL ANSAH MATHEW CRAIG | TOM EDDEN MERRYL ANSAH CHARLIE STEMP GAY SOPER

JASON BATTERSBY Junior Theatre includes Lead Shadow in Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse). Credits as a child include Macbeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); The Nutcracker (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Waiting for Godot (UK tour); Oliver!

(UK tour/RUG), and numerous productions for Youth Music Theatre UK and National Youth Music Theatre, including Whistle Down the Wind.

He is a singer-songwriter-producer, with a number of songs played on BBC Introducing and has performed at The National Foodies Festivals, supporting other established bands.

Trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and The Royal Ballet School (Associates).

EVONNEE BENTLEY-HOLDER Sheila Theatre includes Dance Captain/Mimi in Guys and Dolls (Talawa/Royal Exchange Theatre); Ensemble and Sophie the Seal in Doctor Dolittle (UK tour); Jack and the Beanstalk (Dartford Orchard Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal York); Hildergaard in KVN Dance Company’s Coppelia (Cockpit Theatre).

Television and films include Bridgerton seasons 1 and 2, Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Indiana Jones 5, Anansi Boys, Four Quartets.

Trained at Bird College.

Instagram @evoneebh IMOGEN BOWTELL Elaine Theatre includes White Christmas (UK tour).

Credits whilst training include Dancer in Wars (Orchard Theatre Dartford); Lead Vocalist in The Edinburgh Seven, Mimi in Guys and Dolls (Doreen Bird Foundation Theatre).

Trained at Bird College.

Instagram @imogenbowtell KYLE COX Wyatt Theatre includes Tyllis in Lysistrata Jones, Tomi in Crabs, Mr Krabs in The Spongebob Musical, An Intimate Evening with Kristen Chenoweth, Seasons of Love (Theatre Café); Dancer in

Cowboys and Angels.

Trained at Arts Educational Schools.

MATHEW CRAIG Lank Hawkins Theatre includes Narrator in Blood Brothers (UK tour); George in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (Menier Chocolate Factory); Russell in St. Anne Comes Home (Covent Garden Festival); Rebel Leader in We Will Rock You (UK tour and Dominion Theatre); The Fantasticks (Duchess Theatre); A Little House Music (Arts Theatre); Imagine This (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Show Boat (Royal Albert Hall); Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UKTT); Miss Saigon (Cameron Mackintosh); Beauty and the Beast (original tour/Disney Theatrical); Debienne in The Phantom of the Opera (UK tour); Davy Jones in Peter Pan, Aspects of Love (Theatre Royal Lincoln).

Television includes Cast, Kombat Opera: Spouse Change, Manorama: Drinking in Nottingham, Nuts and Bolts.

Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

BETHAN DOWNING Swing Theatre includes Cinderella (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre and Newcastle Theatre Royal); Friday Night is Music Night (BBC); Some Enchanted Evening (Cadogan Hall).

Trained at Arts Educational Schools.

JACQUI DUBOIS Patricia Fodor Previously at Chichester Lady Battersby in Me and My Girl, Nettie Fowler in Carousel (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes Mrs Hobday in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Disney/UK tour); Burrage in The Rat Trap (Site Specific/Guildhall Art Gallery); Simone/Angie in On Hostile Ground (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Blindness and Seeing, Europeana, The Button Moulder in Peer Gynt (Projekt Europa/RSC); Palamena Madagascar in Casino Royale (Secret Cinema); Fly the Flag (Clod Ensemble/Fuel/Somerset House); Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (international, UK & Ireland tours); The Permanent Way (The Vaults);

SIMON ANTHONY NATHAN ELWICK JASON BATTERSBY NICHOLAS DUNCAN RYAN JUPP BRADLEY TREVETHAN | MARC AKINFOLARIN LAURA HILLS ELLA VALENTINE IMOGEN BOWTELL TARA YASMIN LILA ANDERSON SADIE-JEAN SHIRLEY | BETHAN DOWNING | EVONNEE BENTLEY-HOLDER THE COMPANY

Beginners (Unicorn Theatre); People, Places and Things (National Theatre/West End/USA); Fela! (National Theatre/USA); Emil and The Detectives (National Theatre); The Lion King, Rent, The Harder They Come (and USA), Fame, The Full Monty, Sophisticated Ladies, All You Need is Love, Children of Eden (all West End); Kate Bush’s Before The Dawn (Hammersmith Apollo); The Amen Corner (Tricycle); Blues in the Night (Chester/Leicester/Hornchurch); Little Shop of Horrors (London Bubble/Leicester); Mary Stuart and Rehab: The Musical (Union); The Realness (Big House); Looking for Obama (Bristol); The Wizard of Oz (Leicester); Anansi Steals the Wind (Talawa); Dr Livingstone I Presume (Riverside Hammersmith); JFK and Rent (Olympia Dublin); Sweet Lorraine (Oxford); The Boys from Syracuse (Sheffield); The Cabaret of Dr Caligari and Peacemaker (London Bubble); Show Boat (Austria, Klagenfurt).

Television and Film includes Hedda, Bye Bye Inkhead, Holby City, Pigsty.

Radio includes Tokolosh.

As a vocalist Jacqui has worked with various artists including Kate Bush, Nomad, Puff Daddy, Latoya Jackson, T.S.O.S.F, Jam and Spoon, Bass X, Dance to Trance, Digital Orgasm.

Trained at London Studio Centre.

TOM EDDEN Bela Zangler Tom originated the role of Alfie in One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre, Adelphi & Theatre Royal Haymarket West End, Music Box Theatre New York: Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Tony Award and Critics’ Circle Award nominations).

Theatre also includes Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse & Pinter Theatres West End, Harvey Theatre New York), Pinter 3 (Pinter Theatre), Faustus (Duke of York’s), all for the Jamie Lloyd Company; Fagin in Oliver! (Sheffield Crucible: UK Theatre Award nomination Best Actor in a Musical); Thénadier in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); Mr Wormwood in Matilda (Cambridge Theatre); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse); Amadeus (National Theatre); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre); Measure for Measure (Young Vic); A Little Hotel on the Side (Theatre Royal Bath); Hamlet, Summer Lightning, Betrayal (Royal Theatre Northampton).

Television includes Singapore Grip, Starstruck, The Scandalous Lady W, Doctor Who. Films include Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Cinderella, Mr Turner.

NICHOLAS DUNCAN Jimmy Previously at Chichester, Fischel in Fiddler on the Roof (Festival Theatre), Travels with My Aunt (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre credits include Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre); The Light in the Piazza (Southbank Centre London, Los Angeles Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago); Jim in White Christmas (Curve Leicester); My Fair Lady (Teatro San Carlo and Teatro Massimo); Munkastrap in Cats (RCCL); Thalia in Xanadu (Southwark Playhouse); Matilda (Cambridge Theatre/RSC); Princeton/ Rod in Avenue Q (Seoul); Oliver!, Avenue Q (UK tours); Ultimate Broadway (Shanghai Culture Square Theatre); Fame (Ireland tour); Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales); The Ripper (New Players Theatre).

Television includes Galavant.

Film includes Cinderella.

NATHAN ELWICK Custus Theatre includes Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd (English Theatre Frankfurt); Genie in Aladdin (Evolution Productions); Boot in Salad Days (RDWW); Featured Ensemble/Cover Monster in Young Frankenstein (Fiery Angel); Wishee Washee in Aladdin (Nottingham Playhouse); The Glenn Miller Story (Bill Kenwright); Dan in Wonderful Town, Gomez in The Addams Family (ArtsEd).

Television includes The Olivier Awards.

Radio includes Friday Night is Music Night.

Trained at Arts Educational Schools.

DON GALLAGHER Everett Baker Theatre includes Jafar in Aladdin, Bernadette in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Roger de Bris in The Producers, Pierre Guerre in Martin Guerre, Javert in Les Misérables (all West End); Lord Scrumptious/Baron Bomburst in Chitty

Chitty Bang Bang (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Kendrick/Frank in The Absence of War (Headlong); Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Royal Exchange); Achille Blond in The Magistrate, Iofur Raknison in His Dark Materials, Alastair Campbell in Stuff Happens (National Theatre); Haslam in Back to Methuselah, Warwick/Blunt in Henry V Parts 1&2, Prince of Ursino in Painter of Dishonour, James Tyrrell in Richard III, Archidamus/ Paulina’s Steward in The Winter’s Tale (RSC); Cleg in Cosmonaut’s Last Message (Tron Theatre Glasgow).

Television includes Ladhood, Killing Eve, Shetland, A Very British Scandal, McDonald and Dodds, The English Game, Endeavour, The Crown, Poldark, Victoria, Inspector George Gently, The Dumping Ground, Agatha Raisin, Doctors, Valentine Kiss, The Best Possible Taste, Casualty, Miss Marple, Poirot, The Changeling, Ballet Shoes, Hancock and Joan, Lewis, 10 Days to D-Day, Bad Girls, A&E, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Medical Ethics, Body Guards, Victoria and Albert.

Films include London Road, Melody, The Bank Job. ADRIAN GROVE Eugene Fodor Previously at Chichester, Commander Harbison in South Pacific (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes Follies, Medea, Bent (staged reading), Wonder.land (National Theatre); Blue Remembered Hills (Northern Stage); Stepping Out, The Night Before Christmas, A Little of What You Fancy, Robin Hood (Salisbury Playhouse); Merrily We Roll Along (Theatr Clywd); Cats (Kilworth House); Danger: Memory (Jermyn Street); Dying Breed (Bristol Theatre Royal); A Month in the Country (Tobacco Factory); Never Not Once (The Park Theatre); Bonnie & Clyde (Drury Lane); Les Misérables (UK tour); Starlight Express (Victoria Apollo); Saturday Night Fever (1st UK tour).

Television includes Trigger Point, Doctors, 24: Live Another Day, Hollyoaks, Casualty, Doctors.

Radio includes The Archers, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Deep Blue Sea, Robinson Crusoe, The Admiral Crichton, Falco Poseidon’s Gold,

Rodaguna, Ambridge Extra.

Films include Golden Years, The Flying Scotsman, Baar Baar Dekho.

Adrian has recorded multiple audiobooks, and has appeared many times on the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, including the Rodgers & Hammerstein Prom and My Fair Lady Prom.

Trained at Bristol Old Vic. LAURA HILLS Mitzi Theatre includes Dance Captain/Cover Aladdin in Aladdin and Cover Dick Whittington in Dick Whittington (Jordan Productions); Cover Gina in Paramour (Cirque du Soleil/Stage Entertainment); Thursford Christmas Spectacular (Thursford Collection); featured tapper in Feet Keep Me Flyin’ (Leicester Curve); Cover Ali in Mamma Mia! (Royal Caribbean); Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour and featured dancer at Latitude Festival.

Trained at Bird College.

RYAN JUPP Swing Theatre includes Prince Charming in Cinderella (Regent Theatre Stoke on Trent); lead vocalist in MV Iona and Headliners Theatre Company (Carnival UK); Jerry Travers in Top Hat The Musical (Silver Blue Entertainment); Marvin Michaels in California Suite (Royal Court); vocalist in Magic of the Musicals (Royal Albert Hall); Fred Graham/Dance Captain for Kiss Me, Kate (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch).

Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

MATTHEW MALTHOUSE Pete Previously at Chichester, Policeman in Singin’ in the Rain, Jake in 42nd Street (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Phil Dolan III in On Your Toes (Royal Festival Hall); Oklahoma! (Royal Albert Hall); Oh! What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Bob Alcorn in Bonnie and Clyde (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Rusty Charlie in Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible); Skimbleshanks in Cats (Kilworth House); Dance Captain in Local Hero (Royal Lyceum Theatre);

MATTHEW MALTHOUSE | MATHEW CRAIG | KATE PARR CRIAG BARTLEY BRADLEY TREVETHAN NICHOLAS DUNCAN ADRIAN GROVE | SADIE-JEAN SHIRLEY KYLE COX JOSHUA NKEMDILIM | NELL MARTIN | JASON BATTERSBY CHARLIE STEMP CARLY ANDERSON | NICHOLAS DUNCAN LILA ANDERSON

Dance Captain/Assistant Choreographer for Sunshine on Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Foster Wilson in Annie Get Your Gun, Tom Barker in My Fair Lady (Sheffield Theatres); Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me, Kate (Théâtre du Châtelet Paris); Jeff in Groundhog Day (Old Vic); Eddie in Mrs Henderson Presents (Noël Coward Theatre/Theatre Royal Bath); Don Lockwood/ Policeman in Singin’ In The Rain (UK tour/Palace Theatre); Escapologist in Matilda, Chicago (Cambridge Theatre); title role in Edward Scissorhands, Bruno/Marco in The Carman (New Adventures); Anything Goes (Drury Lane Theatre); Salt in Beauty and the Beast (Disney Theatrical Productions).

Trained at Dance School of Scotland and Arts Educational Schools.

NELL MARTIN Swing / Dance Captain Theatre includes Dancer in SMOOSH! (Paraorchestra); Resident Choreographer/Swing for Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour); Dance Captain/Swing/Cassandra in Cats LILA ANDERSON LAURA HILLS TARA YASMIN IMOGEN BOWTELL

(international tour); Flora in Neptunalia (Cscape Dance Company); Pauline in West Side Story (Salzburg International Theatre Festival); Assistant Choreographer/Swing for Bad Girls (The Union Theatre); Assistant Choreographer for Beauty and the Beast (Arts Educational Schools, London).

Radio includes Friday Night is Music Night.

Films include Wonka, Servants Quarters (Choreographer).

Trained at Arts Educational Schools.

JOSHUA NKEMDILIM Billy Theatre includes Hairspray (UK and Ireland tour); Tommy the Cat in Dick Whittington, cover Muddles in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, A Little Princess and A Night With Boy Blue.

Television includes I Like the Way You Move, The Voice Kids UK Final 2020/22, The Greatest Dancer, Ted Lasso, Children in Need: EastEnders.

Joshua has also performed with artists including Mark Owen, Steps, Will.I.Am and

Anne Marie.

Trained at The BRIT School and D&B Academy.

Instagram: @Josh.Nkem Twitter: @JoshNkemdilim KATE PARR Patsy Theatre includes Miss Gurmley-Warmley/ Phoenix in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Stephanie Mangano in Saturday Night Fever (UK tours); A Little Princess (Southbank Centre); Young Sandra in Follies (National Theatre); Dick Whittington (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Deborah in The Fix (The Union); Olivier Awards 2016 (ROH); Soupy Sue in Urinetown, Big Fish (ArtsEd).

Television includes The Crown.

Radio includes Friday Night is Music Night: D-Day Special.

Trained at Arts Educational Schools and The Academy for Theatre Arts.

SADIE-JEAN SHIRLEY Tess Theatre includes Bedknobs and Broomsticks The Musical (UK and Ireland tour); Associate Choreographer Coming to England (Birmingham Rep); City of Angels (Garrick Theatre); The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit (Hope Mill Theatre); Disney’s Aladdin The Musical (Prince Edward Theatre); Ghost The Musical (UK and international tour); Dusty (UK tour); A Night at the Musicals (UK tour); Jack and the Beanstalk (Hackney Empire); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London and tour); How We Kids Roll (On a Spree New Writers’ Night, Young Actors Theatre); Cinderella (Fairfield Halls Croydon); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Shaw Theatre); Seussical The Musical (Charles Cryer Theatre Carshalton).

Television includes Roisin Conaty’s Game Face, Disney’s Broadway Hits, Tonight at the London Palladium, The Theatre Channel (Theatre Café).

Films include Disney’s Aladdin, Confession.

Trained at Arts Educational Schools, The BRIT School, Betty Wivell Academy of Performing Arts and Young Actors Theatre.

GAY SOPER Lottie Child Previously at Chichester Debo in The Mitford Girls (also West End), Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk (Festival Theatre).

West End credits include George’s Mother in Sunday In The Park With George (Menier Chocolate Factory/Wyndham’s Theatre); Grandma in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Berthe in Pippin (Menier Chocolate Factory); Mrs Strakosh in Funny Girl (Menier/ Savoy Theatre); Mrs Alexander in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Apollo Theatre/Gielgud Theatre); Canterbury Tales (Phoenix); Godspell (Roundhouse/Wyndham’s); Billy (Drury Lane); Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables (Palace); Side By Side By Sondheim (Wyndham’s); Good (RSC/Aldwych); Yvette in Mother Courage (National Theatre); Which Witch (Piccadilly); Lend Me a Tenor (Gielgud); Salad Days (Vaudeville Theatre).

Other theatre includes Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music, Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible (Storyhouse Chester); Death Takes a Holiday (Charing Cross Theatre); Maurice’s Jubilee, The Busy Body, Doctor in the House, Star Quality, Nude With Violin, Blithe Spirit, Cabaret, Morse, House of Ghosts, The Lady’s Not For Burning, Killing Rasputin, Cinderella, Peter Pan, The Rink, The Sister Wendy Musical, My Fair Lady, Oliver!, Cole, Betjemania (London/New York).

Opera/Operetta includes Mad Margaret in Ruddigore, Marcellina in Figaro, Prascovia in The Merry Widow, Buttercup in HMS Pinafore, Ruth in Pirates of Penzance (Regents Park), Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, The Ratepayer’s Iolanthe.

Recordings include many original cast albums, and a solo album Flying Fish and Fallen Angels.

Cabaret includes Pizza on the Park, Jermyn Street Theatre.

Television and Film includes Rupture, Holby City, Unforgotten, Romany Jones, Rude Health, The Needle Match, The Bill, Father Dear Father, Bless This House, The Agatha Christie Hour, Barbara, The Ups and Downs of a Handyman, Lace, A Christmas Carol, and the voice of all the characters and narration of The Flumps.

Trained at LAMDA.

CHARLIE STEMP Bobby Child Previously at Chichester, Arthur Kipps in Half a Sixpence (Festival Theatre/Cameron Mackintosh, which transferred to the Noël Coward Theatre, West End and was recently broadcast on Sky Arts as Kipps – The New Half a Sixpence Musical), for which he was nominated for the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, the 2017 Carl Alan Performer’s Award, the 2016 UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical, and won the 2017 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

Theatre includes Bert in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre/Cameron Mackintosh, for which he received his second Olivier Award nomination for 2020 Best Actor in a Musical); Barnaby Tucker in Hello Dolly! (Shubert Theater, New York, receiving the 2018 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut); and THE COMPANY

three consecutive Christmas seasons at the London Palladium, as Dick in Dick Whittington, Prince in Snow White and Pantoland at the Palladium. Other credits include Simon Green in Lloyd George Knew My Father (Theatre Royal Windsor); Dvornichek in Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing (national tour); Eddie in Mamma Mia! (international tour); and Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre).

Trained at Laine Theatre Arts.

Instagram: @charlie.stemp Twitter: @Charlie_Stemp BRADLEY TREVETHAN Swing Previously at Chichester Barney Hicks in The Music Man (Festival Theatre).

Theatre includes Alan Partridge Live (UK Arena tour); Hairspray (London Coliseum); Robin Hood (Gala Theatre, Durham); Grease (RCCL); Tropic at the Disco (NEC Birmingham);

Jack and the Beanstalk (Devonshire Park Theatre Eastbourne); Sleeping Beauty (Central Theatre Chatham); Friedrich in The Sound of Music (UK tour).

Television includes Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, BBC Children in Need, BBC Music Awards.

Trained at Urdang Academy.

ELLA VALENTINE Margie Theatre includes Dick Whittington and Aladdin (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford); Morticia Addams in The Addams Family, Giraffe in Just So, Follies, The Laramie Project (LTA Studio Theatre).

Trained at Sylvia Young Theatre School and Laine Theatre Arts.

TARA YASMIN Louise Theatre includes Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (Crampton Hall Theatre); Helene in Sweet Charity (Laine Theatre Arts); Musical Theatre Classics (The Princes Hall); Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington and soloist in Christmas Cracker (Kings Theatre Portsmouth); Time in Motion and Memorial Gala Performances (National Youth Ballet of Great Britain).

Films include the short James.

Trained at Laine Theatre Arts.

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C R E AT I V E T E A M

ANDY BARNWELL Orchestral Manager Previously at Chichester Babes in Arms, Funny Girl, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Love Story, 42nd Street, She Loves Me, Singin’ In The Rain, Sweeney Todd, Kiss Me, Kate, The Pajama Game, Barnum, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, A Damsel in Distress, Mack and Mabel, Travels with My Aunt, Half A Sixpence, Love’s Labour’s Lost/Much Ado About Nothing, Caroline, Or Change, Fiddler on the Roof, Me and My Girl, Flowers for Mrs Harris, This Is My Family, Oklahoma!, South Pacific.

Current/past London productions include: SUSAN STROMAN

Beauty and the Beast, Anything Goes, Cabaret, Moulin Rouge!, Get Up, Stand Up, Frozen, Carousel, Hairspray The Musical, Pretty Woman, Dear Evan Hansen, & Juliet, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Hamilton, Aladdin, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical, Sweet Charity, Caroline, Or Change, Little Shop of Horrors, Strictly Ballroom, Lady Day, An American in Paris, On The Town, Half A Sixpence, Love’s Labour’s Lost/Much Ado About Nothing, In the Heights, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Show Boat, Guys and Dolls (and tour), Gypsy, Memphis, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, City of Angels, Porgy and Bess, Monty Python Live (mostly)

(O2 Arena), A Chorus Line, Kiss Me, Kate, Sweeney Todd, Love Story, Sister Act (and tour).

Current/past regional/UK tours include: South Pacific, The Rocky Horror Show, The King and I, Motown The Musical, Shrek, Funny Girl, The Commitments, Billy Elliot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dirty Dancing, Singin’ In The Rain, Spamalot, West Side Story (all also in London): Dusty, Sunshine on Leith, Addams Family, Oliver!, Legally Blonde.

DOUG BESTERMAN New Orchestrations Previously at Chichester, orchestrations for Me and My Girl (with Mark Cumberland).

Orchestration credits on Broadway include Anastasia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Bronx Tale, It Shoulda Been You, Bullets Over Broadway (Tony Award nomination), Rocky, On a Clear Day, Sister Act, How to Succeed...

(Tony Award nomination), Elf, Young Frankenstein (Drama Desk Award nomination), Tarzan, Dracula, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), The Producers (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Seussical, Music Man (Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations), Fosse (Tony Award), Big (Drama Desk nomination), Damn Yankees (Drama Desk nomination), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; and additional orchestrations for Aladdin, Annie, Cinderella and The People in the Picture.

Internationally Young Frankenstein, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Guys and Dolls (London); Rocky (Hamburg); Sister Act (London, Hamburg); Der Schuh des Manitu (Berlin).

Film/television includes Schmigadoon (Exec. Music Producer), Aladdin, Mary Poppins Returns, Beauty and the Beast, Hail, Caesar!, American Housewife, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Galavant, Peter Pan Live, The Sound of Music Live, Frozen, Winnie the Pooh, Captain America, Nine, The Producers (also Music Producer), and many awards shows including the Oscars, Tonys, Emmys and Kennedy Center Honors.

Doug has also arranged for many vocalists, including Christine Andreas, Toni Braxton, Sutton Foster, Jane Krakowski, Beyoncé Knowles, Barry Manilow, Mandy Patinkin, Barbra Streisand, and written many arrangements for the Boston Pops Orchestra.

As a composer, scores include the musicals

Breathe, Little Did I Know and The Big One-Oh. His music has also been recorded by singer Christian Bautista, heard in the films The Punisher, Out of Step and Exit Speed, TV shows Summerland and One Life To Live, in concert with the United States Military Academy Concert Band, and in the musical Hats.

KEN BILLINGTON Lighting Designer Ken Billington works in theatre, television and architecture. 100 Broadway designs including Waitress, Act One, Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway, The Scottsboro Boys, Side by Side

by Sondheim, Sondheim on Sondheim, White Christmas, Title of Show, The Drowsy Chaperone, Footloose, revivals of Sunday in the Park with George (2008, 2017), Fiddler on the Roof (1976, 1981, 1990), My Fair Lady and Annie, plus the original production of Sweeney Todd and the current Chicago, the longest running American musical in history. Chicago has also been seen in over 22 countries all with the original lighting. Off Broadway includes such shows as Fortune & Men’s Eyes, Sylvia, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Fame and Annie Warbucks.

West End productions Sweeney Todd (1980), What the Butler Saw (1991), Chicago (1997 & 2017), Annie (1998), The Drowsy Chaperone, High School Musical, White Christmas, The Scottsboro Boys, Waitress and Sleepless. UK tours include Chicago, Waitress, White Christmas, Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5, Disney’s High School Musical and High School Musical 2.

Other projects New York’s Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show for 27 years; 100 opera productions including Porgy and Bess for Milan’s La Scala, Madrid’s Teatro Real and Paris Opera Bastille; architectural work New York’s Tavern on the Green and 54 Below.

Awards include Tony, Luman (architecture), Ace (television). Ken was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2015.

BEOWULF BORITT Set Designer Theatre: 26 Broadway shows include Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination), POTUS (Tony nomination), Flying Over Sunset (Tony nomination), Therese Raquin

(Tony nomination), Come From Away, Freestyle Love Supreme, Be More Chill, The New One, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, ...Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock Of Ages, Chaplin, On The Town, Bronx Bombers, Grace, and The Two And Only.

100 Off-Broadway shows include The Last Five Years, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, Miss Julie, Shakespeare in the Park’s Much Ado and Merry Wives.

He has designed for The NYC Ballet and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and around the world in England, Ireland, Russia, China, Australia and Japan.

He received the 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.

CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Designer Previously at Chichester 8 Hotels, Oklahoma!, The Meeting, Quiz, Sweet Bird of Youth, Strife, Half A Sixpence, Young Chekhov (also National Theatre), Mack & Mabel; and Taken at Midnight, Gypsy and Guys and Dolls (all also West End).

West End and Broadway credits include Company, Girl From The North Country, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (2020 Drama Desk Award), A Christmas Carol, The Ferryman, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Farinelli and the King, Groundhog Day, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Matilda, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Ghost, Les Misérables, La Bête, Billy Elliot, Rock ’n’ Roll, Private Lives.

West End theatre includes The Drifters Girl, Get Up, Stand Up!, Back to the Future, Cinderella, Anything Goes, Leopoldstadt, The Prince of Egypt, City of Angels, All About Eve, Rosmersholm, The Light in the Piazza, The King and I, Queen Anne, Mary Poppins, Funny Girl, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bend it Like Beckham, Made in Dagenham, Fatal Attraction, I Can’t Sing!, Stephen Ward, Henry V, Passion Play, Peter and Alice, Old Times, Top Hat, The Bodyguard, A Chorus of Disapproval, South Downs/The Browning Version, The King’s Speech, Sweeney Todd, Hay Fever, Betrayal, Million Dollar Quartet, The Children’s Hour, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Hair, Love Never Dies, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Oliver!, Priscilla

JASON BATTERSBY SIMON ANTHONY NICHOLAS DUNCAN MATTHEW MALTHOUSE CHARLIE STEMP KYLE COX BRADLEY TREVETHAN CRAIG BARTLEY NATHAN ELWICK

Queen of the Desert, The Lord of the Rings, An Inspector Calls; and work for The Bridge, Donmar Warehouse, Almeida and Old Vic. Films and television include Downton Abbey, Murder on the Orient Express, The Bourne Legacy, The First Lady, The Gilded Age, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Good Behavior, House of Cards, Boardwalk Empire, Doctor Who. www.cyassocs.com MARK CUMBERLAND New Orchestrations Previously at Chichester, orchestrations for Me and My Girl (with Doug Besterman).

Recent work includes Sister Act (London/UK tour); Dreamgirls (UK tour); With a Little Bit of Lerner (Royal Festival Hall with SOLT/BBC); Best of Broadway (Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra); Magic at the Musicals 2016, 2017 & 2018 (Royal Albert Hall); Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre, with Doug Besterman); cast album arrangements for 42nd Street (Drury Lane); Ruthless! (Arts); Allegro (Southwark Playhouse); The Smallest Show on Earth (UK tour); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

(Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, with Larry Blank); Guys and Dolls (Phoenix/UK tour, with Larry Blank); The Ringtone Cycle (UK premiere with Boston Pops Orchestra); The Commitments (UK tour); Carousel (Arcola); Shrek the Musical (UK & Ireland tour).

Television work includes Clean Bandit Radio 1 Sessions, The One Show, The Voice, Tonight at the London Palladium, The Royal Variety Performance, BBC Children in Need.

Mark has provided the orchestrations for the Olivier Awards since 2012 alongside Larry Blank, as well as orchestrations for The Oliviers in Concert at the Royal Festival Hall. He has also written for many orchestras internationally including Boston Pops Orchestra, the Philly Pops, San Francisco Symphony, the Halle, Orchestra Sinfonica de Barcelona, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night.

SABRINA CUNIBERTO Associate Costume Designer & Supervisor Previously at Chichester, Costume Supervisor for Miss Julie / Black Comedy, This Is My Family (Minerva Theatre), Blue Remembered Hills, Playhouse Creatures, Fred’s Diner (Theatre on the Fly), 101 Dalmatians, A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast (Festival Theatre), Grimm Tales, Running Wild, Crossing Lines (promenade).

Theatre includes as Costume Designer Impossible (Noël Coward Theatre).

As Associate Costume Designer/Costume Supervisor: The Life of Pi (Wyndham’s Theatre); The Normal Heart (National Theatre); Dreamgirls (UK tour); Get Up Stand Up! (Lyric Theatre); Hairspray (London Coliseum); Be More Chill (The Other Palace); Dear Evan Hansen (Noël Coward Theatre); Apollo 11 (Los Angeles); Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre); Motown the Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre & UK tour); Indecent, Spamilton, Travesties (also Apollo Theatre & Roundabout NY), The Grönholm Method (Menier Chocolate Factory); Slaves of Solitude, Drawing the Line, Mr Foote’s

Other Leg (also Theatre Royal Haymarket), Labyrinth (Hampstead); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Aldwych & UK tour); William Wordsworth (Theatre by the Lake); a profoundly affectionate passionate devotion to someone. (noun), Who Cares (Royal Court); Dirty Dancing (UK tour); Faith Healer (Donmar Warehouse); Cymbeline (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe tour); Jersey Boys (Piccadilly Theatre & UK tour); The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (Bristol Old Vic); Shrek the Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane & UK tour); The Drowned Man (Punchdrunk); Rock of Ages (Shaftesbury Theatre & UK tour).

BEN DAVIES Associate Set Designer Previously at Chichester Assistant Designer South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy (also West End), Associate Designer Murder on the Orient Express, Oklahoma! (Festival Theatre), The Unfriend (Minerva Theatre).

Theatre as Associate Designer Moulin Rouge! (Piccadilly Theatre); The Drifters Girl

LILA ANDERSON EVONNEE BENTLEY-HOLDER LAURA HILLS ELLA VALENTINE IMOGEN BOWTELL TARA YASMIN

(Garrick Theatre); Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre); The Book of Mormon (UK tour); Matilda the Musical (UK and international tours); Present Laughter, Lungs, Art, Electra, A Christmas Carol, The Lorax (The Old Vic and US/ Toronto); Beautiful, The Ferryman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End/Broadway); Long Day’s Journey into Night, Venus in Fur (West End); The Red Lion, Three Days in the Country, King Lear (National Theatre).

Theatre as Assistant Designer Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Broadway); Sweeney Todd, Oliver!, The Audience, The Wizard of Oz, Hamlet, Betty Blue Eyes, The Children’s Hour, Shrek The Musical (West End); God of Carnage (West End/ Broadway); Bombay Dreams (Broadway); An American in Paris (Broadway/Paris); The Trojans (Metropolitan Opera New York).

DALE DRISCOLL Associate Lighting Designer Dale has toured extensively throughout the UK and internationally, and has also been Resident on some of the largest shows in the West End. As Associate Lighting Designer, Mrs

Doubtfire (Manchester Opera House), Sleepless (Wembley Park Theatre), Pretty Woman (Piccadilly Theatre & Savoy Theatre), & Juliet (Manchester Opera House & Shaftesbury Theatre), Bodyguard The Musical (UK tour & worldwide), Summer Holiday (UK tour), West End Bares (Novello Theatre).

As Assistant Lighting Designer, Grease (Dominion Theatre); as Re-Lighter for Cinema, An American In Paris (Dominion Theatre); as Lighting Designer, I Still Get Excited When I See a Ladybird (Theatre503).

Trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

GEORGE GERSHWIN AND IRA GERSHWIN Music and Lyrics Lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896 – 1983) and his younger brother, composer George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) created some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

While each had enjoyed early success with other collaborators, from the time of their 1924 Broadway hit Lady Be Good! until George’s death in 1937, the brothers wrote

almost exclusively with each other, composing over two dozen scores for Broadway and Hollywood. They included a trilogy of political satires, Strike Up the Band (1930), the Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing (1931) and its sequel, Let ‘Em Eat Cake (1933) – all three written with playwrights George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind – and their opera Porgy and Bess (co-written with DuBose and Dorothy Heyward), which premiered in 1935.

Concurrently with the Gershwins’ musical theatre and film work, George composed enduringly significant and popular orchestral and piano works, including Rhapsody in

Blue and An American in Paris.

After George’s early death from a brain tumour, Ira continued to work in film and theatre with collaborators ranging from Kurt Weill and Jerome Kern to Harold Arlen, among others, writing songs such as ‘Long Ago (and Far Away)’ and ‘The Man That Got Away’, both nominated for Academy Awards.

The United States Congress awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the Gershwins in 1985, and in 2007 the Library of Congress instituted the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

EVONNEE BENTLEY-HOLDER IMOGEN BOWTELL ELLA VALENTINE CHARLIE STEMP TARA YASMIN LAURA HILLS LILA ANDERSON

JILL GREEN CDG Casting Director Previously at Chichester She Loves Me, 42nd Street, Oklahoma!, The Music Man, Babes in Arms, Carousel, My One and Only.

Theatre includes Dear Evan Hansen (Noël Coward); Jersey Boys (Trafalgar Theatre/Prince Edward/Piccadilly/UK and Ireland tours); 101 Dalmatians (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour); The Lion King (2015-2023 UK and Ireland/international tours); Young Frankenstein (Garrick); Touching The Void (Duke of York’s/Bristol Old Vic and tour); War Horse (New London Theatre/tours 2015-2020); Hairspray (London Coliseum); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Bridge Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time (Gielgud Theatre/Piccadilly Theatre/tours 2015-2019); Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Aldwych/ UK and Ireland tour); Lazarus (King’s Cross Theatre); Kinky Boots (Adelphi/UK and Ireland tour); Disney’s Aladdin (Prince Edward); Jane Eyre (UK tour 2017/National Theatre); La Strada; Show Boat (New London/Crucible Theatre Sheffield); The Scottsboro Boys (UK casting, Garrick/Young Vic); The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane/UK tours); Contact (Queen’s Theatre); Fosse (Prince of Wales).

Film: Dancers for Paddington 2 and Beyond the Sea. Casting Assistants for Crazy for You : Diane Mabbett, Chenube-Ruth Bailey. www.jillgreencasting.org Twitter: @JGreenCasting KAI HARADA Sound Designer Designs for many Broadway productions include Mister Saturday Night, Head Over Heels, The Band’s Visit (for which he received Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Amélie, Sunday in the Park with George, Allegiance, Gigi, Fun Home, On The Town, First Date, Follies (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), and Million Dollar Quartet (also West End).

Off-Broadway productions include The Bedwetter, Kimberly Akimbo (Drama Desk nomination), Soft Power (Drama Desk nomination), and Hercules.

Further US and international theatre credits

include The Karate Kid The Musical (Stages St Louis); Swept Away (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); The Honeymooners (Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey); Benny and Joon (Old Globe, San Diego); The Light in the Piazza (Chicago/LA); Marie: Dancing Still (5th Avenue, Seattle); We Live in Cairo and The Black Clown (American Repertory Theater, Cambridge); various productions at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, and at City Center Encores!, New York, NY; Zorro (Moscow, Atlanta); Hinterm Horizont (Berlin); Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Pirates of Penzance (Portland Opera); Candide (Los Angeles Opera). Recorded Media includes Spandex: The Musical and Row (Audible).

Education: Yale University.

LUKE HOLMAN Assistant Musical Director Theatre includes, as Associate Musical Director Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour); as Assistant Musical Director, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK tour); as Music Assistant, Dear Evan Hansen (Noël Coward Theatre).

Trained on the Musical Direction and Coaching course at the Royal Academy of Music, and as a clarinettist and conductor at the Royal Northern College of Music and Kungliga Musikhögskolan.

ANGELIQUE ILO Associate Director / Choreographer Theatre credits as associate choreographer include Crazy for You (Paper Mill Playhouse/PBS Great Performances, numerous US regional theatre productions, Brazil, Australia, Netherlands); Contact (US national tour, Shanghai, Korea).

As a performer, A Chorus Line (Broadway, US national tour, international tour); Crazy for You, Steel Pier and The Wedding Singer (Broadway); Contact (Lincoln Center Theater).

Other theatre credits include House of Flowers (US national tour).

Films include All That Jazz, The Producers.

WILLIAM IVEY LONG Costume Designer William Ivey Long is currently represented on Broadway by Beetlejuice and Chicago (now in its 26th year). In addition to his countless design credits for ballet, opera, film and television, Mr. Long has won six Tony Awards, with eighteen nominations. His first Olivier Award nomination was for Crazy for You in 1993.

He was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2005. www.williamiveylong.com JAY JONES Associate Sound Designer As Sound Designer: Headcase (Bush Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Robin Hood (Watermill Theatre), OV 200 Gala (The Old Vic), Gate Gala (St Paul’s Hammersmith), Plastic (Ustinov Studio Bath).

As Associate Sound Designer: Malory Towers (Passenger Shed), Standing At The Sky’s Edge (Crucible Theatre), Brief Encounter (Kneehigh/Empire Cinema, Haymarket), The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios), The Little Match Girl (Bristol Old Vic, UK tour & Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), Romantics Anonymous (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Girl From the North Country (Old Vic/Noël Coward Theatre), Tristan and Yseult ANGELIQUE ILO STACEY TODD HOLT

(Kneehigh UK tour), Dead Dog in a Suitcase (Kneehigh UK & international tour), 946 (Kneehigh Asylum, UK & international tour).

As Recording, Post-Production Mix and Mastering Engineer: Women of the World Festival 2021 (online), Darcy Bussell British Ballet Gala (Royal Opera House online), Global Stages (Royal Albert Hall), Best of the West End (BBC Radio 2), The Grinning Man live cast album.

As Audio Project Manager for the Royal Albert Hall, Jay has led on events such as Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man, The BAFTA Film Awards, James Bond: No Time To Die world film premiere, Magic at the Musicals, Classic FM Live, Trevor Nelson’s Soul Christmas, Royal Philharmonic concert series, Letters Live, Ronnie Scott’s 60th Anniversary, Global Citizen Awards, Nitin Sawhney, HRVY live stream, Kano, Banobo, Ry X, Guy Barker’s Big Band and Emma Bunton’s Christmas Party.

Jay was Head of Sound at Shakespeare’s Globe under the artistic leadership of Emma Rice.

Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

MICHAELA KENNEN Voice & Dialect Coach Previously at Chichester A Damsel in Distress (Festival Theatre); South Downs / The Browning Version (also West End), She Loves Me

(Minerva Theatre); Neville’s Island (Theatre in the Park, also West End).

Theatre credits include Oslo, The Beaux’ Stratagem, The History Boys, Market Boy, Caroline, Or Change, Thérèse Raquin, The Alchemist, The Rose Tattoo, Playing with Fire (National Theatre); The Hypocrite, The Comedy of Errors, Hecuba, Oppenheimer (RSC); Cabaret, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, The Man in the White Suit, Summer and Smoke, The Importance of Being Earnest, Motown the Musical, Memphis The Musical, Country Girl, Butley, Chimerica (also Almeida), Love Never Dies, Hairspray, And Then There Were None, Jesus Hopped the ‘ A’ Train and Lovely and Misfit (West End); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Chairs (Almeida); The Breach, Occupational Hazards (Hampstead); Guys and Dolls, The Last King of Scotland, Steel, The Wizard of Oz, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Sheffield Theatres); The Wolves, The Village (Stratford East); The Crucible (Old Vic); Things of Dry Hours, Vernon God Little, The Glass Menagerie, The Government Inspector, The Brothers Size, Eurydice (Young Vic); The Nether, Routes, Truth and Reconciliation, Love Love Love, The Witness (Royal Court); Disgraced, Artefacts, The Flooded Grave, St Petersburg (Bush Theatre).

Opera includes Orpheus in the Underworld, Pagliacci (ENO) and Songs from a Hotel Bedroom (ROH).

Television includes Happy Valley, Zero Chill, Doctor Who, Odyssey, Millie Inbetween, Grantchester, Midsomer Murders.

Films include Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Brimstone, Broken, Cosi, Nine, Exam.

DAVID KRANE New Arrangements David has composed dance music and arrangements for 35 Broadway shows, including 110 In The Shade, La Cage aux Folles, Cabaret, Man of La Mancha, Oklahoma!, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Music Man, Show Boat, Big, Ragtime, Victor Victoria, Minnelli on Minnelli, Damn Yankees, On The 20th Century and She Loves Me. Original works for theatre include the musicals Aspire and The Road to Qatar, both written with Stephen Cole; the latter won the

Dallas-Fort Worth Critics’ Forum Best New Musical Award 2009-10, and was also produced Off-Broadway and at the Edinburgh Fringe. His original movie musical The Wheel Goes Round, again with Stephen Cole, was chosen for several international film festivals. Their new original musical, Goin’ Hollywood premieres in Dallas in July, 2023. www.goinhollywood.com Compositions and arrangements for Film include My Week with Marilyn, Chicago, Nine, Into The Woods, Mary Poppins Returns and The Little Mermaid.

Television includes Once Upon a Mattress, Annie (special citation from the Emmy Awards), Mrs Santa Claus, Cinderella, the 2003 Oscars and The Kennedy Center Honors.

Studied at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia. www.davidkrane.com KEN LUDWIG Writer Ken Ludwig has had six shows on Broadway and seven in London’s West End. His 32 plays and musicals are staged around the world and throughout the United States every night of the year.

His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Crazy For You was on Broadway for five years, on the West End for three, and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical.

In addition, he has won the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theater, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Charles MacArthur Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year. His other plays, including Moon Over Buffalo, Baskerville, Twentieth Century, A Comedy of Tenors and The Game’s Afoot, have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Tony Shaloub, and Joan Collins.

His book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, published by Penguin Random House, won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year, and his essays on theatre are published in the Yale Review. His first opera, Tenor Overboard, will open at the Glimmerglass Festival in July 2022. His newest plays include Pride and Prejudice, Part 2:

Napoleon at Pemberley; Lady Molly of Scotland Yard; Lend Me A Soprano; and Moriarty.

Most recently, his adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, written at the request of the Agatha Christie Estate and with Henry Goodman as Hercule Poirot, had its European premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre earlier in the 2022 Festival season.

For more information, see his website at www.kenludwig.com.

RICHARD PITT Assistant Director / Choreographer Richard has previously worked with Susan Stroman as Assistant Choreographer on The Scottsboro Boys and as Associate Choreographer on Young Frankenstein. Credits as Assistant Director include Riverdance (world tour). He also produced and managed a show commissioned by the Mexican Government.

Richard was part of the creative team of the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony as Dance Captain, and has performed in numerous pantomimes, opera and regional theatre productions.

Trained at London Studio Centre.

RACHEL BOWN-WILLIAMS AND RUTH COOPER-BROWN OF RC-ANNIE LTD Fight Directors Rc-Annie Ltd, established in 2005 by Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown, is the UK’s leading dramatic violence company.

DAVID KRANE LUKE HOLMAN ALAN WILLIAMS LIAM WAUGH

Previously at Chichester The Taxidermist’s Daughter, Macbeth, Plenty, Way Upstream (Festival Theatre), Hedda Tesman, The House They Grew Up In (Minerva Theatre).

Other Theatre credits include Henry VIII, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Macbeth, Emilia, Othello, The Secret Theatre, Boudica, Lions and Tigers, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Comus, Imogen (Shakespeare’s Globe); Celebrated Virgins, Beauty and the Beast (Theatr Clwyd); The Father and the Assassin, The Welkin, Three Sisters, Anna, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Common, Ugly Lies the Bone, Peter Pan, The Threepenny Opera, The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival co-production), Cleansed, Peter Pan (National Theatre); Oklahoma! (Young Vic); East is East (Birmingham Rep and NT co-production); Richard III, Henry VI: Rebellion and Henry VI: Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part 1 (Rehearsal Room Project), King John, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Tartuffe, The Duchess of Malfi, Salome and Snow in Midsummer (RSC); Theodora (Royal Opera House); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End); The Play What I Wrote (Birmingham Rep and tour); The Life of Pi (Wyndham’s Theatre); Blue/ Orange, God of Carnage (Theatre Royal Bath); ‘Night Mother (Hampstead Theatre); Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida Theatre); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion

Theatre); A Monster Calls (also national tour), Woyzeck (Old Vic); [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith and West End); A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter (The Bridge Theatre); Wise Children (Wise Children/Old Vic); Company (Gielgud Theatre).

SUSAN STROMAN Direction and Choreography Susan Stroman is a five-time Tony Awardwinning director and choreographer, who has also received Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and a record six Astaire Awards. She received her first Tony Award for her choreography in the original Broadway production of Crazy for You. On Broadway, she directed and choreographed The Producers, winner of a record-making 12 Tony Awards including Best Direction and Best Choreography; co-created, directed and choreographed the Tony Awardwinning musical Contact for Lincoln Center Theater (which also won a 2003 Emmy Television Award for ‘Live from Lincoln Center’); and directed and choreographed The Scottsboro Boys on Broadway and in the West End, where it won the 2014 Evening Standard Award for Best Musical.

Most recently she directed the Broadway play POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass

RICHARD PITT RUTH COOPER-BROWN

Are Seven Women Keeping Him Alive.

Other Broadway credits include Oklahoma!, Show Boat, Prince of Broadway, Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish, Young Frankenstein, Thou Shalt Not, The Music Man, The Frogs, Big, Steel Pier, Picnic and Crazy for You. West End productions include Crazy For You, Oklahoma!, Show Boat, Contact, The Producers and Young Frankenstein.

Off-Broadway credits include The Beast in the Jungle, Dot, Flora the Red Menace, And the World Goes ’Round, Happiness and The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville.

For ten years she choreographed Madison Square Garden’s annual A Christmas Carol.

Other theatre includes direction and choreography for the Broadway-bound Ahrens/ Flaherty musical Little Dancer (5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle); and, in collaboration with Williamstown Theatre Festival, she directed Photograph 51 for Audible.

Ballet and opera include The Merry Widow (Metropolitan Opera); Double Feature and For the Love of Duke (New York City Ballet); But Not for Me (Martha Graham Company); Take Five...

More or Less (Pacific Northwest Ballet).

Television and Films include choreography for Liza – Live from Radio City Music Hall (Emmy Award nomination) and Center Stage (American Choreography Award); and direction

and choreography for The Producers: The Movie Musical (four Golden Globe nominations).

She is an Associate Director for Lincoln Center Theater and a member of the Board of Directors for the Ronald O. Perelman Center for the Performing Arts at the World Trade Center.

She is the recipient of the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater and an inductee of the Theater Hall of Fame in New York City. www.SusanStroman.com STACEY TODD HOLT Associate Choreographer Theatre credits as Associate Choreographer include Tuck Everlasting (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta & Broadhurst Theatre, New York). As Choreographer he staged Susan Stroman’s choreography on the Japanese company of Big The Musical.

As a performer, Broadway credits include Crazy for You (also US tour), Contact (also US tour), Big The Musical, The Producers, The Drowsy Chaperone, Cry-Baby, Elf The Musical, Rocky The Musical, Something Rotten!, Young Frankenstein (US tour).

Other theatre credits include Gypsy (Theatre Virginia); A Christmas Carol and La Cage aux Folles (North Shore Music Theatre, MA); George M! (Goodspeed Opera House, CT); Minsky’s (Ahmanson Theatre, LA); The Honeymooners and Annie (Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ).

ALAN WILLIAMS

ALAN WILLIAMS Musical Director Previously at Chichester, Musical Director for A Damsel in Distress (Festival Theatre).

Alan is an Arranger, Musical Director, Supervisor and Orchestrator. Most recently he was dance, vocal and incidental music arranger for Funny Girl (August Wilson Theatre, New York) and arranged/orchestrated Overture of Overtures for YouTube, which was subsequently performed in concert as part of 50 years of Broadway (Kennedy Center, Washington).

Arranging/Supervising credits include The Boy in the Dress (Royal Shakespeare Company), Big Fish (The Other Palace), Funny Girl (Menier Chocolate Factory, Savoy Theatre, UK tour & cinema broadcast), The Commitments (Palace Theatre & UK Tour).

As Musical Supervisor: Hairspray (London Coliseum), Evita (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Shrek (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, two UK tours & Australia), Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory), Urinetown (St. James & Apollo Theatres).

As Musical Director: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Southwark Playhouse), Disney’s Aladdin (Prince Edward Theatre), A Chorus Line (London Palladium), Passion and Spelling Bee (Donmar Warehouse), Spamalot (Palace Theatre).

Recordings: Producer for The Boy in the Dress (original cast album), Conductor for Funny Girl (2016 recording), keyboards for Sister Act (original cast album).

He studied piano and conducting at Chetham’s School of Music and Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

EVENTS

CRAZY FOR YOU PRE-SHOW TALK

Tuesday 18 July, 5.45pm Director and choreographer Susan Stroman in conversation with best-selling author Kate Mosse.

FREE but booking is essential.

POST-SHOW TALK

Tuesday 16 August Stay after the performance to ask questions, meet company members and discover more about the play. Hosted by CFT Literary Associate Kate Bassett.

FREE

THEATRE DAY

Wednesday 24 August, 10.30am Join the creative team and technical crew for 90 minutes of insight, demonstration and discussion. Combine with the matinee performance for an immersive day at the Theatre.

Tickets £5 (plus optional show ticket)

PROLOGUE MEETS CRAZY FOR YOU ™

Tuesday 23 August, post-show Prologue members (aged 16-30) can meet the toe-tappin’ cast of our summer musical for a drink after the show to get the inside scoop on performing at CFT. FREE but booking is essential.

DEMENTIA FRIENDLY PERFORMANCE

Thursday 1 September, 2.30pm This performance will feature minor adjustments to the sound and lighting levels. Staff will be on hand to ensure a welcoming atmosphere for people living with dementia.

Tickets £16. cft.org.uk/dementiafriendly

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S TA F F

TRUSTEES Alan Brodie Mark Foster Judy Fowler Victoria Illingworth Georgina Liley Rear Admiral John Lippiett CB CBE Harry Matovu QC Mike McCart Holly Mirams Caro Newling OBE Nick Pasricha Philip Shepherd Stephanie Street Tina Webster Susan Wells ASSOCIATES Kate Bassett Charlotte Sutton CDG

Richard Knowles Louise Rigglesford Chair

Literary Associate Casting Associate

BUILDING & SITE SERVICES Chris Edwards Maintenance Engineer Lez Gardiner Duty Engineer Daren Rowland Facilities Manager Graeme Smith Duty Engineer DEVELOPMENT Jessey Barnes

Development Officer (Corporate & Trusts)

Julie Field Sophie Henstridge-Brown Charlotte Stroud Karen Taylor

Development Manager Development Officer (Individuals)

Joanna Walker Megan Wilson

Director of Development Events Officer

DIRECTORS OFFICE Kathy Bourne Daniel Evans Elspeth Barron Patricia Key Georgina Rae Julia Smith FINANCE Alison Baker Sally Cunningham Amanda Hart Krissie Harte Katie Palmer

Finance Director & Company Secretary

Amanda Trodd Protozoon Ltd

Management Accountant IT Consultants

HR Emily Oliver Jenefer Francis Gillian Watkins

Accommodation Co-ordinator HR Officer HR Officer

LEAP Anastasia Alexandru Helena Berry

Lauren Grant Jade Hall Hannah Hogg

Executive Director Artistic Director Projects Co-ordinator PA to the Directors Head of Planning & Projects Board Support

Payroll & Pensions Officer Purchase Ledger Assistant Accounting & Report Analyst Finance Officer Assistant Management Accountant

Simon Parsonage

Rob Bloomfield Zoe Ellis Isabelle Elston

Friends Administrator Senior Development Manager

Youth & Outreach Trainee Heritage & Archive Co-ordinator Heritage & Archive Assistant LEAP Co-ordinator Community & Outreach Trainee Deputy Director of LEAP (Maternity Leave)

Youth & Outreach Co-ordinator - Musical Theatre Youth & Outreach Manager

Education Projects Manager Senior Community & Outreach Manager

Dale Rooks Brodie Ross

Director of LEAP Deputy Director of LEAP (Maternity Cover)

Riley Stroud

Education Apprentice

MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS, DIGITAL & SALES Carole Alexandre Distribution Officer Josh Allan Box Office Assistant Caroline Aston Audience Insight Manager Becky Batten Head of Marketing Laura Bern Marketing Manager Jenny Bettger Box Office Supervisor Jessica Blake-Lobb Marketing Manager (Corporate) Helen Campbell Lydia Cassidy

Deputy Box Office Manager Director of Marketing & Communications

Lorna Holmes Helena Jacques-Morton

Box Office Supervisor Senior Marketing Officer

James Mitchell James Morgan Lucinda Morrison Rachael Pennell

Box Office Assistant (Casual) Box Office Manager Head of Press Marketing and Press Assistant

Kirsty Peterson Catherine Rankin Jenny Thompson

Box Office Assistant Box Office Assistant (Casual) Social Media & Digital Marketing Officer

Emilie Trodd Julia Walter Claire Walters Joanna Wiege Jane Wolf

Box Office Assistant (Casual) Creative Digital Producer Box Office Assistant Box Office Administrator Box Office Assistant

PRODUCTION Amelia Ferrand-Rook Claire Rundle Joshua Vine Nicky Wingfield Jeremy Woodhouse

Producer Production Administrator Trainee Producer Production Administrator Producer

TECHNICAL Jake Barinov Stage & Automation Technician James Barnes Stage Crew Molly Barron Sound Technician Steph Bartle Deputy Head of Lighting Clara Clark Prop Maker Helen Clark Stage Crew Leoni Commosioung Stage Technician Adrien Corcilius Video & AV Technician Sarah Crispin Senior Prop Maker Lewis Ellingford Stage Technician Sam Garner-Gibbons Technical Director Jack Goodland Stage Crew Fuzz Guthrie Senior Sound Technician Lucy Guyver Production Manager Apprentice Katie Hennessy Props Store Co-ordinator Mike Keniger Head of Sound Andrew Leighton Senior Lighting Technician Zoe Lyndon-Smith Technical Theatre Apprentice Finlay Macknay Stage Crew Karl Meier Head of Stage Chris Minton Stage Crew Charlotte Neville Head of Props Workshop Ryan Pantling Sound Technician Stuart Partrick Transport & Logistics Assistant Tom Robinson Senior Stage & Construction Technician Neil Rose Joe Samuels James Sharples

Deputy Head of Sound Lighting Technician Senior Stage Crew & Rigger

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Molly Stammers Graham Taylor Dominic Turner Emily Williamson

Lighting Technician Head of Lighting Stage Crew Assistant Lighting Technician

THEATRE MANAGEMENT Janet Bakose Gill Dixon Ben Geering Karen Hamilton Will McGovern Sharon Meier Emily Singleton Gabriele Williams Caper & Berry Proclean Cleaning Ltd Vespasian Security

Theatre Manager Duty Manager House Manager Duty Manager Deputy House Manager PA to Theatre Manager Deputy House Manager Deputy House Manager Catering Cleaning Contractor Security

WARDROBE & WIGS Isabelle Brook Dresser Tobias Dane Dresser Emma Davidson Assistant Wardrobe Shelley Gray Deputy Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Abbie Hart Dresser Fran Horler Wardrobe Manager Dee Howland Assistant Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Amy Jeskins Wardrobe Manager Abbie Johns Dresser Henry Reeder Dresser Rebecca Rungen Head of Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Emily Souch Zena Sweetapple Loz Tait Colette Tulley

Assistant Wardrobe Deputy Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Head of Wardrobe Wardrobe Maintenance

Stage Door: Bob Bentley, Janet Bounds, Judith Bruce-Hay, Caroline Hanton, Keiko Iwamoto, Chris Monkton, Sue Welling Ushers: Miranda Allemand, Judith Anderson, Maria Antoniou, Izzy Arnold, Jacob Atkins, Carolyn Atkinson, Brian Baker, Richard Berry, Emily Biro, Gloria Boakes, Alex Bolger, Dennis Brombley, Judith Bruce-Hay, Louisa Chandler, Jo Clark, Gaye Douglas, Stella Dubock, Amanda Duckworth, Clair Edgell, Olivia Elgood, Lexi Finch, Suzanne Ford, Suzanne France, Jessica Frewin-Smith, Nigel Fullbrook, Barry Gamlin, Charlie Gardiner, Jay Godwin, Anna Grindel, Caroline Hanton, Justine Hargraves, Joseph Harrington, Joanne Heather, Daniel Hill, Marie Innes, Keiko Iwamoto, Flynn Jeffery, Joan Jenkins, Pippa Johnson, Julie Johnstone, Ryan Jones, Jan Jordan, Jon Joshua, Sally Kingsbury, Alexandra Langrish, Maille Lyster, Judith Marsden, Samantha Marshall, Emily McAlpine, Janette McAlpine, Fiona Methven, Chris Monkton, Ella Morgans, Susan Mulkern, Isabel Owen, Martyn Pedersen, Susy Peel, Kirsty Peterson, Helen Pinn, Barbara Pope, Fleur Sarkissian, Nicola Shaw, Janet Showell, Lorraine Stapley, Sophie Stirzaker, Angela Stodd, Christine Tippen, Charlotte Tregear, Andy Trust, Sue Welling, Rosemary Wheeler, James Wisker, Donna Wood, Kim Wylam, Jane Yeates We acknowledge the work of those who give so generously of their time as our Volunteer Audio Description Team: Tony Clark, Robert Dunn, Geraldine Firmston, Suzanne France, Richard Frost, David Phizackerley, Christopher Todd

LEAP

LEARNING, EDUCATION AND PARTICIPATION Our Learning, Education and Participation department works with people of all ages and abilities, offering opportunities to get involved with CFT beyond the work you see on our stages. A wide range of practical workshops, talks, tours and performances aims to excite and inspire everyone who takes part.

COMMUNITY

CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE

Enjoy developing artistic, personal and social skills through our workshops, projects, productions and award-winning Youth Theatre for young people of all abilities.

Chichester Festival Youth Theatre | Holiday Activities | Arts Award

EDUCATION

Our work with local schools, colleges and universities is designed to inspire and enrich students’ learning, while the next generation of arts professionals is nurtured through our training and apprenticeships programme.

In-school workshops and projects | Work Experience | School Theatre Days

Learn about life behind the scenes, discover more about productions, develop creative skills, socialise and share experiences with others through workshops and community projects for anyone aged 18+.

Get Into It! workshops | Talks and Discussions | Heritage projects | Dementia Friendly activities

FAMILIES

We’re always delighted to welcome our youngest visitors and their grown-ups to the Theatre. Families can explore and have fun with workshops, productions, events and activities.

Free Family Fun | Little Notes | Family shows and workshops

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SUPPORT US

SUPPORT OUR 60TH BIRTHDAY APPEAL Birthdays are for sharing and we are working harder than ever to help everyone join in. Your donation will mean more people can be part of our celebratory Festival 2022 Season.

We’re proud of CFT’s 60-year history of making and sharing stories for all.

So to celebrate our 60th Birthday, we’re doing even more to ensure everyone can get involved – whether that’s through providing bursaries for our Youth Theatre, offering relaxed and dementia-friendly performances, or training our volunteer Buddies to assist isolated people with theatre visits. We’re continuing to offer tickets starting from £10 for our Festival Theatre shows, as well as a full range of audio described, captioned and signed performances.

We need your help to raise £100,000 this year to enable everyone to be part of CFT’s birthday year. However much you choose to donate, your generosity will make a real difference to those most in need.

Make your gift today at cft.org.uk/birthdayappeal or call 01243 812915

Th ank yo u

‘What I really like with Chichester is I feel valued here’ Kathy, Access Member

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S U P P O R T E R S 2022

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT BENEFACTORS Deborah Alun-Jones Robin and Joan Alvarez David and Elizabeth Benson Philip Berry George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron Sir William and Lady Castell John and Pat Clayton John and Susan Coldstream Clive and Frances Coward Yvonne and John Dean Jim Douglas George and Natasha Duffield Mrs Veronica J Dukes Melanie Edge Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis Val and Richard Evans Sandy and Mark Foster Simon and Luci Eyers Angela and Uri Greenwood Sir Michael and Lady Heller Liz Juniper The family of Patricia Kemp Roger Keyworth Jonathan and Clare Lubran Selina and David Marks Mrs Sheila Meadows Jerome and Elizabeth O’Hea Philip and Gail Owen Graham and Sybil Papworth Mrs Denise Patterson Stuart and Carolyn Popham Jans Ondaatje Rolls Dame Patricia Routledge DBE David and Sophie Shalit Simon and Melanie Shaw Greg and Katherine Slay Christine and Dave Smithers Alan and Jackie Stannah Oliver Stocken CBE Howard Thompson Peter and Wendy Usborne The Webster Family Community Fund TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust Artswork The Arts Society, Chichester The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Bondi Foundation The Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity Chichester District Council Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray’s Charity Trust The Foyle Foundation The G D Charitable Trust The Noël Coward Foundation Theatres Trust Wickens Family Foundation

FESTIVAL PLAYERS John and Joan Adams Dr Cheryl Adams CBE Judy Addison Smith Mr Brian Baker The Earl and Countess of Balfour Matthew Bannister Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard (The Barness Charity Trust) Mrs Margaret Baumber Franciska and Geoffrey Bayliss Lucy Berry Julian and Elizabeth Bishop Martin Blackburn Sarah and Tony Bolton Janet Bounds Pat Bowman Lucy and Simon Brett Adam and Sarah Broke Therese Brook Jean Campbell Julie Campbell Ian and Jan Carroll Sir Bryan and Lady Carsberg CS and M Chadha Sally Chittleburgh David and Claire Chitty Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Denise Clatworthy David and Julie Coldwell Mr and Mrs Barry Colgate Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Michael and Jill Cook Freda Cooper Brian and Claire Cox Susan Cressey Deborah Crockford Jonathan and Sue Cunnison Rowena and Andrew Daniels Jennie Davies The de Laszlo Foundation Yvonne and John Dean Clive and Kate Dilloway Peter and Ruth Doust John and Joanna Dunstan Peter Edgeler and Angela Hirst Glyn Edmunds Anthony and Penny Elphick Caroline Elvy Sheila Evans Gary Fairhall Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Jane Fogg Robert and Pip Foster Jenifer and John Fox Terry Frost Mr Nigel Fullbrook George Galazka Alan and Pat Galer Robert and Pirjo Gardiner

Wendy and John Gehr Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Robin and Rosemary Gourlay R and R Green Reverend David Guest Ros and Alan Haigh Dr Stuart Hall Rowland and Caroline Hardwick Dennis and Joan Harrison Roger and Tina Harrison David Harrison Robert and Suzette Hayes Andrew Hine Hania and Paul Hinton Christopher Hoare Dame Denise and Mr David Holt Gill and Tim Howard Pauline and Ian Howat Barbara Howden Richards Richard and Kate Howlett John B Hulbert Mike Imms Mrs Raymonde Jay Melanie J Johnson Nina Kaye and Timothy Nathan Rodney Kempster Nigel Kennedy OBE Geoffrey King James and Clare Kirkman Frank and Freda Letch Mrs Jane Lewis John and Jenny Lippiett Amanda Lunt Jim and Marilyn Lush Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Nigel and Julia Maile Sarah Mansell and Tim Bouquet Sue Marsh Adrian Marsh and Maggie Stoker Charles and Elisabeth Martin Trevor and Lynne Matthews John and Sally-Ann McCormack Tim McDonald Jill and Douglas McGregor James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Diana Midmer Jenifer and John Mitchell David and Di Mitchell Sue and Peter Morgan Roger and Jackie Morris Terence F Moss Mrs Mary Newby Patricia Newton Bob and Maureen Niddrie Lady Nixon Pamela and Bruce Noble Eileen Norris Jacquie Ogilvie Margaret and Martin Overington Mr and Mrs Gordon Owen

Graham and Sybil Papworth Richard Parkinson and Hamilton McBrien Nick and Jo Pasricha Simon and Margaret Payton Terry and John Pearson Stephen and Annie Pegler Jean Plowright Barbara Pope John Pritchard Trust Brian and Margaret Raincock David Rees The Rees Family Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose Adam Rice John and Betsy Rimmer Robin Roads Philip Robinson Nigel and Viv Robson Ken and Ros Rokison Graham and Maureen Russell Clare Scherer and Jamie O'Meara Dr David Seager John and Tita Shakeshaft Mrs Dale Sheppard-Floyd Jackie and Alan Sherling The Sidlesham Theatre Group David and Linda Skuse Monique and David Smith Simon Smith Mr and Mrs Brian Smouha David and Unni Spiller Mel and Marilyn Stein Elizabeth Stern Barbara Stewart Peter Stoakley Anne Subba-Row Professor and Mrs Warwick Targett Harry and Shane Thuillier Mr Robert Timms Miss Melanie Tipples Alan and Helen Todd Peter and Sioned Vos David Wagstaff and Mark Dunne Ian and Alison Warren Brett Weaver and Linda Smith Chris and Dorothy Weller Bowen and Rennie Wells Judith Williams Angela Williams Lulu Williams Nick and Tarnia Williams David and Vivienne Woolf Angela Wormald And all those who wish to remain anonymous

‘Chichester Festival Theatre enriches lives with its work both on and off stage. It is a privilege to be connected in a small way with this inspirational and generous-hearted institution, especially at such a challenging time for everyone in the Arts.’

John and Susan Coldstream, Benefactors and Festival Players

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S U P P O R T E R S 2022

PRINCIPAL PARTNERS Platinum Partner

Prof E.F Juniper and Mrs Jilly Styles

Gold Level

Silver Level

CORPORATE PARTNERS Addison Law Criterion Ices

FBG Investment J Leon Group

Jones Avens Oldham Seals Group

The Bell Inn William Liley Financial Services Ltd

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