London Musicals 1995-1999.pub - Over The Footlights
London Musicals 1995-1999.pub - Over The Footlights
London Musicals 1995-1999.pub - Over The Footlights
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BOOGIE NIGHTS<br />
<strong>London</strong> run: Savoy <strong>The</strong>atre, October 20 th (95 performances)<br />
Music & Lyrics: Various<br />
Director: Jon Conway<br />
Book: Jon Conway, Shane Richie & Terry Morrison<br />
Choreographer: Alan Harding<br />
Musical Director: Rick Taylor<br />
1998<br />
53<br />
Cast: Shane Richie (Roddy), Lisa Maxwell (Debs),<br />
Sharon Benson (Lorraine), Peter Piper (Spencer),<br />
Nicholas Denney (Eamon), Steven Serlin (Terry), Jane Doyle,<br />
Mark Thrippleton, Ian Royce, John Blackman, Jo Redburn, Simon<br />
Smith.<br />
Songs: YMCA, Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word, I Will<br />
Survive, Play that Funky Music<br />
Story: Roddy is a wannabe rock singer with a pregnant girlfriend,<br />
Debs, and with a roving eye for Lorraine – who is going out with<br />
Spencer, the dope-dealing slap-head band-leader at the Boogie<br />
Nights disco. Roddy’s life is further complicated by his Elvisloving,<br />
obstreperous, Irish Dad, Eamon, and his thick, sex-starved<br />
mate, Terry. It all turns out happily and any plot is nothing more<br />
than an excuse for a whole evening of “rose-tinted nostalgia with<br />
more flares than flair”.<br />
Shane Ritchie & Lisa Maxwell<br />
Notes: This was a touring production which had originated at the Churchill <strong>The</strong>atre in Bromley, and was<br />
playing a limited season in the West End. It received very mixed notices: “the most dismal of my theatregoing<br />
experiences”, “a blatant rip-off”, “pleasantly terrible, weirdly wonderful”, “sends us home on a nine-mile<br />
high”. <strong>The</strong> critics generally liked Shane Richie, but were unanimous in their praise for the young chorus boydancer,<br />
Simon Smith, saying he was the best thing in the show.<br />
Photo by Universal Pictorial Press<br />
INTO THE WOODS (1 st Revival)<br />
<strong>London</strong> run: Donmar Warehouse, November 16 th – February 13 th<br />
Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim<br />
Book: James Lapine<br />
Director: John Crowley<br />
Choreographer: Jonathan Butterell<br />
Musical Director: Mark Warman<br />
Cast: Frank Middlemass (Narrator), Clare Burt (Witch),<br />
Christopher Pizzey (Jack), Sheila Reid (Jack’s Mother),<br />
Nick Holder (Baker), Sophie Thompson (Baker’s Wife),<br />
Jenna Russell (Cinderella),<br />
Samantha Lavender (Rapunzel),<br />
Sheridan Smith (Red Riding Hood),<br />
Damian Lewis (Cinderella’s Prince),<br />
Matt Rawle (Rapunzel’s Prince),<br />
Caroline Sheen (Florinda),<br />
Ceri Ann Gregory (Lucinda)<br />
Dilys Laye<br />
Notes: Original <strong>London</strong> Production: Phoenix <strong>The</strong>atre, September 1990
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