Archive for the ‘Theatre’ Category

BodyGuard On London’s West End

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

A new stage musical of The Bodyguard based on the Warner Bros. film of the same name with screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, and featuring Whitney Houston’s greatest hits, opens at the Adelphi Theatre 5 Dec 2012 and already booking through to late April 2013.  Directed by Thea Sharrock, it stars Heather Headley as Rachel Marron and Lloyd Owen as Frank Farmer in the roles made famous on film by the late Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. The production will feature a multitude of Whitney Houston’s hits including Queen of the Night, So Emotional, One Moment in Time, Saving All My Love, I’m Your Baby Tonight, Run to You, I Have Nothing, How Will I Know, I Wanna Dance With Somebody and I Will Always Love You.

Custom group opportunities abound – try those local high school theatre departments, community theatres or even universities to promote a bespoke theatre program to London, Edinburgh, provincial England or even Italy (no less than 11 Shakespeare plays are either entirely or partially set in Italy).

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Chicago comes to London

Friday, October 21st, 2011

London’s West End will welcome Ugly Betty star America Ferrera in the of Roxie Hart in Chicago, The Musical which will re-open on 7 November 2011 at the Garrick Theatre. America Ferrera, who is best known across the world as Ugly Betty from the hit TV series of the same name, joins the musical for eight weeks only.  Chicago is based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, has a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. This production has choreography by Ann Reinking in the style of Bob Fosse and is directed by Walter Bobbie.    As always Select Travel offers the finest London theatre tours and we welcome your enquiries for groups not just for theatre in London, but also Britain’s regional theatres as well as Dublin.  A fine selection of sample theatre and other performing arts related itineraries is available here.

Shakespearean Anagrams

Friday, July 17th, 2009

A Friday brain teazer for all you fans of literary tours of Britain…

“To be or not to be: that is the question, whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of ourageous fortune”

This is an anagram of:

“In one of the bard’s best thought-of-tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten”

Planning a literary tour of Britain is rather more simple than this with Select Travel Service!