The production will run at Upstairs at the Gatehouse from the 5th to the 29th September.
Casting has now been announced for the upcoming London revival of Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys From Syracuse heading to the stage next month.
The 1938 musical comedy based on The Comedy of Errors is being brought back for its first London revival for 10 years by director Mark Giesser, who will be directing: Caroline Kennedy (Sweeney Todd), Georgie Faith (Call Me Madam), Karen Wilkinson (Standing at the Sky’s Edge), Bernadine Pritchett (The Phantom of the Opera), John Faal (Sense and Sensibility: The Musical), Brendan Matthew, Simon de Deney and Enzo Benvenuti.
Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio, arrive in Ephesus as part of a long search for their respective identical twins from whom they were separated as children during a shipwreck. But citizens of Syracuse caught in Ephesus are subject to the death penalty. As fate has it, there’s another Antipholus who’s an established citizen of Ephesus, served by another Dromio. Confusions multiply as wives are baffled by husbands, one twin is wrongly jailed and Antipholus of Syracuse falls in love with his wife’s sister – or does he?
Rodgers and Hart’s score for the musical includes the songs Falling in Love with Love, This Can’t Be Love and Sing for Your Supper. The musical was also adapted for a Hollywood film in 1940, and has been revived continuously since its Broadway debut, mostly in the USA. It first came to the West End in 1963 following a major Off-Broadway revival, and was revived at Regents Open Air Theatre in 1991 in a production directed by Dame Judi Dench.
Talking about the production, Director Mark Giesser said: “I’ve always been a big fan of Lorenz Hart’s sophisticated, ironic and yet emotionally touching lyric writing, and I think his brilliant collaboration with Richard Rodgers is often overshadowed today by the enduring popularity of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s subsequent work. Rodgers and Hammerstein are credited with perfecting the classic American musical form, but the Rodgers and Hart partnership certainly laid the foundation for that success. Their work should be given every bit as much attention, and in particular, The Boys From Syracuse, combining the Rodgers and Hart genius with the book- writing finesse of the great George Abbott, is a show with which modern devotees of classic musicals should be more familiar.”
The creative team behind this revival also includes: Choreographer Jared Hageman
Costumes by Alice McNicholas, Lighting by Sam M Owen, Set by Intellectual Propery
and Stage Manager Denisha Parmenter.
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