Dreamboats and Petticoats at Playhouse Theatre London West End

[I:http://www.thedailycomments.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/NeilPagham30.jpg]Inspired by the albums, Bill Kenwright and Laurie Mansfield in association with Universal Music present Dreamboats and Petticoats The Musical, written by Marks and Gran, the team behind Goodnight Sweetheart, Birds Of A Feather, and Shine On Harvey Moon, will provide you with the greatest time of your life – taking you back to a time when each passing week brought an additional classic track. Featuring songs from Roy Orbison, The Shadows, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury, Chuck Berry and several more.

Dreamboats and Petticoats brief synopsis: In 1961 emotions run high as talented young musicians Norman and Bobby compete to win the hearts of their adoring female fans – and more importantly, the gorgeous Laura. But when Laura shows that she’s no slouch using the guitar, rock ‘n’ roll fame beckons. Featuring the hit songs Lets Dance, To Know Him Is to Adore Him, Shaking All Over, In Dreams, Bobby’s Girl, Three Actions To Heaven, Little Town Flirt, Only Sixteen, Practically Grown, Sleepwalk, Runaround Sue, The Locomotion, Happy Birthday Sweet 16, What A Wonderful World, Half Strategy to Paradise, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, Let’s Twist Once again and numerous more hits from music’s golden era!

The Royal Avenue Theatre opened on the 11th March 1882 having a revival of Offenbach’s Madam Favart. The prefix “Royal” was soon dropped from the theatre’s name, but comic operas, burlesques and also the like remained the staple fare for numerous years. For considerably of this time, Arthur Roberts, a well-known star of the music halls, led the firm at the Avenue. In the early 1890s the emphasis changed to drama and in 1894 Miss Horniman, the tea heiress, later a pioneer of the repertory movement, anonymously sponsored the actress Florence Farr in a season of plays. Sadly, the first production failed but Miss Farr persuaded her friend, a certain George Bernard Shaw, to finish his play, Arms and also the Man, as a speedy replacement and his very first West End production. It was successful enough to enable him to drop his music criticism in favour of play writing. Since then, the lovely Playhouse has hosted the likes of WS Gilbert, legendary actress-manager Gladys Cooper, the BBC, The Almeida Theatre Company, The Peter Hall Business, and Janet McTeer.

In January 2003, Maidstone Productions became the new independent owners of the Theatre. Maidstone Productions, belonging to London and Broadway producers Ted and Norman Tulchin, has been behind a string of hit productions on both sides of the Atlantic, which includes Gagarin Way, Eden and Vincent in Brixton within the West End; Yazmina Reza’s The Unexpected Man, at the same time as Donald Margulies’ Dinner with Pals, which won the Pulitzer Prize. This was in addition to Turgenev’s Fortune’s Fool on Broadway, starring Alan Bates and Frank Langella, both winning Tony Awards for greatest actor and best supporting actor.

In March 2003, the Ambassador Theatre Group took over the stewardship of the Playhouse Theatre and is responsible for the theatre’s management and programming, working with Maidstone Productions as well as the team at the theatre. Recent productions consist of Richard Eyre’s production Vincent in Brixton starring Clare Higgins and Journey’s End directed by David Grindley. Currently playing is Dreamboats and Petticoats.

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