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| Betty Buckley |
Have a look below at the cast of Dear World, currently in previews at the Charing Cross Theatre, in action! The production stars Betty Buckley and Paul Nicholas and is directed and choreographed by Gillian Lynne. Click on images to enlarge.
Dear World premiered on Broadway in 1969 starring Angela Lansbury, who went on to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of the’ Countess Aurelia’, and Milo O’Shea as the ‘Sewerman’.
Based on Jean Giraudoux's play The Madwoman of Chaillot, it centres around the Countess, living in the basement of a Parisian bistrot in 1945, driven mad by a lost lover and bemoaning her past. When oil is discovered under the streets of the city, she and her motley crew of acquaintances must band together to stop rapacious businessmen from destroying her home, and indeed all of Paris.
This surreal musical fable of Good versus Evil (ahead of its time in 1969), with its themes of environmental degradation, corporate greed, evil and human folly, is a resonant and cautionary tale in a post-Enron world.
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| Anthony Barclay, Peter Land, Robert Meadmore, Stuart Matthew Price, Jack Rebaldi |
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| Rebecca Lock, Annabel Leventon, Betty Buckley |
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| Nina Treharne, Betty Buckley, Stuart Matthew Price |
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| Betty Buckley, Paul Nicholas |
Dear World runs at the Charing Cross Theatre until 30th March 2013, with a press night on Wednesday 13th February. Box Office: 08444 930650
Photo Credit: Eric Richmond
I loved it, its a sublime folly of a show with a warm eager heart with many a message on love and how to treat this planet of ours MS
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