The Lost Musicals Season Announced

The Lost Musicals Season Announced

Ian Marshall Fisher's Lost Musicals series of semi staged performances at the Lillian Baylis Theatre at Sadler's Wells have been announced...

Sundays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 April at 4pm
Can-Can, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Abe Burrows. Directed Ian Marshall Fisher, starring Valerie Cutko (La Mome Pistache), Christopher Dickins (Judge Aristide Forestier), Selina Chilton (Claudine), Lara Denning, Sarah Applewood, Joanna Fell, Stewart Permutt, James Vaughan, Ahmet Ahmet, Christopher Stanton, David Phipps Davis, Alex Brown, Fabio Tassone. Musical direction by Mark Etherington. The comedy musical is set in Paris in 1893 and challenges the indecency laws in Le Bal du Paradis, a dance hall.

Sundays 10, 17, 24 June, 1, 8 July at 4pm
Around The World in Eighty Days, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Orson Welles. Based on Verne's 'Around The World In Eighty Days'. Directed Ian Marshall Fisher. Includes the numbers 'There He Goes Mr Phileas Fogg', 'Should I Tell You I Love You? and 'Snagtooth Gertie'.

All performances have introductory talks by guest speakers.