Five Reasons To See…Phillip Cox in The Glee Club
September 3, 2008
Actor and singer Philip Cox (pictured, right) has appeared in countless touring and West End shows over the past 25 years, including Aspects Of Love. He stars as Bant in Roger Haines’ production of Richard Cameron’s The Glee Club, at the Library Theatre in Manchester (19 Sept - 18 Oct).
The Glee Club, made up of five hard working, hard drinking miners and a church organist, is preparing for the local gala. Though they’re established on the working men’s club circuit, they aren’t exactly at the vanguard of the musical revolution. Sometimes compassion and understanding, as well as bigotry and cowardice, can come from the most unlikely of places. This is the summer of 1962; music and much else is about to change - so too the lives of these six men.
Phillip takes time out from rehearsals, to give you five good reasons to see him in The Glee Club.
1. Bant is a complete contrast to my last role in Aspects of Love, in which I played Marcel, the actor/manager who nurtures his perfect leading lady.
2. It’s a play about miners - working miners. They are not on strike and they don’t strip (at least not to music). But they do SING.
3. It is set in 1962 and it’s FUNNY.
4. It is set in 1962 and it’s TRAGIC.
5. There is a great cast and some great music - and all for as little as £7.50.
-Phillip Cox (pic, Gerry Murray)
Check out the Library Theatre website for more details.
Tickets are available from the Library Theatre box office on 0161 236 7110.
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Saw this show last night (20-09-2008) and Phillip Cox and the entire cast and crew deserve high praise for the energy and perfection in their performance! A real ensemble story about real people and I for one can highly recommend making the effort to catch this show while you can. Nice to see this show knowing the Labour Party conference of broken promise was taking place yards from the theatre as the curtain went up