When Harry Met Barry Met Paul in the West End???

Two years ago, Paul Emelion's new musical When Harry Met Barry was a finalist in the Vivian Ellis awards; this year, it had a well-received summer run at the fringe Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate, north London; and next year, it's on to bigger and better things still. Producer Paul Elliott has picked up the rights and is now working the original 75-minute piece up into a full-length show that he plans to bring into the West End in the spring. A musical fantasy, When Harry Met Barry is set in the clubs and cabarets of Soho where in cognito angel Betty Blue engineers romances for trendy clubber Spencer with TV chef Harry and then bookshop girl Alice with hunky lawyer Barry...but she didn't count on the rekindling of an old friendship when Harry and Barry bump into each other in the back of a taxi. The new production will be directed once again by Stuart Wood and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, and Elliott hopes to retain some of the Gatehouse's five-strong cast, not least the 'sensational' Nicola Dawn who played Alice.

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