Callow as Woman’s Next Count Fosco???
Date: 28 July 2005
Following the recent cast takeover in
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whatsonstage.com Award-winning musical
The Woman in White (See
News 17 Jun 2005), there are already rumours of more major changes afoot.
Simon Callow is tipped to play the next Count Fosco, perhaps taking over as soon as the end of August when
Anthony Andrews (who replaced
Michael Ball on 2 May 2005) finishes his contract. Although Callow is best known to theatregoers for his roles in myriad plays such as, most recently,
Through the Leaves, Holy Terror and
The Mystery of Charles Dickens (not to mention his many film appearances in the likes of
Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bright Young Things and
Shakespeare in Love), the musical casting isn’t as far a leap as it might seem. Callow has already played Count Fosco in a 1997 (non-musical) TV adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ Victorian novel and, in terms of the Lloyd Webber connection, he played Andre in last year’s screen version of
The Phantom of the Opera.
The Woman in White has a book by
Charlotte Jones, with lyrics by
David Zippel set to Lloyd Webber’s score. It’s directed by
Trevor Nunn and designed by
William Dudley.
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