Barbican Centre Unearths Lost Musicals Date: 3 March 1998
As part of its year-long programme celebrating American culture, Inventing America, the Barbican Centre will be staging a season of lost musicals. Running Sunday afternoons from 26 April 1998, the programme of semi-staged live performances with piano accompaniment will include rarely performed works by the Gershwins, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin, Alan Jay Lerner, Sir Arthur Sullivan and Stephen Sondheim. The programme will end Friday 18 September with a celebration of the Gershwin Century - a one-off performance of the Gershwin / Kaufman 1927 show Strike Up the Band, staged for the first time in the Barbican Hall with full orchestra. Director/producer Ian Marshall Fisher has worked closely with the estates and families of the writers to rediscover and reconstruct the shows. They will be performed by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, English National Opera and several current West End productions. In all, 700 performers will be participating, including the likes of Henry Goodman, currently starring as the slick lawyer in Chicago at the Adelphi.
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