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Opening: Cyberjam, Pericles, Blood & Chitty RecastDate: 22 September 2003
Amongst the major London openings taking place this week are:
OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 22 September 2003, at the London Palladium, the new cast of high-flying stage adaptation of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang face the critics. Fresh faces include Gary Wilmot as Caractacus Potts (replacing Michael Ball), Russ Abbot as Grandpa Potts and dancer Wayne Sleep as the ChildCatcher. The £6.2 million musical, based on the famous 1968 children's film, is currently taking bookings up to 13 March 2004.
OPENING TUESDAY, 23 September 2003 (previews from 4 September), at the Queen's Theatre, is Cyberjam, the new show from the American troupe behind the Tony Award-winning hit Blast!, which premiered in London in 1999. Billed as a "spectacular fusion of music, dance and technology" that aims to push "the boundaries of music performance into the 21st century", Cyberjam has already announced a two-month extension to its booking period, now scheduled up to 20 December 2003 (See News, 16 Sep 2003).
OPENING WEDNESDAY, 24 September 2003 (previews from 18 September), at west London's Lyric Hammersmith, Will Keen (The Coast of Utopia, The Duchess of Malfi) takes the title role in artistic director Neil Bartlett's production of Shakespeare's Pericles (pictured). The actor and director previously worked together on The Prince of Homburg, co-produced by the Lyric with the RSC.
DON'T MISS our offer to see Pericles for a fiver - ends 24 September - click here for info!
OPENING THURSDAY, 25 September 2003 (previews from 18 September), Blood, by Swedish playwright Lars Noren, receives its London premiere at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, where it continues to 25 October 2003 (See News, 29 Jul 2003).
Francesca Annis (The Vortex, Ghosts) and Nicholas Le Prevost (Much Ado About Nothing, My Fair Lady) play Rosa and Eric Sabato, Chilean exiles who were imprisoned and tortured - and had their son taken away - during the Pinchoet regime in 1974. Blood is translated into English by Maja Zade and directed at the Royal Court by James Macdonald
- by Terri Paddock
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