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Grease Star Caulfield Makes UK Debut in ChicagoDate: 21 May 2007
American screen and stage actor Maxwell Caulfield – who starred with a young Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1982 movie musical sequel Grease 2 – will make his UK stage debut next week in the West End production of Chicago. He’ll play super-slick lawyer Billy Flynn for a limited five-week stint, from 29 May to 30 June 2007, in the Kander and Ebb musical at the Cambridge Theatre.
In addition to Grease 2, a cult favourite, Caulfield is best known for his starring roles in American TV series Dynasty and The Colbys. He’s performed on Broadway in An Inspector Calls and Class Enemy, while his other stage credits include Tryst, My Deah, Our Leading Lady, My Night with Reg, Sleuth and The Elephant Man. His other screen credits include La Femme Nikita, The Real Blonde, The Boys Next Door, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman.
As Billy Flynn, he steps into shoes previously filled by the likes of Tony Hadley, Marti Pellow, Sacha Distel, Darius Danesh, John Barrowman, Henry Goodman and fellow American screen star David Hasselhoff in the London production.
The current revival of Chicago opened at the Cambridge Theatre (where the musical’s original London production ran for 603 performances from April 1979) on 28 April 2006, after eight-and-a-half years at the Adelphi Theatre. It won the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production as well as the 1998 Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical.
Kander and Ebb’s 1975 musical is based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins and has a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The current stage revival, which transferred from Broadway, is directed by Walter Bobbie and designed by John Lee Beatty, with choreography by Ann Reinking in the style of Bob Fosse.
- by Terri Paddock
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