Singin' in the Rain
From: Tuesday, 19th May 2009
To: Saturday, 23 May 2009
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Synopsis
Popular musical production adapted from the film. Songs include Singin in the Rain, You Were Meant for Me, You Are My Lucky Star and others. The story is one of two hot silent movie stars and a young hopeful all hit by the changes around the introduction of the talkies.
Our Review:
22 May 2009
Talk about a tough act to follow. The film version of Singin’ in the Rain is an iconic piece of 20th century entertainment history, and Gene Kelly’s splashing tap dance through the puddles is regularly voted one of the greatest movie moments of all time.
Even the stage version, adapted as late as 1980 by the original screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green, itself became a landmark production, giving Tommy Steele one of his biggest hits in a hit-filled career.
Now UK Productions are taking the show out on the road again, complete with those fabulous song-and-dance numbers, a superbly drilled live band and, yes, buckets of rain.
Stepping into the two-tone tap shoes is experienced leading man Tim Flavin – not quite a name of John Barrowman proportions, but with all the qualifications and bags of talent. He evokes Kelly’s matchless warmth and ease with understated charm, and both his voice and his feet are unquestionably up to the...
Cast
Tim Flavin (Don Lockwood)
Creative
Betty Comden (Author)
Adolph Green (Author)
Nacio Herb Brown (Author)
Arthur Freed (Author)
Peter Frosdick (Producer)
Martin Dodd (for UK Production Ltd) (Producer)
Alison Pollard (Director)
Alison Pollard (Choreographer)
Gareth Williams (musical supervision) (Music)
Charles Camm (Design)
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