Top Hat
From: Tuesday, 16th August 2011
To: Saturday, 27 August 2011
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Synopsis
The 1935 film centres on American dancer Jerry Travers (Astaire) who is working for bumbling producer Horace Hardwick in London. When Jerry practices his new dance routine late one night in Horace's hotel, it wakes the sleeping Dale Tremont (Rogers) below. When she goes upstairs to complain, the two are immediately attracted to each other, but complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace, who is married to her friend.
Our Review:
2 September 2011
There’s been a recent trend among producers searching for hit theatrical material to plunder the movie back catalogues in the hope of finding a property that has instant recognisable appeal to audiences.
And while there’s a huge debate to be had about the stifling of new creativity and the failure to develop emerging talent, you can kind of see the point: shows such as Legally Blonde, Dirty Dancing and Footloose already have a head start when it comes to making their money back.
So after the stage success of the Irving Berlin film musical White Christmas, it was only natural that another Berlin movie colossus should be on the target list. Step forward Top Hat, a new stage version of the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers vehicle that was the RKO studio’s biggest earner of the 1930s, and launched with a world premiere in the traditionally glitzy, glamorous, star-studded environs of… Milton Keynes.
It’s a canny move (staging Top Hat, that is, not giving t...
Creative
Irving Berlin (Music)
Irving Berlin (Lyrics)
Kenny Wax (Producer)
Matthew White (Adaptation)
Howard Jacques (Adaptation)
Matthew White (Director)
Bill Deamer (Choreographer)
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