Marguerite
From: Wednesday, 7th May 2008
To: Saturday, 13 September 2008
Our Review: 
Your Reviews:
Search for tickets
Use the link below to search for Marguerite tickets on your desired date.
We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.
| Tweet |
|
Synopsis
A love story set in Paris during the Second World War, Marguerite draws inspiration from one of the greatest of romantic novels, La Dame aux Camellias by Alexandre Dumas. Marguerite is the beautiful and notorious mistress of a high ranking German officer. Armand is a young musician half her age who falls obsessively in love with her, her dangerous love story is played out against the background of occupied Paris.
Our Review:
21 May 2008
Marguerite is a strange new musical to find in the West End at the moment, a glossily produced update of La dame aux camellias by Alexandre Dumas and its Verdi version, La traviata, set among the collaborators in Occupied France with more than a touch of a corny old French Resistance film such as Anna Neagle in Odette, and a heroine skewered in an emotional, middle-aged crisis.
Instead of dying of consumption, though, Ruthie Henshall’s vivacious Parisian courtesan Marguerite is sleeping with the enemy – Nazi officer Otto, gruffly played by Alexander Hanson – and turning 40. Her party is interrupted by an air raid and, when the windows are blown out in a spectacular explosion, she’s thrown into the arms of a jazz pianist who has already fallen in love with her. They kiss. They are doomed.
The pianist Armand is half her age, or supposed to be; Julian Ovenden’s dominating personality and sex appeal are slightly scuppered by t...
Latest User Review
Janet J. - 3 June 2009:
Ruthie is the best. Puts ALL others to shame!...
Cast
Ruthie Henshall (Marguerite)
Julian Ovenden
Alexander Hanson
Annalene Beechey
Matt Cross
Don Gallagher
Simon Thomas
Mark Carroll
Keiron Crook
James Doherty
Siubhan Harrison
Jon-Paul Hevey
Julia J. Nagle
Duncan Smith
Gay Soper
Phillip Sutton
Lucy Williamson
Andrew C. Wadsworth
Creative
Michel Legrand (Music)
Alain Boublil (Book)
Claude-Michel Schonberg (Book)
Jonathan Kent (Book)
Herbert Kretzmer (from the original French lyrics by Alain Boublil) (Lyrics)
Theatre Royal Haymarket (Producer)
Michel Legrand (orchestrations and arrangements) (Music)
Seann Alderking (orchestrations and arrangements) (Music)
Jonathan Kent (Director)
Paul Brown (Design)
Paul Groothuis (Sound)
Mark Henderson (Lighting)
Related Whatsonstage.com Articles
Information
|
