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Young Vic’s Annie Sets Sights on West End???

Editorial Staff
London's West End

At last week’s Whatsonstage.com Outing to Annie Get Your Gun at the Young Vic, artistic director David Lan hinted that he’s keen to transfer the critically-acclaimed revival, which stars Jane Horrocks and Julian Ovenden, to the West End.

At our post show Q&A with Lan and the cast, he said in response to a question regarding a potential transfer: “We would very much like to … It depends on a number of factors, the most obvious of which is whether there is a theatre of the right size and the right shape available for us … But we would love it if there was.”

When asked if he would take the production to the Midlands or further north his response was: “If you sort out the weather, yes.”

Irving Berlin’s classic Broadway musical has been given a radical reworking in Richard Jones‘ new production, which has attracted both rave reviews as well as its fair share of detractors (See Review Round-up, 19 Oct 2009). Horrocks and Ovenden lead the cast as Annie and Frank, the would-be lovers and sharp-shooting rivals.

For extensive edited highlights from last week’s Q&A, click here. And for information on our upcoming WOS Outings, including Comedians at the Lyric Hammersmith tomorrow night (27 October 2009), click here.