Sadlers Wells
Sadler’s Wells has announced the new season of Lost Musicals, which will showcase three ‘neglected’ musicals at the Lillian Baylis Theatre in London and the National Portrait Gallery.
Lost Musicals has been running for 20 years, and gives director Ian Marshall Fisher the opportunity to showcase three musicals thought to have been lost in time. From some of the finest writers and composers of American Broadway musicals, this season brings us Paris by Cole Porter, The Day Before Spring by Frederick Loewe, and The Darling Of The Day, based on The Great Adventure by Arnold Bennett and adapted to musical by Jule Styne.
Paris follows the hilarious journey of Cora Sabbott, who follows her son to Paris in order to put a stop to his love affair with a French actress. This early Porter musical features the song ‘Let’s Do It’, and will be showing at The Lillian Baylis theatre in London.
Also at The Lillian Baylis Theatre is The Day Before Spring, a little known musical Lerner and Loewe (My Fair Lady, Gigi). A happily married woman attending a college reunion runs into her former lover, who has written a book about their affair. This particular production will feature lost material from the show, only recently recovered in 2009.
Lastly in The Darling Of The Day at the National Portrait Gallery, an artist fakes his own death to attain anonymity, but his work mysteriously continues to appear as he carries on painting.
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