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Tap Dogs

Friday, April 30th, 2010

For the first time in 13 years the hit dance show Tap Dogs returns to the West End. The show opens this June at the Novello Theatre and theatre tickets will be on sale through to September.

West End heartthrob Adam Garcia is set to star in the show, which premiered in Sydney in 1995 at the Sydney Theatre Festival. It then transferred to the Edinburgh festival, before enjoying a run at Sadler’s Wells. Tap Dogs finally made its West End debut at the Lyric Theatre in London on Shaftesbury Avenue. Following a worldwide tour, the show is ready to be reunited with London’s theatreland.

Tap Dogs is set on a construction site, where the men and women have grown up in the surroundings of the steel making industry. Dressed in vests, faded jeans and work boots, the construction workers begin to tap out rhythms with their feet, which evolves into a mesmerising series of movement and dance sequences using the materials of the site. Ladders, ropes, iron rods and water are just some of the equipment converted into musical instruments in this inspired performance. The show also contains touching elements of wit and humour, keeping the audience visually and mentally stimulated form beginning to end.

Tap Dogs has been choreographed by Dein Perry, who conceived the original show, which has gone on to win an Olivier award. Direction and design is by Nick Triffitt.

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The Novello Theatre

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

The Novello Theatre in London has announced theatre tickets for Grumpy Old Women 2 – Chin Up Britain, starring Jenny Eclair, and following her Grumpy Old Women Live tour of last year.

Eclair has co-written the show with producer of the television series Grumpy Old Woman, Judith Holder.

Billed as “pre, peri and post menopausal female condition”, the extremely popular TV show attracted 4.8 million viewers an episode, with Christmas specials drawing in up to five million. The first live stage debut took place in 2005.

This latest show, which had its debut on tour last year, promises a “belly full of new grumps and handy hints on getting through these hard times the grumpy way”.

The show even features the ‘grumpometer’, which will measure levels of grumpiness. Jenny Eclair has appeared in the live shows from the beginning, and is joined this time round by fellow cast members Susie Blake and Wendi Peters.

Owen Lewis directs at the theatre in London, with design by Susannah Henry, sound by Nick Manning and lighting by Matt Vietch.

At The Novello Theatre currently is A Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, where an all black cast leads Debbie Allen’s production of Tennessee Williams well known play. James Earl Jones stars, alongside Adrian Lester, Phylicia Rashad and Sanaa Lathan. Theatre tickets for the show are on sale now.

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