End of The Rainbow at Trafalgar Studios London West End
End of The Rainbow at Trafalgar Studios London West End
Olivier Award winning star of Hairspray Tracie Bennett gets back on to the West End Stage in Peter Quilter's new play based on the later life of Judy Garland. Directed by the multiple commemorated award winning Terry Johnson, End Of The Rainbow received five star critical reviews and also nightly standing ovations upon its pre London performances.
It's December 1968 and Judy Garland is going to make her comeback... once more. In a London hotel suite together with her youthful new future husband at her side, Garland struggles with a tornado of drugs as well as alcohol consumption as she undertakes an exhausting series of shows at the Talk of the Town to attempt to recover her crown as the greatest natural talent associated with her era.
Despite a number of failed marriages along with a damaged Hollywood career, Judy remains to be a tough, persuasive, amazing lady generally equipped to the teeth with her legendary razor-sharp humor.
Featuring the breathtaking performance by Tracie Bennet the production boasts a number of Garland's classic melodies, including the Man That Got Away, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Trolley Song and Somewhere Over the Rainbow, with a live onstage band.
Trafalgar Studios brief history: Formerly the Whitehall Theatre, Trafalgar Studios is two new theatre studios in one location in the middle of the London's West End. Starting up with the RSC's production of Othello, the bigger space provides roughly 380 seats. Othello was followed by the Watermill Theatre's celebrated production of Sweeney Todd.
Architects Tim Foster and John Muir have created two new intimate and compelling theatre spaces designed to insert a fresh energy as well as thrills into the location as well as in to the West End. The Whitehall theatre opened in 1930 with a transfer of The Way to Treat a Woman by Walter Hackett (also the theatre's licensee). He offered several more highly very successful plays of his own until eventually departing in 1934. The theatre continued to build its good reputation for popular modern comedies all through the 1930s.
During the war this proven method was turned down to be replaced by revue shows, which were extremely popular in other regions within London's West End. In 1942, The Whitehall Follies premiered, featuring a non-stop performance by Phyllis Dixey, people flocked in, mainly because of the fact that the celebrated Miss Dixey was prominent for being the very first stripper in the West End!
In the mid-eighties, under Ian B Albery, there was considerable refurbishment to correspond to the new program of top quality theatre. The majority of the building's unique art deco features were retained, as well as the Whitehall reopened with a very flourishing revival of J B Priestley's When We are Married.
Highlights of the late 1980's and early 1990's include Run for Your Wife, Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular and A Tribute to the Blues Brothers. Various other popular productions consist of Cooking With Elvis starring Frank Skinner, Only the Lonely, Trainspotting and John Godber's Bouncers. The theatre has additionally played host to radio and television shows and live theatre running at the same time. At present appearing is End of The Rainbow. South africa crusher,Metal crusher,Roller crusher Why Christmas Lights Have Stood the Test of Time Merrie Monarch Festival: Celebrating Hawaiian Tradition Long Beach Caterer - What They Can Help With Santa Cruz Holiday Rentals and A Way To Take pleasure in Santa Cruz Festivals Performances of Antiguan actors lauded at CaribbeanTales Film Festival The Applications of LED Strip Oakajee denies Australian report of cost blow out Festivals add Colour to Coonoor French Toast Recipe North India Tour - Famous Destinations Tour Explore Top Five Monuments to Visit on India Travel Tour Golden Triangle and Yoga Meditation Tour- Explore Incredible India And Take Yoga Classes to Stay Fit