Image © lwinram.comThe first professional UK production since its 1980 premiere
The Biograph Girl
Book by Warner Brown
Lyrics by Warner Brown and David Heneker
Music by David Heneker

22nd May – 9th June 2018.
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Saturday & Sunday matinees at 3pm.
Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Rd, Kensington, London SW10 9ED

From the composer of Half A Sixpence, a joyous musical celebration of Hollywood's glorious era of silent film – beginning in 1912 when disreputable “flickers” are shown in fleapits and no self-respecting actor will appear in them, and ending in 1927 with movies now a glamorous, multi-million dollar industry and the first talking pictures signal the doom of silent films. In a breath taking sweep of just fifteen years, the great innovative directors created filmmaking as we know it today, ground breaking movie moguls laid the foundations of the entertainment industry, and trail blazing actors launched the Hollywood star system.

Weaving together the heartbreaks and triumphs of the flawed genius director D. W. Griffith and the first movie stars Lilian Gish and Mary Pickford, The Biograph Girl is a love letter to the stardust and scandals of the silent movie era.

The libretto has been especially revised for this production by its original co-writer Warner Brown and includes – for the very first time – the reintroduction of songs cut from the West End premiere production.

The Biograph Girl is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD

Directed by Jenny Eastop
Cast: Matthew Cavendish, Lauren Chinery, Joshua C Jackson, Emily Langham, Jonathan Leinmuller, Sophie Linder-Lee, Jason Morell, Charlie Ryall and Nova Skipp.

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