Crazy for You
Organised by : Chichester Festival Theatre
This hilarious, riotously entertaining musical is packed with glorious Gershwin melodies (including Someone to Watch Over Me, Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm and They Cant Take That Away from Me), and its stunning tap-dance routines are guaranteed to set the spirits soaring. The witty book and dialogue are written by Ken Ludwig, who also wrote this seasons Murder on the Orient Express and is the author of the Tony Award-winning Lend Me a Tenor.
Charlie Stemp plays Bobby, returning to Chichester where he played Arthur Kipps in Half A Sixpence in 2016, for which he won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Musical and received Olivier and UK Theatre Award nominations. Carly Anderson (Wicked, Sunny Afternoon, Sunset Boulevard) plays Polly.
This brand new production, which celebrates the works 30th
anniversary, is directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman: true Broadway
royalty and winner of five Tony and two Olivier Awards for productions
including The Producers, Contact and The Scottsboro Boys.
Theatre-mad Bobby Child is torn between his show-business
dreams and his rich, demanding New York fiancée and rich, demanding New York
mother who want him to run the family bank. On his mothers insistence, he reluctantly
heads west for the bygone mining town of Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on a
mortgage.
There he finds the mortgage in question is on a dilapidated
Victorian theatre and the owners daughter Polly is the girl of his dreams.
Desperate to prove his good faith and win her love, Bobby lights on the idea of
putting on a show complete with glamorous dancers from New Yorks Follies
to save the theatre and renew the town
There will be a Dementia Friendly performance on 1
September at 2.30pm.