Deadline Hollywood Columnist & Int Editor at Large -Ex Trustee Kiln Theatre - Film- Theatre-TV-Politics- (Dogs:Keeshond & Shiba Inu) .Views are my own.
#oliviadehavilland
, star of a bygone Hollywood age has died aged 104. She had a storied career ,winning best actress
@TheAcademy
awards for To Each His Own & The Heiress. To many though , she’ll be remembered as kind-hearted Melanie in Gone With the Wind.
#RIP
Breaking: EVAN has been found!
@samtutty
a graduate
@ItaliaContiUK
has been cast to play title role
@DEHWestEnd
. He did not believe
@ProductionsSMNY
was on the phone offering him the role. “I put the phone on silent and screamed for 35 seconds. “
I was 30 when I saw my birth mother for the first time in 27 years.Fixing flowers in a church ( in Nigeria) , she hadn’t been expecting me. She turned around. Her face! The biggest smile, ever. Tears.That moment.Imprinted.I never saw her again.Happy
#MothersDay
.
Samantha Barks can’t hold it back any more -
@SamanthaBarks
is going to Let It Go and star as Elsa in
@frozenlondon
next October. Barks told me she’s “honoured” to have been picked by dir
@MichaelGrandage
&
@disney
theatrical productions to play Elsa.
Devastating statement by
@CamMackLtd
about future of his staff and theatres - and he attacks government for its “lack of support” for the theatre industry . The
#government
must act now without delay.
I watched the entirety of
@JoshOConnor15
‘s performance as Charles across season 3 & 4 of
@TheCrownNetflix
-echoes of Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone in his brooding heir ;Richard II ,too - it’s phenomenal acting .
#EmmaCorrin
‘s incredible too. Unmissable television.
Breaking: Come Hear the Music Play.
#EddieRedmayne
and
#JessieBuckley
close to completing negotiations to play the Emcee ( Redmayne has long dreamt of playing the role in the W.End) & Sally Bowles in Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret at Playhouse Theatre. Likely from early November 2021.
Quite rightly , much discourse about
@ALWCinderella
cast not being informed in a timely fashion about show posting notice to close on June 12. Closure was being finalised several days ago.Cast could have been told days ago - well before public announcement.
Exciting news:
@kealasettle
,a star on Broadway ,who went on to blast her way to chart success with This Is Me , will make her mark on the W.End stage as the Nurse in
@julietmusical
from March 29, joining
@MiriamTeakLee
&
@cassidyjanson
.
Grim news. Theatres in London to be told that they will have to shut down after Tuesday night’s performances.
@CamMackLtd
said “ After Tuesday night we have no idea when theatres are to be allowed to reopen again ,” said
@CamMackLtd
. “It’s a Christmas fiasco.”
Once more unto the breach , dear friends:
@RealChalamet
told me that he will begin filming
#TheKing
for
@Netflix
next month where will play
#HenryV
- before he became monarch he was known as
#Hal
, which happens to be the actor’s middle name (you all know that !)
Exclusive:Hello Mr Waltz... we’ve been expecting you.
#ChristophWaltz
is back as
#Blofeld
in
@007
#Bond25
, shooting scenes at Pinewood studios . When a visitor spotted him , Waltz insisted , “You haven’t seen me.”
Heartbreaking news.
#HelenMcCrory
. We’ve lost the most luminous actor. Great thespian.Heart of gold, selfless. Deepest condolences to Damian ,Manon ,Gulliver , friends and family .
#RIP
Practically Perfect casting:
@ZiziStrallen
(a luminous Mary Poppins) and
@Charlie_Stemp
( a perfect Bert) star in new prod
@MaryPoppins
opening Prince Edward Autumn 2019. Visit
Btw, according to a note posted recently by
@ShentonStage
,
@Harry_Styles
and
#LinusRoache
share the same February 1st birthday - when ‘Jupiter aligns with Mars.’ They probably won’t see much of each other on
#MyPoliceman
set ‘cause they’re playing the same title character .
Welcome BACK to the Rock! Hit musical
@ComeFromAwayUK
staging Come From Away:The Concert
@Phoenix_Ldn
February 10-27 ,21 performances,self- distancing on&off stage.Producer Joe Smith told me full cast & band will perform with minimal props & costumes.Tix from Fri
Let it Go:
@FrozenBroadway
has negotiated to take the
#DisneyTheatrical
musical to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2020 (date to be determined) .Too early to know whether
@CaissieLevy
will play Elsa in London , or whether show will be cast with British actors .
Breaking: Loverly news!
#AmaraOkereke
will play Eliza Doolittle in director
@bartlett_sher
‘s glorious
@LCTheater
production of
@MyFairLadyUK
which will run
@E_N_O
London Coliseum from May 7. Amara became “obsessed” with MFL from the age of six - has watched film 200 times.
I’ve had a great run in Fleet St & with the Daily Mail. Sad to be leaving my brilliant team. I want to thank them and the fab colleagues I’ve been lucky enough to work with.
Daily Mail entertainment columnist Baz Bamigboye
@BazBam
is stepping down in March after almost 40 years. He will join Deadline later in the year. More on our job moves page here:
Star actor
@killiandonnelly
will be ‘inside your mind’ when he leads
@PhantomOpera
back to Her Majesty’s .
@CamMackLtd
told me show plans to preview from June 5 if govt social distancing rules are lifted.He said Phantom needs to play at full capacity 1/2.
Breaking:’Curtain up,light the lights:
@CamMackLtd
has revealed that Queen’s Theatre will become the
#Sondheim
Theatre in honour of musical genius
#StephenSondheim
. “Steve’s the first living artist to have his name on a theatre on the Avenue, “ Mackintosh told me.
Gotta love
#KristenStewart
, she really rocks with that cigarette tucked behind behind her ear. It has a sort of ,I’m with the workers vibe about it, or whatever.
#cannesfilmfestival
75th anniversary dinner.
If you’re in the vicinity of the Sondheim Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue then please sign the book of condolence that Cameron Mackintosh has set up to honour
#StephenSondheim
.
The stars are going to twinkle and shine:
@bonnie_langford
will step into role of Dorothy Brock
@42ndStreetLDN
from September 3. ( Photo shows Ms.Langford dressed for the part).
Smash hit
@MoulinRougeBway
is heading to London early 2021. Dir
#AlexTimbers
was in London last week to check out stage & auditorium at the Piccadilly Theatre run by
@ATGTICKETS
. My info hasn’t been “confirmed” so let’s call it A-grade “informed “ speculation
Breaking:”Does anybody have a map?”
@RebeccaMcKinni6
will play Heidi , Evan’s mum , in
@DEHWestEnd
.
@ProductionsSMNY
told me that the creative team along with
@JGreenCasting
knew they had found Heidi the minute Ms.McKinnis walked into the room.
Breaking: Holy Moly- It’s good to be a nun, again .
@WhoopiGoldberg
will will join
@ferrifrump
in the London 2020 run of
@sisteractsocial
. For full details check out all the divine stuff that’s apparently being announced in the a.m.
I hope
@OliverDowden
&
@BorisJohnson
&
@RishiSunak
is watching
@ITV
and the terrific thespians being lauded
@OlivierAwards
. These people are artists . Without them there’s no tv , no music , no movies, no songs . Imagine life without art? Impossible isn’t it?!
“All We See Is Sky Forever”
@DearEvanHansen
will open at the
#NoelCoward
Theatre in November 2019 producer
@ProductionsSMNY
confirmed to me .”Funnily enough the Noel Coward has a blue stage door,” said producer Stacey Mindich.