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15/06/2009 00:00:00 |
REHEARSALS: Rehearsals start in London Monday 15 June 2009 for four weeks.
WEST END LIVE 2009
Saturday 20 June 11 am to 6 pm
Sunday 21 June 12 noon - 6 pm
Leicester Square, London. Free entry - simply turn up and enjoy the festivities.
The cast of Too Close to the Sun will be performing four songs from the musical.
Other West End shows will be on view.
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31/05/2009 00:00:00 |
GBM Productions Limited present
The World Premiere of
TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN
TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN is a dramatic new musical which is based on a fictional account of the last year in the life of the eminent American writer, Ernest Hemingway. This musical has its World Premiere in London's West End this summer, opening at the COMEDY THEATRE on Thursday 16th July for a strictly limited eight-week season. Press night: Friday 24th July 2009.
An acclaimed author, battling the rigours of old age and desperately trying to live up to his own legend, takes solace in the company of his young secretary, Louella. His wife, Mary, tolerates this liaison so as not to lose him, and is perfectly aware that the secretary has a secret agenda to become wife number five and inherit his estate.
The arrival of an old school friend, Rex, a Hollywood B-movie producer and New York city slicker, adds a further complication, as he tries to secure the film rights to the life of the notorious writer. With bribery, lies and manipulation, Rex plays a dangerous game to achieve his goal.
Can there be any winners in this tangled web of emotional conflict? Hemingway is like Icarus in Greek mythology who, in attempting to fly with wax-covered wings, ignored all warnings and flew too close to the sun.
An acclaimed author, battling the rigours of old age and desperately trying to live up to his own legend, takes solace in the company of his young secretary, Louella. His wife, Mary, tolerates this liaison so as not to lose him, and is perfectly aware that the secretary has a secret agenda � to become wife number five and inherit his estate.
The arrival of an old school friend, Rex, a Hollywood B-movie producer and New York city slicker, adds a further complication, as he tries to secure the film rights to the life of the notorious writer. With bribery, lies and manipulation, Rex plays a dangerous game to achieve his goal.
Can there be any winners in this tangled web of emotional conflict? Hemingway is like Icarus in Greek mythology who, in attempting to fly with wax-covered wings, ignored all warnings and flew too close to the sun.
Cast: Helen Dallimore - has just returned from Australia where she has been starring in a production of Boeing Boeing. Helen made her West End debut in Wicked, playing Glinda the good witch; James Graeme - founder member of the internationally acclaimed singing group, Wall Street Crash, has appeared in a number of West End musicals, including Phantom of the Opera and created the role of Boone in Whistle Down the Wind and Father Marshall in Out of the Blue; Jay Benedict - best known for his role as Captain John Kieffer in Foyle's War; Tammy Joelle - starred in Sundowe, the winning show in the BBC2 TV series MacMusical.
Director: Pat Garrett - has worked extensively in film, theatre and TV, most recently as a film director. She choreographed the original production of Spend Spend Spend at West Yorkshire Playhouse, and several of the Muppet films. Pat will shortly be working on an animated film with Tim Curry.
Music by John Robinson, Libretto by Roberto Trippini, Lyrics by Roberto Trippini and John Robinson. Libretto based on a play by Ron Read. The Artistic Director is Pat Garrett; Set/Costume Designer, Christopher Woods; Musical Supervisor, Gary Hind; Musical Director, Tom Deering; and the Orchestrations are by Conor Mitchell.
GBM Productions have already produced John Robinson's musicals Lorna Doone and Shipperbottom's Rocking Horses outside London, and Behind the Iron Mask at the Duchess Theatre in the West End. GBM also produced his two ballets, The World of Bidlake Wood and Alice Through the Looking Glass, in Vienna. Plans are now in progress to take a new production of Behind the Iron Mask, with a completely new libretto by Roberto Trippini, to New York where a ninety-minute showcase has already been performed at a New World Stages theatre.
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09/03/2009 00:00:00 |
The bringing together of Roberto Trippini and the composer, John Robinson, for the new production of "Behind the Iron Mask", was very successful. The two writers have now collaborated on a new musical, "Too Close to the Sun". This is a fictitious account of what might have been Ernest Hemingway's last challenge. Hemingway cheated death whilst making the most of life. He was a big-game hunter, war correspondent, Nobel Prize-Winner, and all-round adventurer, but his love life was a mess and his fame won him false friends. A concept CD of some of the songs has been recorded.
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09/03/2009 00:00:00 |
Since the West End premiere of GBM's musical "Behind the Iron Mask" (2005), new developments have taken place. A completely new libretto has been written by a new writer, Roberto Trippini. This has resulted in more music and songs being composed, although eighty percent of the original score has been retained. In October 2007, a ninety-minute showcase of the new production was performed in New York at New World Stages. The orchestrations for the new songs and music are currently being written. These will then be recorded. Plans are now being discussed for the new production of "Behind the Iron Mask".
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