Trevor Nunn takes on the Haymarket with Follies, Stiles and Drewe come to town in 2011

Trevor Nunn, who has included the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies on the list of shows he wants to direct as part of his year-long season next year at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
The award-winning director will mount four productions to run from January after Sweet Charity ends its run at the venue. Nunn has a long list of nine shows to choose from because some (for various reasons) will drop off.
I'm told that Nunn will need to sign a major box-office name before Follies, which will cost £2 million, gets the green light. No name, no Follies.


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Richard Eyre and Stephen Mear, who are in talks to direct and choreograph the George Stiles and Anthony Drewe musical Betty Blue Eyes. The show is a musical adaptation of Alan Bennett's hilarious movie A
Private Function, set in post-war Britain in a town where locals want to celebrate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip with a special pork feast - but rationing presents a problem.
The show will have its world premiere run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse around February-March next year, and the plan is for it to come into the West End to one of Cameron Mackintosh's theatres around Easter.

Meanwhile, Gavin Creel and Sally Ann Triplett are among the cast doing a workshop today in London for another Stiles and Drewe show, a musical based on the comedy film Soapdish.


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Obvious possibility is Catherine Zeta Jones if she can fit it in, plus a personal wish.

I wish it wasn't being presented in a season like this. Corners will be cut to get it staged as has to make money in a limited season. 'Follies' of all shows needs to be done big, it is after all about the Follies.

^^^^^^^

Very true.

And they need actors of equal magnitude for all four leads - you can't have a star in one role and not the others.

And, although the Haymarket is a beautiful theatre, it isn't really a musical house is it? Follies needs a theatre for musicals.

107 times.

I doubt it. i saw that production 107 times! Yes, yes I know- i just could!

Mama, they won't have to cut corners with FOLLIES. If Nunn is directing he will do what he always does, cut out the number of lights used.