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Preview by Paul Nelson
FOLLOWING
a sell-out season at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in Islington, the revival
of Snoopy The Musical transfers for a West End run at the Jermyn
Street Theatre.
Based on the world famous strip cartoon Peanuts, the show hasn't been
seen in the West End since its 1980 Olivier award winning production, which
starred Susie Blake and Teddy Kempner.
Atop his kennel, Snoopy surveys the skies, scene of his triumph as a First
World War flying ace. Modestly he considers his genius. Stoically he accepts
that his brilliance in nearly every field of human endeavour will forever
go unremarked by humankind. He can but uphold his own high standards ("I
refuse to chase a stick that has not been sanded and polished"), and
his own immutable philosophy ("In the Book of Life the answers are not
in the back").
The cast includes Sarah Lark as Lucy (last seen in The Witches of Eastwick),
Neil Gordon-Taylor as Charlie Brown, Stephen Carlisle as Snoopy (Over My
Shoulder at the JST), Stuart Piper as Linus (Bugsy Malone, Honk!),
Gemma Maclean as Sally Brown (Me and My Girl), Cassidy Janson as Peppermint
Patty and newcomer Alice Chilver as Woodstock.
The production is directed and choreographed by Joseph Pitcher and Claire
Winsper who trained together at the Millennium Dance School and have since
worked together in the West End and on tour with Sunset Boulevard, Me and
My Girl and the RNT's Singin' in the Rain.
Snoopy The Musical, based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M Schultz.
Book by Charles M Schultz Creative Associates, Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw
and Michael L Grace. Music by Larry Grossman, Lyrics by Hal Hackady. Directed
and Choreographed by Joseph Pitcher and Claire Winsper, Musical Director Matthew
Malone, Set and Lighting Design by Finuala McNalty, Costumes Designed by Susan
Pitcher: WITH: Sarah Lark, Neil Gordon-Taylor, Stephen Carlisle, Stuart Piper,
Gemma Maclean, Cassidy Janson, Alice Chilver. Morning Vicar Productions with
Jermyn Street Theatre presents Zoop Zoop's production at the Jermyn Street
Theatre, 16B Jermyn Street, London SW1 from February 17 to March 1 at 7.30pm.
Tickets 020 7287 2875.
RELATED LINKS: Click here for The Jermyn Street Theatre website...
