Theatre

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

6 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

@Bibliogryphon Joker a couple of years ago, why drop him? http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_B.html#brookp

I  apply  the 50% rule and I give priority to unique picks. I probably have him somewhere else

[YoungWillz 21,054]

Sybil Mitchell, who acted under the name Sybil Ewbank, daughter of Eileen Thorndike and niece of Dame Sybil Thorndike, obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/sep/07/sybil-mitchell-obituary

[YoungWillz 21,054]

Scottish playwright Alan Wilkins reportedly dead: https://www.traverse.co.uk/news/a-tribute-to-alan-wilkins

 

Carthage Must Be Destroyed is an excellent piece of stage writing.

 

According to this post he died on 7 September, aged 52/53: 

 

[YoungWillz 21,054]

Report of the death of British theatre director and spiritualist James Roose-Evans, aged 94, probably best known for adapting 84 Charing Cross Road for the stage and going on to direct it, a DDP pick for @machotrouts: 

 

[YoungWillz 21,054]

On 29/10/2022 at 12:45, YoungWillz said:

Report of the death of British theatre director and spiritualist James Roose-Evans, aged 94, probably best known for adapting 84 Charing Cross Road for the stage and going on to direct it, a DDP pick for @machotrouts: 

 

James Roose-Evans QO for the DDP @gcreptile: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/11/01/james-roose-evans-founder-hampstead-theatre-whose-work-infused/

[YoungWillz 21,054]

 

The above is a picture of some Windmill Theatre girls running along the beach (yes a beach!) near to Tower Bridge at the side of the Thames in 1947.

 

Second from the right is Toni Leighton. Here is her death notice as she has died aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/260503/leighton

 

The beach isn't there anymore. Story here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5983699/When-life-beach-Amazing-pictures-carefree-scenes-forgotten-sand-middle-London.html

[Ulitzer95 12,650]

Times death notice for Roger Jenkins (wiki), British theatre and television director.

Died on 21 December 2022, aged 91.

TV credits include Howards' Way, Coronation Street, The Avengers, Poldark and Z Cars.

[gcreptile 10,978]

Jürgen Flimm, A-list german stage director dies at 81:

https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/regisseur-flimm-gestorben-101.html

 

He once was a young radical who got his start at Cologne's university theatre. They're very proud of him there.

[The Old Crem 3,605]

Keith Johnstone, was a British and Canadian pioneer of improvisational theatre, He has died aged 90. Obit

[The Old Crem 3,605]

Janine Shalom - PR at many west end theatres has died aged 63. 

[time 8,616]

Theatre director Michael Rudman has died aged 84, two years after surviving covid. Won a Tony for his revival of Death of a Salesman. Hes also the partner (and ex-husband - its complicated) of Felicity Kendal.

[YoungWillz 21,054]

John Baraldi, American who turned up in Scotland in the mid to late 1970s to become a director of both the Glasgow Youth Theatre and Cumbernauld Youth Theatre which turned out a generation of Scottish actors who turned up in various projects starting with the Bill Forsyth films That Sinking Feeling and Gregory's Girl, reportedly dead: 

 

 

[Steve 603]

On 19/04/2023 at 10:56, YoungWillz said:

John Baraldi, American who turned up in Scotland in the mid to late 1970s to become a director of both the Glasgow Youth Theatre and Cumbernauld Youth Theatre which turned out a generation of Scottish actors who turned up in various projects starting with the Bill Forsyth films That Sinking Feeling and Gregory's Girl, reportedly dead: 

 

Can't seem to find any news source that confirms John Baraldi's death.

[YoungWillz 21,054]

4 hours ago, Steve said:

Can't seem to find any news source that confirms John Baraldi's death.

When you find one, let us know. Died in Malta. Plenty of tributes out there from Cumbernauld Theatre, E15 Acting School and Riverside Studios.

 

Given his level of fame and the major deaths over the weekend, a mere 5 days is a drop in the ocean.

 

Maybe give bods like this a couple of months.

[YoungWillz 21,054]

British playwright Adam Brace (IMDB), Associate Director at the Soho Theatre, London, who wrote for The Mash Report and Late Night Mash for television, reportedly dead aged 42/43: 

His play Stovepipe, about corporate soldiers, was highly critically acclaimed.

 

Edit: Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/adam-brace-death-cause-soho-theatre-b2330792.html

[YoungWillz 21,054]

Stage Obit for Richard Mills, who rose from being a humble stage electrician to best buddies with Bernard Delfont and a board member of the National Theatre: https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/richard-mills-prolific-presence-in-british-theatre-whose-50-year-career-took-him-from-stage-management-to-the-top-job-at-delfont-mackintosh-theatres

 

Just spent a good hour and a half trawling his website which has incredible stories from his early days especially on Eric Morecambe, George Cole, Peter Sellers, etc etc. Worth a read: http://www.richardmmills.com/

 

Harry Secombe doing one of his landladies across the kitchen table - lawdy!

[YoungWillz 21,054]

Sir Michael Boyd, former Glasgow Tron Theatre and RSC artistic director, reportedly dead from cancer: https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/announcing-the-death-of-michael-boyd/

[time 8,616]

Stage obit (registration required) of playwright Tom Kempinski, of Duet for One fame (and former Mr. Frances de la Tour), who died 2nd August, aged 85.

[YoungWillz 21,054]

Well worth reading this death notice for former Tiller Girl Mary Barsh who has died aged 101: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/barsh-notices_53797

[Gisooo 3,372]

Mentioned many times here

 

American theatrical critic Robert Brustein (Wiki) dead at 96

[YoungWillz 21,054]

Death notice for Adele Anggard (nee Alers Hankey), opera, ballet and theatre costume designer, aged 90: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/-ngg-rd-notices_54314

 

A daughter of Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey. 

 

She worked on Peter Brook's film version of King Lear.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029401/

[gcreptile 10,978]

Vinnie Burrows, once called the Queen of Black Theatre, also an activist, dead at 99:

https://www.playbill.com/article/actor-and-activist-vinie-burrows-dies-at-99

[The Old Crem 3,605]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25401597/martin-mccallum-dead-theatre-producer-cats-les-miserables/

LEGENDARY theatre producer Martin McCallum has died aged 73.

[Ulitzer95 12,650]

38 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25401597/martin-mccallum-dead-theatre-producer-cats-les-miserables/

LEGENDARY theatre producer Martin McCallum has died aged 73.

HYPERBOLE to get clicks my dear Crem.

[The Old Crem 3,605]

1 minute ago, Ulitzer95 said:

HYPERBOLE to get clicks my dear Crem.

Sorry. I just wasn’t able to edit the sentence without it turning into a hyperlink.