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just out of universities and drama schools
but without professional experience. The
Young Company is to be a place where the
actors can have security to learn and
develop for about three years before going
on to other theatres.
The Young Company began last year
when Mr. Hutt auditioned 300 anxious
applicants before coming up with his
company. They have produced such shows
as Shakespeare's Twelfth Night which
played to sold out audiences night after
night. Mr. Wellan says he'd never have
thought he'd have seen the day when
Londoners would be lining up for tickets to
see a Shakespearean play but they were for
that show.
Mr. Wellan says the theatre hopes to
extend the same kind of intensive
on-the-job training programs to writers,
directors and technicians in the future.
The Studio theatre is scheduled to open
Dec. 27 with the world premiere of The
Marvellous, Magical Circus of Paddington
Bear commissioned by Theatre London by
Blaine Parker a well-known musical writer.
Mr. Parker wrote book, music and lyrics
and will direct the show. It's designed as a
delightful Christmas treat for children that
will continue until Jan. 20.
The Studio will host Oscar Remembered
with Maxim Mazumbar in January and
Theatre Beyond Words in February. Also
on view in the Studio in February will be
five performances of Rogues and Vaga-
bonds with Marti Maraden and Nicholos
Pennell.
For the majority of people, of course, the
focal point of theatre in London is the
Grand stage. Mr. Hutt has chosen Kiss Me
Kate as the first production in the new
theatre and promises the best production
the theatre can muster as Theatre
London's way of saying thank you to the
city in its support of the campaign to build
the new building.
There will be 33 in the company on stage
as well as 18 musicians. Mr. Wellan says
he's never heard so many excellent voices
as those being shown in rehearsals for the
production and the young cast is full of
enthusiasm. The production will have eight
sets and nearly 100 costumes.
Mr. Wellan says Mr. Hutt is very
conscientious about what is seen on the
stage of Theatre London, one of the top
rated regional theatres in the country. His
philosophy is to provide diversified theatre
with as much quality as possible.
The Hutt profile will be high indeed at
Theatre London when it comes time for the
official opening of the new building on Jan.
28. Mr. Hutt will return to a familiar role,
that of Canada's first Prime Minister in
John A. Himself! The play which is
described as not a history lesson but about
the,man himself, reunites Mr. Hutt with
wrier Timothy Findley. The two worked
together when C.B.C. was putting together
its production of The National Dream and
Mr. Hutt was impressed enough to
promise that if he ever got his own theatre,
140 The Village Squire November 1978
he would hire Findley to write a play about
Sir John A. MacDonald. That's how the
play comes about.
The show was originally scheduled for
February but has been moved up because
of the official opening of the theatre.
Othet plays to be presented at the Grand
include Rope, by Patrick Hamilton a
thriller about the perfect crime and
Otherwise Engaged, the comedy by Simon
Gray which was awarded Best Play of the
Year in both London's West End and New
York's Broadway. Bernard Slade's hit play
Same Time, Next Year, will be performed
by Dawn Greenhalgh and Ted Follows in
April. In May the production of Little Mary
Sunshine will be performed, featuring
music and poking fun at old time musicals
like Rose Marie and Naughty Marietta.
When the theatre opens Nov. 22 it will
be finished in public parts of the building
but far from complete. That it opens at all
however is something of a miracle since
work was badly delayed by a lengthy
carpenters strike that hit London. Many
people felt the theatre as a highly visible
project, was being used as a symbol and a
pawn by the union in its negotiations.
There was doubt that even if the strike was
settled, the lost time could be made up by
November.
Even during an October tour it appeared
there was an immense amount of work to
do but the theatre was assured that
everything would be ready. The seats were
sitting in boxes waiting to be installed. A
woman sat in the hall with a sewing
machine putting together the main stage
curtain and carpenters and workmen were
everywhere. Elsewhere in the city the
rehearsals went on, the sets were being
built and the costumes sewn. One gets the
feeling that when the subscribers relax in
their seats Nov. 22, the construction crews,
stage crews and the whole backstage
portion of the theatre's staff will collapse
with exhaustion.
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