Hope springs eternal in new musical
One-woman musical Tell Me On A Sunday staged for Spring Fling
The one-woman Andrew Lloyd Weber musical Tell Me On A Sunday is being staged at the Waipawa Municipal Theatre on Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15, by The Real Theatre Company, as part of the Central Hawke’s Bay Spring Fling.
The musical follows the travails of an English woman in New York in pursuit of a meaningful relationship.
There’s the film producer, the cheat, the younger man, the gay person, the married man. Each liaison in turn falls apart but hope springs eternal with the possibility of every new relationship.
The show includes such well known songs as Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad, Take That Look Off Your Face, Tell Me On A Sunday and
Ready Made Life.
Made famous in the West End with Marti Webb in the lead role, the Hawke’s Bay production stars Lisa Lorrell, an experienced professional singer/performer who has graced the stage in London’s West End as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Laurey in Oklahoma and has had a national tour of a one-woman cabaret show.
Lisa has performed in numerous musicals throughout New Zealand including the role of Mrs Lovett in Sweeny Todd, Rose in Aspects of Love, and the only female role in
Golf The Musical along with Mark Hadlow and Ray Wolfe.
The show’s director David Coddington began his directing career in Hawke’s Bay, directing shows for CHB College,
Waipukurau Little Theatre, Hastings Group Theatre and Te Aute College before he was invited by Raymond Hawthorne to direct at Auckland’s Mercury Theatre.
In the three years he spent there he directed a number of plays including the world premiere of
Ladies Night, New Zealand’s most successful play, which went on to become a hugely successful film
The Full Monty.
On leaving the Mercury, David was one of three who founded the South Seas Film and TV School, where he was associate director and developed and ran their On Screen Acting course. He left South Seas to develop the Manukau Institute of Technology Performing Arts degree course, which he ran for five years.
During his 25 years in Auckland, David continued directing and producing shows in virtually every theatre in Auckland, including Rangi and Papa for the opening of the Aotea Centre, and Saving Grace for which he won the Roger Hall best direction award.
In all he directed more than 60 shows in virtually every performance venue in Auckland.
Since his return to Hawke’s Bay, he has directed Bad Jelly the Witch
and the The Wind in the Willows
at Napier’s Municipal Theatre,
Death and the Maiden, at the Century Theatre, Oleanna at Toitoi, and
Alice in Wonderland at the Centennial Park for this year’s Art Deco Festival.
Central Hawke’s Bay Spring Fling continues throughout October — for a programme of events go to thespringfling.nz