Clive comes alive in Egypt
CLIVE ROWE (right) arrived for the second day of rehearsals for Sister Act — which was to have starred Whoopi Goldberg — only to be told to go home. It was the start of the first lockdown. ‘But theatre is resilient,’ Rowe said. ‘No matter what happens, the art of storytelling will continue.’ The olivier award-winning actor worked on shows at Chichester and the old Vic last year; and also managed some telly work on Midsomer Murders. But he’ll be back on the boards — playing Jethro, leader of the Midianites — in the prince of egypt musical at the Dominion from July 1. ‘If the knees permit, I will be dancing and bopping,’ he told me, with a chuckle, from his flat in a leafy South london suburb. ‘once you get this bodymass moving, it’s pretty much impossible to stop it.’ He will stay through october 16. ‘There’s a little bit of trepidation, but I can’t wait.’ And then it’s off to the Hackney empire, for the return of his annual Christmas panto — this year Jack And The Beanstalk.