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Co-directors Harold Prince &
Susan Stroman
Adapted & Arranged by Jonathan
Tunick
Music by Johann Strauss II
Book by Richard Nelson
Lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh
TICKETS ON SALE FROM :
Menier
Chocolate Factory
Southwark Street, London
19 May - 26 June 2010
Opening night 26 May
Set design : Beowulf Boritt
Costumes : Judy Dolan
Lighting : Howell Binkley
Sound : Gareth Owen
MD : Charles Prince (Hal Prince's son)
Production photos by Catherine
Ashmore
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Starring
alongside Shuler :
Mandy Patinkin (Evita), Judy
Kaye (The Phantom of the Opera), John McMartin (Sweet
Charity, Follies, Grey Gardens), Nancy Opel (Urinetown,
Toxic Avenger),
Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow, Wonderful Town), George Lee Andrews (The Phantom of the
Opera, A Little Night Music), Amanda Kloots-Larsen (Young
Frankenstein), Lacey Kohl (Carousel, Cry Baby),
Herndon Lackey (Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Les Misérables),
Daniel Marcus (Pal Joey, Urinetown, Adding Machine), Jim
Poulos (Rent, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), Martin Van
Treuren (Candide, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and
Pamela Winslow Kashani (Into the Woods, Beauty & the
Beast). (And presumably not John Cullum - or Emily Skinner -
as previously announced.)
| Shuler
Hensley |
The
Baron |
| Mandy Patinkin |
The Eunuch |
| Judy Kaye |
Frau
Matzner |
| John McMartin |
The Shah |
| Nancy Opel |
The Soap
Manufacturer's Wife |
| Kate Baldwin |
Mizzi |
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Press release :
"Based on a true story, the highly comic and romantic musical Paradise
Found is befitting of an Arabian Nights tale. It all starts with
the Shah of Persia, who is feeling low. To lift his spirits, he's off
to Vienna with his Eunuch in tow for new adventures. The Shah promptly
falls in love with the Empress of the Empire, much to the dismay of
her husband, so a resident of the local brothel - who is a double for
the Empress - is substituted for a night of passion. But she's in love
with a Baron, who's having an affair with the Soap Manufacturer's Wife
.…"
PHOTOS:
Opening night photos by Bruce Glikas at Broadway.com
Playbill
: Exclusive Shots of the cast of Paradise Found's journey to
London
REHEARSALS: Broadway.com
| Playbill
| BroadwayWorld.com
ARTICLES:
Hal Prince, Susan Stroman and a musical love
: the Broadway legends are swapping the Big Apple for a converted South
London chocolate factory for their latest musical. Timesonline
17 May 2010
Paradise-Bound
Tony Nominee Kate Baldwin Fills Her 2010 Calendar With Music. Playbill
8 May 2010
"January 12-17, 2011, she'll join
Jonathan Tunick and Shuler Hensley for a week of Rodgers &
Hammerstein concerts with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra .... There is
also hope among producers and musical theatre fans that Paradise Found
will have a wider commercial life back in New York City."
A
Life in the Theatre : Meet 21-time Tony Award-winning director-producer
Hal Prince, a towering figure in the American theatre. Playbill
1 May 2010
Return
of the Prince : A director with decades of hits tackles an unlikely
London show. Wall
Street Journal 9 April 2010
"Paradise
Found" will feature 14 actors, scaled down from 50 that the
creators originally envisioned for the production, wearing ornate
costumes but performing in a reflective black plexiglass set. Mr. Prince
wants to keep the London staging of "Paradise Found" under
$800,000, and the New York version under $8 million, says Tim Kashani, a
theater producer and technology executive who is one of four lead
producers on the project. The show will star Mandy Patinkin who played
Che in Mr. Prince's "Evita," along with Shuler Hensley who
played the Monster in Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" and
Kate Baldwin who starred in the recent Broadway revival of "Finian's
Rainbow."
Phantom’s director talks to the Las
Vegas Sun 21 Feb 2010
I’m doing a show called
“Paradise Found,” which Richard Nelson has written (inspired by
Joseph Roth’s novel, “The Tale of the 1002nd Night”). Roth is the
fella who wrote “The Radetzky March” (1932), a great Austrian writer
(1894-1939). Ellen Fitzhugh wrote the lyrics (to “Paradise Found”) -
very sharp, very acerbic, very funny. And the music is Johann Strauss
II. Jonathan Tunick has taken charge of the music. I want all those
melodies, but I don’t want wall-to-wall waltzes. They bore me.
There’s so much melody there it’s incredible. It’s all beautiful.
I said, “Jonathan, open your mind to orchestrating everything with
different instrumentation than he (Strauss) used, because the melody
will still be there but the impact of what we hear will be different.”
The cast will include
Mandy Patinkin, John Cullum, Shuler Hensley, a girl named Kate Baldwin,
Emily Skinner and Judy Kaye. They’re all first rate. I’ve worked
with almost all of them and there are a lot of Tony awards there.
They’ve waited for me for a year to do it and we’re going to do it
in London for 7 weeks at the Menier Chocolate Factory and then come to
Broadway and then what I’ll do (if they all like it - I hope) I’ll
do a duplicate for the West End so the Chocolate Factory people can make
some money out of it. They’re sort of our co-producers.
A Conversation with Harold Prince. Broadway
World 26 Oct 2009
There should be some
high expectations for Prince's new 2010 musical Paradise Found which
he is co-directing with Susan Stroman and opening at the Menier
Chocolate Factory in London for 6 weeks in June before moving to New
York. "It's a really interesting story based on a book of Joseph
Roth (Tale of the 1002nd Night) who was a great writer. He
was a Viennese writer who died in Paris in 1939 and he's now had a
great resurgence. I proudly tell you I precede the resurgence since
I've been working on the play for 5 years with Richard Nelson and
Ellen Fitzhugh, the lyricist. And the extraordinary part of it is the
music is Johann Strauss' adapted and rethought by Jonathan Tunick."
The cast is replete with several of Prince's favorite stars, including
Judy Kaye, Mandy Patinkin, John Cullum, Shuler Hensley, and "an
absolutely brilliant Emily Skinner. That would be a pretty strong
cast, wouldn't you say?" he asks rhetorically
Director finds his new 'Paradise' - Harold Prince's musical to bow at
Menier. Variety
21 Sept 2009
Prince and Stroman Team Up for a
‘Paradise’ Bound for Broadway. New
York Times 22 Sept 2009
Playbill news :
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Feb 2010 Baldwin, Cullum, Hensley and Kaye Will Join Patinkin
for London's Paradise Found
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Feb 2010 Patinkin to Star in Prince and Stroman's Paradise
Found in London Prior to Broadway
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Sept 2008 Harold Prince Will Direct Paradise Found in
2009
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April 2008 Prince, Stroman, Tunick, Fitzhugh, & Nelson
Waltz to Strauss in Musical Reading of Paradise
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