Apartment 40C – The Cast

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 THE CAST

Katie – Alex Crossley
Eddie – Alex James Ellison
Kate: Lizzie Wofford
Ed: Johnjo Flynn
Kathryn: Nova Skipp
Edward: Peter Gerald

unnamed (14)Alex Crossley (“Katie”): Apartment 40c marks Alex’s professional London debut. Alex studied at Bath and roles whilst studying included Ariel in Footloose, Aida in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, and Serena in Fame. Alex sings regularly in cabarets and concerts, and opened the Assembly Room’s Fashion Show. Most recently, Alex appeared in Little Shop of Horrors at The Network Theatre, Waterloo.

 

 

 


 

alex_ellisonAlex James Ellison (“Eddie”): Alex is from Brighton and trained at the BRIT School of Performing Arts and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Since graduating, he has appeared in various adverts including Flybe, Pure and Singstar, as well as Best of Friends at the Landor and One of Those Days and the Lost Theatre. He is also a singer/songwriter and has been gigging across the country, promoting his debut EP Duvet Days, which is available on iTunes.

 

 


 

Lizzie Wofford (“Kate”): Lizzie graduated from Mountview this year. Credits whilst training include: Roma Queen in new musical Yusupov, Angel City Four in City of Angels, Shirley in The Producers, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Duchess in Me and My Girl. Other credits include: Rebel Royal in By Royal Command (Almeida), Woman Two in Edges (Lichfield Garrick), Featured Soloist in NYMT’s An Evening with Matt Lucas and Friends (Vaudeville), Mrs Lovett in NYMT’s productions of Sweeney Todd (Village Underground and Rose Theatre, Kingston) and Sherrif Pack in YMT’s productions of Out There (South Hill Park and Riverside Studios). Radio Credits include: Izzy Black in The Archers, Princess Elizabeth in Gunpowder Women and The Tree in Treesplitting (BBC Radio Four).

 


 

 Johnjo Flynn (“Ed”):  Johnjo graduated from ArtsEd in 2006 and made his West End début in The Anniversary Concert of Side By Side by Sondheim (Novello Theatre). Johnjo went on to other projects including: The Twelve Irish Tenors (Europe & USA tours), Imagine This (world premiere: Theatre Royal Plymouth, playing Jacob), Blood Brothers (UK tour, playing Perkins), Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre, u/s Enjolras, playing Montparnasse).  Other Les Misérables credits include: The 25th Anniversary Concert (O2 Arena) and Les Misérables The Movie.  He also played Jake in The Famous Five (Tabard Theatre), Lee Harvey Oswald and The Balladeer in Sondheim’s Assassins (Pleasance Theatre), Andrew in Boy Meets Boy (Jermyn St Theatre) and played the part of WWI The Great War I German Spy Carl Hans Lody (BBC).  Johnjo is represented by John Rogerson at The Soundcheck Group and is delighted to be performing in London Theatre Workshop’s production of Apartment 40C.

 


 

unnamed (16)Nova Skipp (“Kathryn”): Nova trained at the Arts Educational Schools, London. West End credits include: Aspects of Love (Prince of Wales & tour), Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s & Manchester Opera House), cover Jane in Salad Days (Vaudeville Theatre & tour), The Sound of Music (London Palladium). Tours: cover Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, cover Grace in Annie, Jellylorum in Cats (Stuttgart), cover Anna in The King and I, Miss Cuff in Acorn Antiques, Girl 1 in The Two most Perfect Things, cover Beverly & Susan in Abigail’s Party, Auntie Lou in Carrie’s War. Repertory: The Sounds of Music (Sheffield Crucible), Kes (York Theatre Royal), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Troilus & Cressida (Regent’s Park), Ado Annie in Oklahoma!, LV in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Jan in Bedroom Farce and Carrie in Carousel (Yeovil Octagon), Julie Jordan in Carousel (Perth Theatre, Scotland), Janet in The Rocky Horror Show and Sandy in Grease (Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man), Side by Side by Sondheim and Grace Farrell in Annie (Gordon Craig< Stevenage) and Kes (Derby Theatre). Fringe: Young Sally in Follies (Landor), The Queen/Wezenina in Odette (Bridewell), Emma Goldman in Assassins (Pleasance, Islington), Just Another Love Story (Brighton Festival & London Theatre Workshop), Mrs Smith in Meet me in St Louis (Landor) and Meg Boyd in Damn Yankees (Landor).


 

Peter Gerald (“Edward”): Theatre includes: Harlequino in the Hypochondriac, The Oresteia (NT), Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Comedy), Thenardier in Les Miserables (Palace), Noah Claypole in Oliver! (National Tour & Toronto), Jesus in Godspell (National Tour), Lee Harvey Oswald in Assassins (Derby), Adrian in The Secret Diary on Adrian Mole (Colchester), Thorin in The Hobbit (Lyric Hammersmith), Houdini in Houdini (National Tour), Ronnie in Chicken Soup With Barley (New End), Graziano in The Merchant of Venice (Lichfield), Hamilton/Ranseck in Kitty and Damnation, Scrooge in a Christmas Carol (Best Actor Nominee Off West End Awards) (Giant Olive), Phil/Older Bobby in Dreamboats and Petticoats (National Tour), Put on a Happy Face (Landor), Tom in The Thing About Men (Landor),  Jules Pascin in the one man show – Picasso is Coming … Ce Soir (St James Theatre).  TV includes: David in Playacting (ITV). The Oresteia (Ch 4), I Remember Nelson (Central), Yitzak Rabin in Iran – Guarding The Revolution (BBC). Film: Juis Suis Daddy (Blacklight Prods), Genes (Inopean Prods), Stefan in Ice (Shoot Jam Prods). Radio includes; Tess or the D’Urbevilles, Scrooge in A More or Less Christmas Carol (BBC Radio 4).

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Ray Rackham Takes Liberties

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RAY RACKHAM TAKES LIBERTIES

Date: Sunday 20th November
Time: 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm)
Price: £20Ray Rackham is without question not one of the Grand Dames of Broadway. In a career spanning nowhere near 60 years he has not starred in shows as diverse as Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey, Noel Coward’s Sail Away and most famously, not Stephen Sondheim’s Follies and Company, as well as not appearing in numerous film and award-winning television series. He has never played Alec Baldwin’s mother in 30 Rock, and didn’t have to wait 40 years for a Tony Award, because he’s never won one!

What he is, however, is a huge fan of Elaine Stritch, Martin Short, Bea Arthur and Hugh Jackman, and in a series of vignettes punctuated by songs from the shows in which he has not starred, he pays tribute to the type of one man and one woman shows that have punctuated the theatre scene for the last twenty years.

Raising much needed funds for London Theatre Workshop’s redevelopment programme, Ray promises to entertain, stumble through a song or two, and lie about himself…a little.

City of Champions

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Dates: 17 July – 5 August
17/18/19th July – Previews
20th July – Press Night
29 July  – Matinee performance(2:30pm)
5 August – last performance
NO Sunday/Monday performances (EXCEPT first preview)
Time: All evening performances start 7:30pm (No latecomers will be admitted)
Price: All tickets are £15
Not suitable for children, contains strong language and adult themes

 

CITY OF CHAMPIONS‘ is a new play by Steve  Brown

Set in 2010 in the city of Inglewood, Los Angeles, it focuses on two former nineteen-eighties child superstars, Lonnie Drake and Laurie Munro, who are living with the after effects of early stardom and abuse as teen stars.

Lonnie, a recovering alcoholic, is married and still working in the industry. Laurie, although clean after numerous trips to rehab, is broke and unemployable. He is living in the ‘guest lodge’ in Lonnie’s back garden. Desperate for work and money, a job opportunity presents itself but it means working once again with the director who abused him during his teen career.

A reunion with someone from his past and an unwelcome visit from an old colleague act as the catalyst for Laurie to make a decision to take control of his situation and change everybody’s lives.

Not suitable for children, contains strong language and adult themes.

 

 

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Rainy Days & Mondays


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Dates: 
27 April – 7.30pm
28 April – 7.30pm
29 April – 4.00pm

Price: Tickets £15 concessions £12

Rainy Days & Mondays, devised by Chris Kabay, Musical Director & Arranger Simon Holt, Directed by Ray Rackham

Starring :  Helen Anker, Belinda Wollaston & Freya Tilly

Due to a Sold Out run and five star reviews , Ray Rackham Theatrical is delighted to bring back our leading ladies for 3 more performances
Almost fifty years after their debut, the Carpenters rank among the most popular acts in recording history. Though they recorded as the Carpenters for just 14 years, Karen and Richard made a deep and lasting impact on popular music. Remarkably, their work has not only endured but grown in stature with every passing year. With songs like CLOSE TO YOU, ONLY YESTERDAY & SOLITAIRE, its no wonder that each new generation has embraced them as their own. With only four shows, book early as this production is sure to sell out.

 

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Hear My Soul Speak

This work-in-progress performance investigates the portrait of the mind and persona of Shakespeare’s Prospero, created the sound patterning in the language of the play, to expose the sound-world Shakespeare creates through words.

The performance draws exclusively on text from The Tempest and incorporates the little-known original music for the play written by Shakespeare’s colleague, the composer Robert Johnson.

Dates:

13 April – 7:30pm
14 April – 1:00pm and 7:30pm

Price:

Tickets £7, concessions £5

Starring:

Gerrard McArthur, Russell Harcourt

 

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Video Artist: Ben Glover
Musical Director: Nikki Aitken
Lighting Designer: Elliot Jones
Director: Christopher Hurrell

Background: In no other play of Shakespeare, is the action, and even the disposition of the other characters so utterly the construction of the central protagonist. Shakespeare uses the device of a ‘stage magician’ – a Faustian necromancer, to explore a single character through all the stage action of the drama. It’s not too fanciful to suggest that the entire enchanted island is a landscape of Prospero’s mind.

This expressionist approach to characterisation is fuelled by the most knotted, ornate and ethereal language in the Shakespearean canon. That language creates a sound world that is simultaneously the world of the island, and a sonic portrait of Prospero’s psyche.

More information about this creative development project and the research which informs it is available at christopherhurrell.com/hear-my-soul-speak

 

 

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