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Boeing Boeing is gone gone
20th June 2008
by Troy Dodds
Source:
www.aussietheatre.com
It
may have won two Tony Awards this week but theatre's greatest honour
was not enough to save Boeing
Boeing, which this morning had its planned Sydney season
cancelled.
Producers issued a statement just after 10am this morning confirming
that the show's Australian run would conclude in Melbourne on
Sunday, July 6. People who have purchased tickets for the Sydney
season can get full refunds at the point of purchase.
Boeing Boeing
originally opened in the mid-1960s and was one of the most
successful comedies of its time, running for an impressive seven
years in London’s West End, 19 years in Paris, and was a hit when it
toured Australia.
This stylishly new retro production, which opened in London last
February and on Broadway in May, is directed by English director and
dramatist Matthew Warchus (well-known for directing the
international hit Art).
The Melbourne season opened on June 12 and the show was scheduled to
land in Sydney in mid-July.
The show is produced in Australia by NewTheatricals and Dainty
Consolidated Entertainment, who are also working together on the
current Australian production of
The Rocky Horror Show.
The play features a solid cast - including Helen Dallimore, fresh
from her tenure as Glinda in the smash hit musical
Wicked in London.
The collapse of Boeing Boeing
is theatre's first major casualty of 2008.
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