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| Beautiful and Damned | Beautiful and Damned Theatre Tickets from London Theatre Ticket web |  | Beautiful and Damned is a musical theatre play by Roger Cook and Les Reed with book by Kit Hesketh Harvey and additional material by Phil Willmott. Directed by Phil Willmott.
Beautiful and Damned is an evocative and glittering musical set in the 1920's, telling the tragic story of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The glamorous and fashionable couple, successful young author and stylish young wife, with their high spending, high living lifestyle, became the envy of the world. Scott christened the period 'The Jazz Age', and Zelda was its high priestess. However, behind the dazzling and elegant facade, a darker story awaits to be told.... |
BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
Lyric Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1V 7HA.
Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus.
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Closed 14 August 2004
Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 7.45pm
Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday at 3.00pm
Performance length: 2 hours 25 minutes approx
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Stalls £57.00
Dress Circle £57.00
Upper Circle £45.00
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| | What's New | Closed 14 August 2004
Enjoyable as this parade of generic hedonism and flapper costumes may be, Fitzgerald completists, or even those who simply liked The Great Gatsby, will not find their literary appreciation much enhanced. Style beats substance hands down, which in a roundabout way is a fitting summation of these two scintillatingly wasted lives... Helen Anker gives a suitably febrile performance and sings her way heroically through a succession of Les Reed and Roger Cook's... tunes. Michael Praed's Scott also sings rather well although, unlike Anker, he is not given so many opportunities for pathos once the party guests have departed...The London Evening Standard |
Theatre Review | Closed 14 August 2004
...Beautiful and Damned tells how they loved each other from the first and how, through all the bad times, that love never truly died. It is hard to see how anybody could fit this shallow caricature to the reality of the Fitzgeralds' lives; but that is only the first of a calamitous series of creative mismatches... Veteran songwriters Roger Cook and Les Reed... have turned out a score of unmemorable Twenties pastiche, alternating with big, bland love-songs in which stereotyped emotions are expressed through rhyme-schemes so predictable that you are wincing some seconds before the rhyme arrives. Kit Hesketh Harvey has done his best to cobble together a coherent book... The Independent |
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