Theatre
Kenwright is one of the UK's most successful theatre producers, best known for the long-running West End hit Blood Brothers and the record breaking tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other recent productions have included West End runs of Whistle Down The Wind at the Palace Theatre, Festen in London, on a UK tour and now on Broadway, The Big Life, Elmina's Kitchen, Scrooge - The Musical, The Night Of The Iguana, A Few Good Men, A Man For All Seasons alongside UK tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, Whistle Down The Wind, Tell Me On A Sunday, and This Is Elvis. He produced the London revival of Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre in September 2006, starring Anna Maxwell Martin, James Dreyfus and Sheila Hancock.
He has helped start the careers of many current West End theatre producers, including Mark Rubinstein and Marc Sinden. It has been estimated that he employs more actors in a year than any employer other than the BBC.
He also directs many productions, including Blood Brothers, Whistle Down the Wind and more recently, was asked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to make changes to the direction of Love Never Dies.
Current and recent productions include:
- Blood Brothers - Phoenix Theatre, London and on UK National Tour, starring Helen Hobson and Steven Houghton
- Cabaret - Savoy Theatre, London with Will Young, MIchelle Ryan and Sian Phillips
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Adelphi Theatre, London with Lee Mead winner of BBC1 Any Dream Will Do
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - UK National Tour - currently starring Craig Chalmers, Antony Hansen, Henry Metcalfe and Tara Bethan
- The Wizard of Oz - London Palladium, London (2011)
- Jekyll and Hyde - UK National Tour (2011)
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
—Dame Alice Markova (b. 1910)
“Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life’s supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man’s frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinema ... has access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)