Garrick Theatre - Productions

Productions

• 1947 - Laurence Olivier directed Jack Buchanan in Born Yesterday, with Coral Browne in a revival of Frederick Lonsdale's Canaries Sometimes Sing.
• 1950 - Richard Attenborough transferred from the Savoy Theatre in To Dorothy a Son.
• 1955 - The revue La Plume de Ma Tante was an enormous success, during the run of which Jack Buchanan died, in 1957.
• 1958 - Dora Bryan in Living for Pleasure.
• 1959 - Margaret Rutherford and Peggy Mount in Farewell Farewell Eugene.
• 1960 - The Stratford East production of Lionel Bart's Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be began a two-year run with Miriam Karlin.
• 1962 - Sheila Hancock in Rattle of a Simple Man.
• 1967 - Brian Rix presented and appeared in Stand By Your Bedouin, the first in a season of farces, including Uproar in the House and Let Sleeping Wives Lie.
• 1971 - The last of these farces was Don't Just Lie There Say Something.
• 1972 - Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth transferred.
• 1973 - Dandy Dick starred Alastair Sim and Patricia Routledge.
• 1975 - Robert Stigwood presented Aspects of Max Wall for a six-week sell-out season.
• 1976 - Richard Beckinsdale headlined the risque comedy Funny Peculiar.
• 1977 - Side By Side By Sondheim transferred and was a continuing success with three casts.
• 1978 - Ira Levin's thriller Deathtrap began a long run until 1981.
• 1982 - No Sex Please, We're British transferred from the Strand Theatre and remained until 1986.
• 1986 - Judi Dench and Michael Williams in Mr and Mrs Nobody.
• 1987 - William Gaunt and Susie Blake in When Did You Last See Your Trousers? by Ray Galton and John Antrobus.
• 1988 - Jane How and Zena Walker transferred from the King's Head, Islington in Noël Coward's Easy Virtue.
• 1989 - Rupert Everett and Maria Aitken in another Coward, The Vortex; and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good transferred from the Royal Court Theatre.
• 1990 - Short seasons of Bent with Ian McKellen and Frankie Howerd At His Tittermost; The Rehearsal by Jean Anouilh transferred from the Almeida Theatre.
• 1991 - Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa transferred from the Phoenix Theatre.
• 1993 - John Godber's On the Piste and Steven Berkoff's One Man.
• 1994 - Tom Courtenay in Moscow Stations and a festive season with Fascinating Aida.
• 1995 - The Live Bed Show with Paul Merton and Caroline Quentin, the Abbey Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars; the Royal National Theatre's An Inspector Calls, which began its second prolonged season in the West End.
• 2001 - Feelgood transferred from Hampstead Theatre followed by J B Priestley's Dangerous Corner.
• 2002 - The hit British premiere production of This is Our Youth plays two seasons either side of a successful run of The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
• 2003 - Jus' Like That!, Ross Noble and Wait Until Dark.
• 2004 - A revival of David Mamet's Oleanna; The Solid Gold Cadillac, starring Patricia Routledge and Roy Hudd.
• 2005 - The Anniversary with Sheila Hancock, Elmina's Kitchen by Kwame Kwei-Armah, On The Ceiling with Ralf Little, You Never Can Tell with Edward Fox.
• 2006 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Christian Slater and Alex Kingston, Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell starring Tom Conti, Amy's View starring Felicity Kendal.
• 2007 - Billie Piper makes her stage debut in a new production of Christopher Hampton's Treats, Bad Girls: The Musical, Absurd Person Singular.
• 2008 - Derren Brown's Mind Reader – An Evening of Wonders, Zorro.
• 2009 - A Little Night Music transferred from the Menier Chocolate Factory, The Mysteries by the Isango Portobello Theatre Company, Arturo Brachetti's Change.
• 2010 - The Little Dog Laughed starring Tamsin Greig, Rupert Friend, Gemma Arterton and Harry Lloyd, All the Fun of the Fair, a jukebox musical based on the songs of David Essex, When We Are Married starring Maureen Lipman and Roy Hudd.
• 2011 - The Hurly Burly Show a contemporary burlesque revue starring Miss Polly Rae; Pygmalion, starring Rupert Everett, Kara Tointon and Diana Rigg, Chicago transferred from the Cambridge Theatre starring America Ferrera, closing in 2012 after 15 years in the West End.
• 2012 - Loserville, a new musical by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, starring Aaron Sidwell and Lil Chris.
• 2013 - Rock of Ages transfers from the Shaftesbury Theatre.