Legacy Falls is described as a musical and also “a play within a play, soap opera and comedy with some great music with comical lyrics full of romance, hair-pulling cat-fights, hiring’s and firings, sex scandals, tantrums, deaths and a slightly unrealistic earthquake”.
It is playing at the New Players Theatre in the Arches in Villiers Street from 29th October- 20th November with previews starting 27th October.
Legacy Falls is an expose of all the bitchiness and back-stabbing behind the scenes and in front of the camera on a fictional American daytime soap opera. The main character is gay but can’t admit it with a gay romance as the central theme. There is also a boy-meets-girl sub-plot which reaches an unexpected conclusion.
The cast bringing these characters to life are Amy Anzel, Aimie Atkinson, Ezra Axelrod, Rosalind Blessed, Davis Brooks, Joanne Heywood, Tara Hugo, Mark Inscoe, Tim Oxbrow, Stephen von Screiber, Bart Williams and Pippa Winslow.
Brixton-based, Bahamas-born Ian Poitier is bringing the show into London. It has been written by James Burn, former Assistant Musical Director of Disney’s “The Lion King” at the Mogador Theatre in Paris. The co-producer is Danielle Tarento who co-founded the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2004 . Her current projects include Smokey Joe's CafĂ© at the Landor Theatre, and Frances Ruffelle: Beneath The Dress.
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