Mick Potter

On 3 May 2022, Cameron Mackintosh invited many of Stephen Sondheim’s old friends to join him in London’s West End for a thrilling, joyously staged production. He had specially devised it to celebrate Sondheim’s extraordinary talents as a composer and lyricist. Featuring an all-star cast including Michael Ball, Helena Bonham Carter, Rob Brydon, Petula Clark, Anna-Jane Casey, Rosalie Craig, Janie Dee, Judi Dench, Daniel Evans, Maria Friedman, Haydn Gwynne, Bonnie Langford, Damian Lewis and Julia McKenzie.

Charlie Stemp stars as the eponymous Arthur Kipps, an orphan and over-worked draper’s assistant at Shalford’s Bazaar, Folkestone, at the turn of the last century. He is a charming but ordinary young man who, along with his fellow apprentices, dreams of a better and more fulfilling world, but he likes his fun just like any other, except not quite. When Kipps unexpectedly inherits a fortune that propels him into high society, it confuses everything he thought he knew about life.

1970年代のベトナム戦争末期、爆撃で故郷の村と両親を失った少女キムと、長引く戦争に対する疑問と虚無感に苛まれるアメリカ兵クリスは、エンジニアの経営するナイトクラブで出会い、急速に惹かれあう。だが、サイゴン陥落の混乱の中、非情にも2人は引き裂かれ、クリスはキムを残しベトナムを離れてしまう。戦争が終わり、キムはクリスの帰りを待ちながら彼との息子タムを育て、懸命に生きていたが、帰還したアメリカで今もベトナムの悪夢に苦しむクリスは、妻エレンと共に新たな人生を歩き始めていた。 時がたち2人が再会するとき、キムは愛するタムを前に、ある悲壮な決意を固めるのであった。

Tim Rice's epic new musical of love and desire, From Here To Eternity, adapted from the classic 1951 novel.

Set 10 years later, the Phantom has escaped from Paris to New York where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of Coney Island. He has finally found a place for his music to soar, all that is missing is his love Christine Daaé. In a bid to win back her love, the Phantom lures Christine, her husband Raoul, and their young son Gustave from Manhattan, to the glittering and glorious world of Coney Island... they have no idea what lies in store for them... You truly haven’t experienced Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies until you see this spectacular new Australian production, filmed at Melbourne’s iconic Regent Theatre.