Casting
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.
Casting
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.
Casting
1975년 베트남 전쟁에 참가한 미군 크리스는 클럽 ‘드림랜드’에서 전쟁 고아 킴을 만나 사랑에 빠지고 결혼식을 올린다. 하지만 1978년 호찌민 정부가 들어서고 미군이 급히 철수하게 되면서 크리스는 미국으로 돌아가게 되고 킴은 베트남에 홀로 남겨진 채 아들 탬을 낳게 된다. 한편, 킴의 약혼자였던 투이는 호찌민 정부 위원이 되어 반역자로 몰린 킴을 찾아와 결혼을 강요하지만, 킴이 자신의 청혼을 거절하자 위험한 선택을 하게 되는데