Alex Young to star in Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle at Southwark Playhouse
Alex Young is to star in Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim’s musical Anyone Can Whistle at Southwark Playhouse in April 2022.
Alex Young is to star in Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim’s musical Anyone Can Whistle at Southwark Playhouse in April 2022.
The musical performances in Anyone Can Whistle will please people who like brilliantly written songs, and they will fire the imagination of anyone who hears them to imagine another, better, story to tell around them.
We’re pleased to bring you these great first look production photos of Anyone Can Whistle which is now playing at London’s Union Theatre. This rare revival of Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical satire will run until 11 March 2017. Anyone Can Whistle is political allegory in musical comedy form that tells the story of a town that’s gone bankrupt because its only industry is manufacturing something that never wears out. In order to revive her town Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper and her town council fake a miracle – water flowing from a rock – to attract tourists. When patients at the local mental hospital escape and mix with the townspeople and tourists, chaos ensues whilst J. Bowden Hapgood, a fake psychiatrist falls in love with Fay Apple, a nurse at the asylum who has disguised herself as a miracle verifier sent from Lourdes. The show contains a raft of … Read more