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Casting announced for Moonlight and Magnolia's at Nottingham Playhouse
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2020年1月29日
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Coronation Street's Joe Alessi is to star in Nottingham Playhouse's upcoming production of the hysterical comedy Moonlight and Magnolias.
The cast of Nottingham Playhouse’s upcoming hysterical comedy Moonlight and Magnolias has been revealed - and it includes Coronation Street and EastEnders star Joe Alessi.
Alessi – who recently played villain Kel Hinchley on the popular soap cobbles, following a stint on EastEnders – will be playing legendary Hollywood film producer David O.Selznick. His other theatre credits include Fatherland (Frantic Assembly) and Dr Seuss’s The Lorax (Old Vic). He appeared in the Playhouse’s critically acclaimed production of Robert Lepage's Polygraph in 2003.
Three weeks into filming Selznick famously scrapped the Gone With The Wind script, tasking a new director and screenwriter with creating a brand new one from scratch. Hilariously they only had five days to achieve cinematic magic. Moonlight and Magnolias speculates what happened when a studio boss had to take drastic action - locking his new creatives in his office with a typewriter, a novel and just peanuts and bananas for food.
Joe Alessi said: “It’s great to playing a character as big, bold and boisterous as David O. Selznick – he was truly a giant of cinema at that time and his antics are legendary. Bringing him to life as part of this comedy is proving to be great fun.”
Also joining the cast is Dan Fredenburgh (Pig Farm, St James Theatre and Bang, Bang, Bang, Royal Court) as frustrated screenwriter Ben Hecht and Oscar Pearce (The Tempest, Bring Up the Bodies and Wolf Hall, RSC) as movie director Victor Fleming. Nottingham actress Hayley Doherty (Much Ado About Nothing, Comedy of Errors and Macbeth, Guildford Shakespeare Company) will feature as the long-suffering secretary Miss Poppenghul.
The play will be directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward (director of Groan Ups in the West End, a new play by the award-winning team behind The Play That Goes Wrong), who previously worked on Nottingham Playhouse’s award-winning Shebeen.
Moonlight and Magnolias will be playing at Nottingham Playhouse between 21 February and 7 March 2020.
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