All Bob's Women posts early closing notices
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
AFTER receiving a mauling from critics, the new musical comedy, All Bob’s Women, has posted closing notices at the Arts Theatre. Originally booking until August 24, 2008, it will now close this coming Sunday (June 29) after just three previews and six performances.
Guido Fabris, for lead producers Chokolate, said: “Unfortunately this is another example of a European hit getting lost in translation in London. The original Italian version of All Bob’s Women ran for nine months in Milan. We are extremely proud of our cast and production team and the hard work they put in.”
Previously Posted: The first Nancy hopeful voted out of the BBC talent search I’d Do Anything, 24-year-old Amy Booth-Steel, is also the first Nancy to be cast in a West End production. She will star alongside Bad Girls‘ Nicole Faraday in All Bob’s Women which runs from June 18 to August 24, 2008, at the Arts Theatre.
In what is described as a sexy new musical comedy, Casasanova Bob is a man on a mission – to seduce five very different women. And so desperate is he to score with them all and keep their existence a secret from the others, that he resorts to extreme measures to learn their secret desires.
Amy Booth-Steel is a graduate of the Birmingham School of Acting. She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Bursary in 2006 and, in 2007, was a finalist for the BBC Carelton Hobbs Bursary Award. She appeared in the BBC daytime series Doctors as well as in several Birmingham theatre productions. She recently toured the UK in Scooby Doo (as Velma).
Nicole Faraday became a household name after three years in ITV’s Bad Girls as prisoner Snowball Merriman – last seen committing suicide by hanging herself from the G2 landing. She also appeared in Bad Girls The Musical at the Garrick Theatre. Her other theatre credits include the UK touring production of Over the Rainbow (as Eva Cassidy) and Marilyn the Musical (as Marilyn Monroe) at Greenwich Theatre.
Russell Labey will direct a cast that also includes Sharon Cherry Ballard, Danielle Corlass, Sam Oatley, Tanya Robb and Lucy Thatcher.
Labey won the Best Musical TMA Award for his adaptation of Whistle Down the Wind which he directed at West Yorkshire Playhouse. He was Resident Director on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium as well as the 2001/2002 UK tour of Sunset Boulevard. His directing credits include Discotivity, which starred Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus; Howard Goodall’s Days of Hope (King’s Head Theatre); and New Boy and Hardcore (Edinburgh and London Pleasance).
All Bob’s Women is written and composed by Romy Padovano, whose musical Eppy sold out for two years in Italy, and adapted by Michael Kelly. Choreographed by Sadie Flower, the production is designed by Jason Denvir, with lighting design by Mike Robertson and musical arrangement and musical direction by Sacha Puttnam.
All Bob’s Women is produced by Guido Fabris and Caroline Khouri of Chokolate.
Tickets: Wednesday to Saturday – £29.50, £22.50, £10; Tuesday all seats £20.
For more information call the box office on 0844 847 1608 or visit the website.