An Ideal Husband - Vaudeville Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
LINDSAY Posner’s production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband has extended its booking period at the Vaudeville Theatre until February 26, 2011.
Previously Posted: Alexander Hanson and his wife Samantha Bond will star together on stage for the first time in a new production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, which opens at the Vaudeville Theatre on November 10, 2010 (previews from November 4).
Sir Robert Chiltern (Hanson) is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife (Rachael Stirling). But all this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley (Bond) appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed.
Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring (Elliot Cowan), an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his family, and for the next 48 hours all their lives are turned upside down.
Alexander Hanson‘s many musical theatre credits include We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre), Enter the Guardsman (Donmar Warehouse), Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi Theatre), Aspects of Love (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Candide (National Theatre), The Sound of Music (London Palladium), Marguerite (Theatre Royal Haymarket), for which he received an Olivier nomination for his performance as Otto, and most recently, Trevor Nunn’s A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory, Garrick Theatre and Broadway).
Samantha Bond‘s extensive theatre credits include Arcadia (Duke of York’s Theatre), Donkeys’ Years (Comedy Theatre), A Woman of No Importance (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Macbeth (Albery Theatre), Amy’s View (National Theatre and Broadway), The Memory of Water (Vaudeville Theatre) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Ambassadors Theatre).
She is, however, probably best known as Miss Moneypenny in the Bond films Die Another Day, The World is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Dies and Goldeneye.
Lindsay Posner will direct a cast that also includes Charles Kay and Fiona Button.
It’s more that ten years since An Ideal Husband was seen in the West End, although a production by CandyKing Theatre was performed at Greenwich Playhouse earlier this year.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue, with Jeff Goldblum and Mercedes Ruehl, continues at the Vaudeville Theatre until September 25, 2010. It will be followed – from September 29 to October 10 – by Australian comedian Pam Ann.