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Thatcham actor plays Phil Spector in West End show
Tina Turner musical put on hold on opening night
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The new cast for the West End production of TINA The Tina Turner Musical, nominated for 12 Tony awards including Best Musical – in its third year at the Aldwych Theatre – rehearsed for five weeks, but the show closed the night they were due to open with a paying audience due to Covid. Thatcham actor Joe Evans was playing Phil Spector. Tina famously recorded River Deep – Mountain High in 1966, produced by Phil Spector as his ground-breaking masterpiece using his trademark Wall of Sound. Spector died on January 16, while serving a prison sentence of 19 years to life for the murder of actor Lana Clarkson.
Adam King Lights Macbeth for Mountview Livestream with Chauvet Professional
UK – A web of superstition has long surrounded Macbeth, the result of an apocryphal tale that Shakespeare actually conjured up the spells of real witches when writing his unsettling drama about the corroding power of unchecked ambition. Like avoiding walking under a ladder, or using the number 13, actors have traditionally considered it bad luck to mention Macbeth by name in a theatre, referring to it instead as “The Scottish Play.”
For Adam King, however, the play was not a jinx, but a welcome opportunity to jump back into lighting design after seven months of being idled by the pandemic. “My work calendar for the entire year was wiped out because of the lockdown,” said King. “I missed doing the thing I love.”
Adam King lights Macbeth with Chauvet
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
UK - For Adam King, Shakespeare’s
Macbeth was a welcome opportunity to jump back into lighting design after seven months of being idled by the pandemic. “My work calendar for the entire year was wiped out because of the lockdown,” said King. “I missed doing the thing I love.” Eager to get involved in theatre, King approached Mountview Drama School and asked if he could be of any use lighting shows for livestreams, pointing out that he had experience in lighting for theatre and as well as the camera. Much to his delight, Mountview responded by offering him the opportunity to light a series of shows starting with