THE THOMAS HARDY
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
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MUSICAL ADAPTATION OF TESS
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://business.virgin.net/jfk.rep/tess.html
Contact: Bruce Athol MacKinnon (jfk.rep@virgin.net)
Date: 07/01/04
Provides a notice that JFK Repertory Ltd and Thoor Productions Ltd co-produced a musical adaptation of Hardy's Tess, with music by Stephen Edwards and Lyrics by Justin Fleming. Includes advertising poster reproduction, cast lists, quotes from reviews, etc.
COMMENT:
As of 01/14/00 the show has closed. For the following excerpt from a notice in the London Times I am idebted to Martin Ray of Aberdeen University:
"Thomas Hardy flop musical ends in tears . . . . A MUSICAL version of Thomas Hardy's tragedy Tess of
the d'Urbervilles has become one of the most expensive
flops in the history of West End theatre."