Trafalgar Theatre Productions
DRESSED TO IMPRESS AT OLIVIER AWARDS
Following a sold out record-breaking season at the world famous London Palladium last summer, The Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I won the award for Best Costume Design at this year’s Olivier Awards thanks to the sumptuous costumes designed by Catherine Zuber.
COOL BRITANNIA!
Acclaimed theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble, in co-production with Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Shoreditch Town Hall, will bring the The Scotsman Fringe First Award and The Stage Edinburgh Award winning, smash-hit production Education, Education, Education to Trafalgar Studios from 31 May to 29 June. The show will be presented in the West End by Trafalgar Theatre Productions and Eilene Davidson.
VISIONS AND VALUES
A big thank you from Karin Gartzke and Jessamy Hadley to everyone involved in the very lively Vision and Values workshops this month. Just shows what can happen when creative minds from across Trafalgar Entertainment get together!
Defining our common purpose and the values that guide the way we work allowed us to explore the many things we have in common.
THE GRINNING MAN’S MARVELLOUS MAGICAL ACT
In June 2018 Andy Serkis and Tom Morris directed a full motion capture of Trafalgar Entertainment and Bristol Old Vic’s hit West End show The Grinning Man at the Imaginarium studios in Ealing. The capture was funded by Magic Leap in order to create content for an Augmented Reality experience using the pioneering Magic Leap glasses.
PRESS NIGHT GUESTS RAVE ABOUT ADMISSIONS
This month’s press night for Admissions at Trafalgar Studios was a star-studded affair with celebs such as Ben Stiller, Jill Halfpenny, Russell Tovey, Angela Griffin, Iwan Rhoen, Floella Benjamin, Natascha McElhone, Tyger Drew-Honey, Fionn Whitehead, Nick Moran and Charlie Condou walking our red carpet. The after show party took place at Brown’s on St Martin’s Lane.
12 OLIVIER AWARD NOMINATIONS
Trafalgar Theatre Productions has been nominated for a total of twelve Olivier Awards across five of its co-productions.
The nomination tally includes six nods for the critically acclaimed multi Tony Award winning smash hit, The Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, following a sold out record breaking season at the world famous London Palladium.
BRAND DESIGNS
Howard, Rosemary and Helen were pleased to introduce the reworked brand identity for what is now known as Trafalgar Entertainment.
Creativity, quality and inclusivity have always been important to us and our brand identity builds on what we have achieved so far and positions us to develop as a credible, stable, imaginative business.
RETURN OF THE KING
The multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And I is coming back to UK cinemas by popular demand on 4 April. Receiving both critical and audience acclaim, the film achieved the highest box office globally for a stage to screen event release of 2018.
JOSE AND ANNALENE SHINE AT PRESS LAUNCH
We headed to Manchester and Sunderland last month for the official press launches of The King and I. Local media were invited to interview the cast and were treated to stunning preview performances from Jose Llana, reprising his critically acclaimed Broadway performance as The King, and Annalene Beechey, fresh from her West End success.
ROCKY HORROR HEADS NORTH TO MANCHESTER
Following the opening tour dates in Brighton, the cast of The Rocky Horror Show took to the road and headed north for the next stop on the new UK tour, the Manchester Opera House.
Starring Corrie favourite Beverley Callard as The Narrator, the cast tore the house down with an electrifying first night performance, in front of Manchester media, VIPs and local celebs from Coronation Street and Hollyoaks.