Perchance to Dream

Archive Listings for Perchance to Dream

T01351428644 (FINBOROUGH11) Producer Neil McPherson (for the Finborough Theatre). Director Max Pappenheim. Musical Director Ross Leadbeater. Design Gregor Donnelly. Sound Edward Lewis. Performer Taube Brahms. Performer Michael Burgen. Performer Clare Louise Connolly. Performer Laura Hanna. Performer Amanda Hootman. Performer Annabel Leventon. Performer James Marchant. Performer Rachael McCormick. Performer Martin Milnes. Performer Kelly Price. Performer Claire Redcliffe. Performer Robert Rees. Performer James Russell. Performer Gemma Sandzer. Performer Katy Treharne.
4 Sep 11 to 26 Sep 11	Finborough, Inner London :: V199 listing details L371652903
T1709429983 (PRESENT03) Company Present Opera.
21 Aug 03 to 24 Aug 03	The Opera House, Buxton :: V424 listing details L01273143018
Other listings
5 Jun 97 to 7 Jun 97	Pavilion Theatre, Worthing :: V726 listing details L01357967142

Details

Musical :: Spanning the Regency, Victorian and post-war eras, and featuring a score filled with some of Novello's most ravishing songs including Love is My Reason, When I Curtsied to the King, A Woman's Heart and the classic We'll Gather Lilacs, Perchance to Dream is a classic Novello musical - an escapist 'musical romance' whose original 1945 run in the West End played for 1,022 performances. In 1818, Sir Graham Rodney, an impoverished womaniser, is the owner of Huntersmoon, a magnificent old country house, but seeks relief from his life of leisure by masquerading as the dread highwayman "Frenchy". Just at the moment when he finally finds love, the law runs him to ground with tragic results. A generation later, his estate has passed to the wrong side of the family and tragedy strikes a second time. More than a century must go by before the ghosts of Huntersmoon can finally be laid to rest...

Author

Ivor Novello