CRAZY FOR YOU to be revived at Chichester Festival Theatre this summer

Chichester Festival Theatre will stage the 30th-anniversary revival of George and Ira Gershwin's Crazy For You, starring Charlie Stemp as Bobby, from 11 July-4 September.

Tom Edden (One Man, Two Guvnors) will also make his Chichester debut as Bela Zangler.

With a book by Ken Ludwig and direction and choreography by the Tony award-winning Susan Stroman, this hilarious, riotously entertaining musical is packed with glorious Gershwin melodies and its stunning tap-dance routines are guaranteed to set the spirits soaring.

Theatre-mad Bobby Child is torn between his show-business dreams and his rich, demanding New York fiancée and rich, demanding New York mother who want him to run the family bank. On his mother’s insistence, he reluctantly heads west for the bygone mining town of Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on a mortgage.

There he finds the mortgage in question is on a dilapidated Victorian theatre and the owner’s daughter Polly is the girl of his dreams. Desperate to prove his good faith and win her love, Bobby lights on the idea of putting on a show – complete with glamorous dancers from New York’s Follies – to save the theatre and renew the town…

The production is designed by Beowulf Boritt, with costumes by William Ivey Long, lighting by Ken Billington, musical direction by Alan Williams, new orchestrations by Doug Besterman and Mark Cumberland, original orchestrations by William David Brohn, sound by Kai Harada, new arrangements by David Krane, and original arrangements by Peter Howard.

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