Devised by Stephen Sondheim and Julia McKenzie
Directed by Janie Dee
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Musical Director Jordan Paul Clarke & Archie McMorran
Performed in arrangement by Music Theatre International
PUTTING IT TOGETHER - A Musical Review
14- 15 DEC
Devised by Stephan Sondheim and Julia Mckenzie
Directed by Janie Dee
Musical Directors Jordan Paul Clarke & Archie McMorran
Generously supported by The Mackintosh Foundation
Performed by:
Wife Janie Dee
Husband Edward Baker-Duly
Narrator Kate Butch
Younger Woman Miriana Pavia
Younger Man Tom Babbage
Direct from a blazing success at the renowned “Celebrate Voice” Music Festival, a fabulous production of Putting it Together a ‘review’ by Stephen Sondheim and Julia McKenzie. Multi award-winning West End and Broadway actress, Janie Dee directs and stars, alongside Tom Babbage, Kate Butch, Mariana Pavia and Edward Baker-Duly in the legendary composers revue show, Putting It Together.
Taking its name from a song from Sunday in the Park with George, Putting It Together showcases Sondheim's masterful songs in a show set at an elegant all-night, penthouse party. With an inspirational West End cast specially chosen by Janie, the show sees the party hosts face marital disillusionment, as a younger couple struggle with their deepest desires, whilst a comedic commentator oversees and influences the action.
Hot off the recent success of the West Ends Sondheim’s Old Friends, starring Janie, this show celebrates nearly 30 of Sondheim's witty, poignant and powerful songs from Follies, A Little Night Music, Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and many more.
Wife Janie Dee
Husband Edward Baker-Duly
Narrator Kate Butch
Younger Woman Miriana Pavia
Younger Man Tom Babbage
Musical Directors Jordan Paul Clarke & Archie McMorran
Generously supported by The Mackintosh Foundation
BOOKING INFORMATION
General Admission £30 | Concession £25 | Access for All £25
Note: Please contact boxoffice@theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk for your complementary ticket for a career/companion/friend
Duration: 90 mins
Interval: n/a
Content Warnings: tbc
Recommended for 12+
Tickets (All unreserved)
Ash Mills Photography | Celebrate Voice Festival
CAST | CREATIVES | PRODUCTION TEAM
Janie Dee
Sondheim’s Old Friends (Gielgud Theatre), The Burning Girls (Netflix) Follies (National Theatre, Olivier Award Nomination), A Little Night Music (Palace Theatre), Pinter's Celebration (Channel 4 with Colin Firth), acclaimed partnerships with Sondheim, Ayckbourn, Pinter and Peter Hall. Founder of London Climate Change Festival including her critically acclaimed Beautiful World Cabarets (Edinburgh Fringe) and Song for Nature (Coliseum, Sky Arts)
Edward Baker-Duly
Edward has worked in theatre, film and television in the UK, New York and South Africa.
On Broadway: The King and I (Lincoln Center Theatre) and Off-Broadway: Peter and the
Starcatcher(New World Stages).
London Credits include: The Third Man, The Bridges Of Madison County and Rookery Nook (Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre); The King and I and The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium); Gone With The Wind (New London); South Pacific (The National Theatre); West Side Story (Prince of Wales); Salad Days (Vaudeville); Anyone Can Whistle (Bridewell) and Timing (Kings Head).
Other UK and Ireland theatre credits include: Here & Now, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Kiss Me Kate, Copacabana, the Lady Vanishes, Dick Barton Special Agent, The Secretary Bird, September Tide, Twelfth Night, The Mikado, Side By Side By Sondheim, The Full Monty, The Pirates of Penzance and Singing in the Rain.
In South Africa he starred in Arcadia, Oklahoma!, Crazy For You, Me and My Girl, A Chorus Line, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Brigadoon and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.
Television credits: A Spy Among Friends, Litvinenko, The Velveteen Rabbit, Shades of Blue, Billions, The Blacklist, Time After Time, The Good Wife, Royal Pains, Downton Abbey, Hollyoaks, New Tricks, Yes Prime Minister, Upstairs Downstairs, Holby City, Doctors, Grange Hill, Emmerdale, Just Nuisance and Honeytown
Films include: Vindicta, Boys in the Boat, Blackwater Lane, Heidi Queen of the Mountain, The Circle, Paris Wine & Romance, De-Lovely, Micro Men, Botched, Welcome Home and Eva Stories.
Kate Butch
RuPaul's Drag Race UK; Kate if You Wanna Go Butcher, Wuthering Shites, Drag Queens vs Vampires (Edinburgh), Sleeping Beauty (Garrick Theatre), Peter Pan (Phoenix Theatre); Podcast Queers Gone By ('one of the world's funniest podcasts', The Guardian)
Miriana Pavia
Sondheim Workshop (Delfont Mackintosh, Julia McKenzie), Doctor Zhivago in Concert (London Palladium), Let’s Face the Music (Royal Albert Hall), The Olivier Awards (Royal Albert Hall)
Tom Babbage
(Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), The Motive and the Cue (National Theatre, Sam Mendes), The Fear Maid of the West (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Play That Goes Wrong (Tour), Fun at the Beach Romp-Bomp-a-Lomp! (Southwark Playhouse)
Musical Directors
Archie McMorran
Jordan Paul Clarke
