Edinburgh Festival Theatre to stage second in-house Christmas show
Edinburgh Festival Theatre is to stage its second in-house Christmas production this December, when Anna Linstrum directs Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman’s musical version of the Secret Garden.
Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s novel, the musical picked up a pair of Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway in 1991. The Festival Theatre production will be designed by Francis O’Connor, a regular at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum. David Grindrod will be overseeing casting, which is expected to be completed within a month.
John Stalker, chief executive of Festival City Theatres Trust which runs the Festival as well as the Edinburgh King’s, said that he is “thrilled to have been granted the rights by Lucy and Marsha” and revealed that the production “has been invited to play in Toronto’s majestic Princess of Wales Theatre by David Mirvish.”
The FCTT is currently engaged in negotiations to tour the production round the UK after its five-week run in Edinburgh. It will transfer to Toronto in March 2011.
Announcing their autumn and winter seasons, the FCTT also revealed that Andy Gray will return to the King’s Panto, joining Allan Stewart and Grant Stott in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk staged by Qdos Entertainment.
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