Cameron Mackintosh’s Betty Blue Eyes to open at the Novello next year
Cameron Mackintosh’s new musical Betty Blue Eyes is to open in the West End next year.
It will be the producer’s first original musical in more than a decade and will star Sarah Lancashire and Reece Shearsmith.
The show is based on Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray’s film A Private Function in an adaptation by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman with a new score by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Richard Eyre directs.
Betty Blue Eyes centres around the festivities for the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1947 and a pig named Betty who is being illegally reared to furnish a local banquet to celebrate the occasion.
The production will preview at the Novello Theatre from March 19, 2011.
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