Sweet Charity
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 4, 2010
Closed Nov 6, 2010
Opened May 4, 2010
Closed Nov 6, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Matthew White's acclaimed production of Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory, starring Tamzin Outhwaite as Charity Hope Valentine, transfers to the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket!
The musical follows the misadventures of love encountered by the gullible and guileless Charity Hope Valentine, a woman who always gives her heart and her dreams to the wrong man. Cy Coleman's score features such favourite hits as "Hey, Big Spender," "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and "The Rhythm of Life."
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Theatre Royal Haymarket
Haymarket
London, England
Opened 29 Dec 1720. Closed in 1737 (partly for attacking the government), re-opened 1747. The current theatre opened on 4th July 1821 and was designed by Nash. Society of London Theatre member.
Haymarket
London, England
Opened 29 Dec 1720. Closed in 1737 (partly for attacking the government), re-opened 1747. The current theatre opened on 4th July 1821 and was designed by Nash. Society of London Theatre member.
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Matthew White's staging of the 1966 Cy Coleman-Dorothy Fields musical
Sweet Charity, now at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, is hugely entertaining if not quite as emotionally nuanced as it could be. The same can be said of its leading lady, Tamzin Outhwaite.
Based on Federico Fellini's 1957 film The Nights of Cabiria, about the exploits of an Italian street walker, the New York-set tuner makes it clear that all its heroine sells is her time, not her body. Dance hall hostess Charity Hope Valentine (Outhwaite) is good-natured, generous, and eternally optimistic -- despite being hopelessly unlucky in love and attracting the kind of men who only want to take her for a ride. She eventually [...]