The Biograph Girl

The British musical The Biograph Girl salutes Hollywood’s glorious era of silent pictures. Parading the movies’ earliest heroes, heroines and clowns, it takes a refreshing look at the birth of the “flickers” and that memorable age of stardust and stars, of tinsel glamour and scandals, of sky-rocketing salaries and tremendous vitality. It is a nostalgic reminiscence of the silent movies seen through the eyes of four famous figures: Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish, both of them great silent film stars, D. W. Griffith, the most famous of all the American silent directors, and Adolph Zukor, one of the studio bosses who laid the foundations of the movie industry we know today. The show is written by Warner Brown and David Heneker (writers of Irma La Douce, Expresso Bongo, Half a Sixpence and Charlie Girl).