All posts by Scott Rylander
You can shoot me straight to the top
With the London School of Musical Theatre but weeks away from their return to the Bridewell Theatre, I thought I’d revisit the second of their shows there last year, Applause.
Applause, based on the film All About Eve, is basically an instruction manual for aspiring stars who happen to be psychopaths. Think of it as Fatal Attraction meets Fame and you’re there.
To the pub
Publicity shots of actor and all-round good egg Stevie Webb, shot at the Landor pub to advertise the Landor Theatre’s “An Audience With” series.
Rodelinda
And it’s back to the Coliseum for the English National Opera’s reimagining of Handel’s Rodelinda. If you want to see this one, get down there this evening. It’s the last performance.
A happy jester he is not
Shots from the extraordinary-looking new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the English National Opera.
The show, with its gigantic wood-paneled set, runs until 14 March.
Guns and nipple tassels
Poster shots and production photos from Burlesque, which ran at the Jermyn Street Theatre.
The musical, an engaging look at the plight of revue theatres under McCarthyism, went on to win the Offie award for best new musical.
Assistant for the poster shoot at the Southwark Playhouse: Jaap Jong.
In the beginning
Going through the archives the other day I came across the first publicity shots I ever took, all the way back at the beginning of 2010, to promote Tennessee Williams’ take on Chekhov’s The Seagull, The Notebook of Trigorin.
The piece went on to generate a debate in the Guardian over costuming accuracy, which has got to be something of a rarity…
Finian’s Rainbow
It shouldn’t be possible to squeeze a cast this size into the Union Theatre and have them whirl and jig with all the gusto they do. And yet, somehow, they fit.
Shots from the amazing Finian’s Rainbow, in its first professional London revival since its original West End run. The show runs until 15 March.
The Flying Dutchman
Production shots from the massive staging of Wagner’s Flying Dutchman at the English National Opera two years ago.
Swing your boom
Returning the blog to its usual jumble of things that happened just now and things that happened rather longer ago, stills of a Drama Direct screen acting class, led by the actor Mark McGann, for clients of agents ADA, shot on a beautifully warm, sunny day at Hardwick House in Oxfordshire.
