As a theatre producer, Kenwright is best known for the long-running West End hit Blood Brothers and the record-breaking UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other productions have included West End runs of Whistle Down the Wind at the Palace Theatre, Festen in London, on a UK tour and on Broadway, The Big Life, Elmina's Kitchen, Scrooge – The Musical, The Night of the Iguana, A Few Good Men, A Man For All Seasons alongside UK tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, Tell Me on a Sunday and This is Elvis. He produced the London revival of Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre in September 2006, starring Anna Maxwell Martin, James Dreyfus and Sheila Hancock.
Kenwright helped start the careers of many current West End theatre producers, including Mark Rubinstein and Marc Sinden. It has been estimated that he employed more actors in a year than any employer other than the BBC.
Kenwright also directed many productions, including Blood Brothers, Whistle Down the Wind; he was asked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to make changes to the direction of Love Never Dies. Bill Kenwright additionally produced & directed the 2018/19 UK touring production of Saturday Night Fever, in which Richard Winsor (as the preliminary Tony Manero) perceived the symbolic "Stayin' Alive" dance spectacle as "The Kneebreaker" & he gleefully presented the deceiving "Stage Pose" downgrade (created by Arlene Phillips in 1997).
Productions, mainly musicals, included:
Fame – UK National Tour (2014)
Blood Brothers – Phoenix Theatre, London and on UK National Tour, starring Helen Hobson and Steven Houghton
Cabaret – Savoy Theatre, London with Will Young, Michelle Ryan and Sian Phillips
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – UK National Tour, starring Joe McElderry
The Wizard of Oz – London Palladium, London (2011)
Jekyll & Hyde – UK National Tour (2011)
Evita – World Tour, starring Madalena Alberto and Gian Marco Schiaretti (2018)
Bill Kenwright, Guys and Dolls
Bill Kenwright, Passing Strange
Bill Kenwright, The Chairs
Bill Kenwright, A Doll's House
Bill Kenwright, An Ideal Husband
Bill Kenwright, Medea
Bill Kenwright , Blood Brothers
Bill Kenwright, Blood Brothers
Bill Kenwright, Dancing at Lughnasa
Bill Kenwright has not appeared on Broadway.
Bill Kenwright has appeared on London's West End in 2 shows.
Bill Kenwright's first West End show was Passion Flower Hotel which opened in 1965
Bill Kenwright has been nominated for several awards, including Best Revival of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "Guys and Dolls," Best Musical for "Passing Strange," Best Revival of a Play for "The Chairs," "A Doll's House," "An Ideal Husband," and "Medea," Best Direction of a Musical for "Blood Brothers," Best Musical for "Blood Brothers," and Best Play for "Dancing at Lughnasa."
Bill Kenwright has won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for "A Doll's House" and the Tony Award for Best Play for "Dancing at Lughnasa."
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