Callow to Play Count Fosco in London Woman in White
By: BWW News Desk Jul. 29, 2005
Callow, a versatile actor, director and writer, will take on the villainous role of the corpulent count in late August, following Andrews, Michael Ball, and Michael Crawford (who originated the part). The role will be nostalgic for Callow; he played Count Fosco in a BBC television version of the classic Wilkie Collins novel on which the musical is based.
Callow's West End credits include Simon Gray's The Holy Terror and Amadeus (in which he originated the title role of Mozart). Knighted in 1999, he received an Olivier Award for directing Carmen Jones; he has staged other plays as well as operas. As a film actor, he is familiar to those who have seen The Phantom of the Opera, Shakespeare in Love, Four Weddings and a Funeral and A Room with a View. Callow penned well-reviewed biographies of Orson Welles and Charles Laughton (as well as his own autobiography Love Is Where It Falls), and he has written often on Charles Dickens, who he once portrayed in a one-man show.
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