Trevor Nunn Has 'Follies' On Short-List of 2011 Shows

Baz Bamigboye is reporting in today's UK Daily Mail that Trevor Nunn has Follies on the list of shows that he wants to direct as part of his year-long committment for 2011 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Bamigboye writes that "The award-winning director will mount four productions to run from January after Sweet Charity ends its run at the venue. Nunn has a long list of nine shows to choose from because some (for various reasons) will drop off.

I'm told that Nunn will need to sign a major box-office name before Follies, which will cost £2 million, gets the green light. No name, no Follies."

The original production of Follies starred Dorothy Collins, Alexis Smith, John McMartin and Gene Nelson.  It opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on April 4th, 1971 to run for 522 performances, and was revived on Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2001. 

Trevor Nunn most recently directed the revival of A Little Night Music, now on Broadway.

From 1968 to 1986, he was the youngest and longest-serving artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company. During that time he directed most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby (five Tony Awards) and Les Misérables, the longest-running musical in the world. He recently returned to the RSC to direct King Lear and The Seagull. From 1997 to 2003 he was director of the National Theatre, where his productions included award-winning revivals of Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk and The Cherry Orchard as well as Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and Anything Goes. He has directed the world premieres of Arcadia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, The Coast of Utopia and Rock ‘n' Roll by Tom Stoppard and Cats, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard and The Woman in White by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre work includes Timon of Athens, Skellig (Young Vic); The Lady From the Sea (Almeida); Porgy and Bess (West End); Scenes From a Marriage (Coventry); A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End); Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre); and Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit theWind (Old Vic). His opera productions include Idomeneo, Porgy and Bess, Così fan Tutte, Peter Grimes (Glyndebourne and Salzburg) and Katya Kabanova and Sophie's Choice (Royal Opera House).

His work for television includes Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Othello and King Lear and on film Hedda, Lady Jane and Twelfth Night.