Bloom and Zane to Learn 'Dance Lessons' in West End

Variety reports that Claire Bloom and Billy Zane will co-star in an upcoming West End production of Richard Alfieri's play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks.

Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman (who directed the play's previous New York and L.A. stagings), the play will run from November 27th through March 3rd at the Haymarket.

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, which "concerns the mutual life lessons learned by a widow and her flamboyant dance instructor," ran on Broadway in 2003 for 26 previews and 2 regular performances in a production starring Mark Hamill and Polly Bergen.  The play fared somewhat better in a 2001 Los Angeles run; it starred Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce.

Bloom received a Tony nomination for her performance in Electra, and has also been seen on Broadway in The Innocents, Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, Rashomon and Romeo and Juliet, among others.  Her film credits include Mighty Aphrodite, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Look Back in Anger, and Limelight, among many others.

Zane's film and TV credits include BloodRayne, Silver City, "Boston Public," The Believer, "Cleopatra," Titanic, Danger Zone, The Phantom, Tombstone, Orlando and "Twin Peaks."  He has appeared on Broadway as Billy Flynn in Chicago.