THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY Set For UK Premiere In April

The UK première of the award-winning musical THRILL ME: The Leopold & Loeb Story, with book, music and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff, will be at the Tristan Bates Theatre, Tower Street,WC2 for a four-week season from Tuesday 5 April until Saturday 30 April 2011, starring George Maguire as Richard Loeb and Jye Frasca as Nathan Leopold and with off-stage dialogue recorded by Les Dennis, Patricia Quinn and Lee Mead.

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, a two-character, one-piano musical with seventeen numbers, is based on the true story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, the so-called "thrill killers"
who commit murder in 1924 in order to commit "the perfect crime." The story was the basis for Never The Sinner, Swoon and Alfred Hichcock's famous 1948 thriller movie ‘Rope'.

Stephen Dolginoff won an ASCAP Music Award for the New York production of Thrill Me in 2005. He received Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Musical and Best Music Score; and an
Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Best Off-Broadway Musical. There have been nearly 50 productions worldwide including Melbourne, Sydney, New Orleans, Athens, Los Angeles, Chicago
and Seoul (now in its 5th year), Upcoming premieres include Tokyo and Brazil.

The show stars Jye Frasca who was the original Joe Pesci in the London Production of Jersey Boys, as well as playing Frankie Valli on numerous occasions. His other credits include Wicked, Mary Poppins, and Trevor Nunn's productions of Love's Labour's Lost and Anything Goes at the National.

George Maguire's West End roles include Oliver! and Fame. He has played in two seasons of Quadrophenia, and was in the European tour of Rent.

Guy Retallack is currently directing Drowning On Dry Land by Alan Ayckbourn at Jermyn Street Theatre. Other productions include Liberty by Glyn Maxwell at the Globe, and Faster by Stephen Brown for Filter Theatre at the Lyric Hammersmith and subsequently at 59E59 Street Theater New York.

David Keefe was the assistant MD for Galt McDermott's The Human Comedy at the Young Vic in 2010. Other productions include as MD for Company at the Pleasance and Into The Woods at
the Guildhall School of Music. James Turner was assistant designer on Get Santa at the Royal Court and assistant to Ultz on Il Tabarro at the Royal Opera House last year. Richard Williamson was the lighting designer for Amphibians at the Bridewell in January.

Tristan Bates Theatre, 1A Tower Street WC2H 9NP

Box Office 020 7240 6283

Perfs Tues - Thurs & Sat 8.00pm, Fri 6.00pm & 8.30pm, Mats Sat & Sun 4.00pm. Running Time 1 hour 20 mins

Prices: £15.00 (£13.00 concs)

Tube: Leicester Square Buses: 24, 29, 176, 14, 19, 38

www.thrillmethemusical.com; www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk

 

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