Judy The Musical
Terry Wale
Genre: Biographic
Cast size: 12
Duration: Two Act
Terry Wale | Musical | Biographic| 7m, 5f
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'Judy' by Terry Wale, was first performed at the Swan Theatre in Worcester, and was directed by John Doyle. After a journey via Bristol Old Vic and Greenwich Theatre, it finally opened at the Strand Theatre in London under the direction of John David. Lesley Mackie was awarded a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical at the end of that year. The play was also nominated for a London Theatre Critics Award.
Judy' is a play with music (and a 'jukebox' musical) which encompasses the life story of Judy Garland from early childhood to her untimely death at the age of forty-seven in 1969. The first act is devoted to her years as a young Hollywood film-star, exploited and drug-induced by the powers-that-be, while the second is largely given over to her latter-day on-stage life in concert. Her journey is punctuated with the songs that made her famous, and with the many roller-coaster relationships that accompanied her throughout her life.
For those amongst us who grew up with her, Judy Garland was, and always will be, the girl-next-door who became a movie star. There never was, and there never will be, another film star quite like her, because there will never be another Hollywood like the one that created, used and abused her. Nor is it likely that there will ever be another film star who could move from screen to stage with such professional ease, and capture theatre audiences around the world with that same charismatic appeal to the heart.
This show has played in Sweden, Germany, New Zealand, Austria and Japan.
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