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GILLIAN LYNNE is currently working on the Broadway production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. She was a leading soloist with Sadler’s Wells Ballet, the star dancer at the Palladium, played opposite Errol Flynn in the movies and danced with all the greats on TV. She once choreographed, narrated and mimed all the roles in Peter and the Wolf for the BBC. She became instrumental in the development of jazz dance in Britain and her distinctive style - a fusion of classical and jazz - led to her groundbreaking work on Cats, which was recognized with a new category of Olivier Award, specially created for her to acknowledge Outstanding Achievement of the Year in a Musical. Gillian’s fifty-plus Broadway and West End shows include Tonight at Eight, Once Upon a Time, The Match Girls, Tomfoolery, Jeeves Takes Charge, Cabaret, The Roar of the Greasepaint, Pickwick, How Now Dow Jones, Collages, The Ambassador, The Card, Phil The Fluter, Hans Christian Andersen, The Yeoman of the Guard, My Fair Lady, Songbook, Dick Whittington, The Phantom of the Opera and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. For the Royal Shakespeare Company The Boyfriend, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Way of the World, As You Like It, Once in a Lifetime and The Secret Garden. Gillian’s opera productions include The Trojans, The Midsummer Marriage, The Flying Dutchman, Parsifal and Bluebeard. Among Gillian’s ballets are Lippizaner, The Brontes, and Journey for the Bolshoi. On television, Gillian has directed The Various Ends of Mrs F’s Friends, Easy Money, The Look of Love, The Morte d’Arthur, which won the Samuel G Engel Award in America and of course A Simple Man, which won the 1987 BAFTA. She staged many of The Muppet Show for ATV and her 11 feature films include Half a Sixpence, Man of La Mancha and Yentl. She was awarded the Austrian Silver Order of Merit for her production of Cats in Vienna, a Moliere award for Cats in Paris and was one of the ?21 for the 21st? chosen by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation of America. In 1997 she was awarded the CBE and in 2001 she was honored by the Royal Academy of Dance with the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award.
Bio as of March, 2005.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
Musicals: Directors and Choreographers - March, 2005 - Watch now.
SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio)
Gillian Lynne - February, 1996 - Listen Now.
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
Website:
www.gillianlynne.com
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