Red Hot and Cole 2001

Performance date: June 2001

Venue: The Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke

Principals:

Elsa Maxwell	Gabrielle Esplin
Ethel Merman	Jean Leadbeatter
Cole Porter	Matthew Laxton
Irene Castle	Jenni Warren
Paul	Nick Bulpitt
Sara Murphy Dorothy Parker Hedda Hopper Bella Spewack	Stephanie Webb
Lovella Parsons	Karen Watson
Clifton Webb English Soldier George Kaufman Noel Coward	Simon Brickell
Linda Porter	Bridget Hunter
Bricktop	Sarah Wood
Moss Hart	Andy Tungate
Monty Woolley Ray Goetz	Nick Williams
Tony (Pianist)	Ron Pickering

Production team:

Director:	Alastair Ramsay
Musical Director:	Anne Bell

Synopsis

Red, Hot And Cole celebrates the life of Cole Porter.

It opens at a party being thrown by a group of his fans. The party is set in the 1920s with the people at the party being transformed into the friends and acquaintances of Porter over his whole life.

Background

Porter (1891-1964) composed songs for a string of musical comedies and was known for his brilliant lyrics, masterful interior rhythm and catchy melodies. Porter classics include Night and Day, I Get a Kick Out of You, I've Got You Under My Skin, Too Darn Hot and Love for Sale. Porter's songs were written in such a way that they can be easily interpreted now as at the height of the Jazz Age. They're classics but still are very fresh.

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Red Hot and Cole 2001