When The Musical, Grand Opera Home, York
Emma Lucia as woman and Daniel Healy as man in after the Musical. Photo Mark Senior
DANIEL Healy and Emma Lucia are playing the lead roles together in after the Musical maybe not as soon as, but twice.
They first did therefore within the local premiere in Autumn 2018 in the brand brand New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, and Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch.
Now, that production’s director and musical director, the standard group of Peter Rowe and Ben Goddard, have reunited the duo when it comes to first Uk tour that started this thirty days (January) and it is playing the Grand Opera home, York, this week.
First a cult, micro-budget Irish film written and directed by John Carney in 2007, then a Broadway, West End and Dublin show, after the Musical tells the uplifting yet yearning story regarding the hopes and ambitions of two missing souls, a jilted Dublin road busker and a far more good Czech musician, whom unexpectedly fall in love across five brief times when you look at the Southern Irish money city.
The touring cast of 16 is led by Scotsman Healy as man and Lucia, from Durham, as Girl, whoever chemistry ended up being apparent straight away whenever press and media were invited to meet up with the business three weeks into rehearsal at Toynbee Hall in London’s East End: a question-and-answer session introduced with rousing renditions of Irish pub and ceilidh tracks together with show’s starting scene.
This peaked with Healy and Lucia’s performance of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s Oscar-winning signature track Falling gradually, with the actor-musician cast playing their component around them, “leaning to the story” into the pub environment.
Daniel’s relationship with as soon as extends back to “a few years ago”. (altro…)