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Baz Bamigboye: Steel yourselves for Full Monty's rock bottom deal

The lads from The Full Monty will be in full swing in the West End next year, stripped down for action — and with stripped-down prices to match.
The bare essentials are these: tickets for previews of the stage version of the musical, about six out-of-work Sheffield steel workers who moonlight as strippers, will be slashed to Nineties prices.
For instance, seats listed at £52.50 once the show has officially opened will go for, roughly, £29.50 during previews.
After its London premiere, The Full Monty, which has sold an amazing £7¿million worth of seats since it kicked off a nationwide tour
After its London premiere, The Full Monty, which has sold an amazing £7million worth of seats since it kicked off a nationwide tour, will have a ticket range of £9.50 to £52.50
And producer David Pugh also declared: ‘No booking fees! No premium prices!! No rip-offs, apart from their clothes!!!
‘It’s simple,’ Pugh said. ‘Theatre is losing too many people. They shell out premium prices of more than £127 and they think: “It’s too expensive! We won’t come back because we can’t afford it.” ’
Premium seats for hot shows such as The Audience and The Book Of Mormon can go for well over £100; double that if touts get their hands on tickets.
After its London premiere, The Full Monty, which has sold an amazing £7 million worth of seats since it kicked off a nationwide tour in February at the Lyceum in Sheffield, will have a ticket range of £9.50 to £52.50.
It will preview at the Noel Coward Theatre from February 15 next year, taking over the  theatre at the end of Michael Grandage’s inaugural season. (Grandage’s final play, which starts previews on November 23, will star Jude Law as Henry V.) When I caught The Full Monty at the Lyceum, back in early February, the house was packed with women — and a few men, too — screaming their appreciation for Simon Beaufoy’s stage adaptation of the film he wrote back in the mid-Nineties.
Some scenes will be trimmed and re-structured to make way for new material and some additional songs
Some scenes will be trimmed and re-structured to make way for new material and some additional songs
Director Daniel Evans wants the  actors who created the six strippers on stage — Kenny Doughty, Sidney Cole, Kieran O’Brien, Craig Gazey, Roger Morlidge and Simon Rouse — to continue getting their kit off, with a little help from Donna Summer, Hot Chocolate and Tom Jones.
Evans and choreographer Steven Hoggett will rehearse the company for the London show in early January. Some scenes will  be trimmed and re-structured to make way for new material by Beaufoy — and some additional songs.
They will then do a pre-London run — two weeks at Cardiff’s New Theatre from January 20 and a fortnight at the Theatre Royal, Bath, from February 3 — to ensure the chaps all jiggle in time to the music.
Pugh, who’s producing the show with business partner Dafydd Rogers, noted that there will be no booking fee online or by telephone when using Delfont Mackintosh sites or lines, though other ticket agents will charge their regular fees.
‘I can promise you, though, that  the guy playing Horse won’t  be reducing anything,’ Pugh observed.

Why I've got Mainwaring on my mind

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Simon Russell Beale doesn’t hang about. Five  minutes ago, or so it seems, he was kicking up his heels on stage in Privates On Parade. Now he has entered  the middle ranks in a new  production of Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse.
Beale plays Colonel Roote, who runs a sinister government institution in 1958. ‘He’s a small-minded little bully who’s not very good at his job, so he takes it out on his subordinates,’ he told me.
Those underlings include John Simm, Clive Rowe, Christopher Timothy, Indira Varma, John  Heffernan and Harry Melling — all gathered by director Jamie Lloyd and his partners at the ATG theatre group for the second of four plays to be staged in the Trafalgar Studios in Westminster. ‘He’s a second-rater,’ Beale carried on, about Roote. ‘He’s paranoid that other people are going to take his job — for good reason, I think.
‘During rehearsals I’ve had the sound of Pinter in my head because, of course, he played Roote.
‘And then there’s also Captain Mainwaring from Dad’s Army in my head because, in a way, Roote’s a little like him — the Captain Mainwaring thing of always being right, but of course he never was.
‘Mainwaring used to say: “You stupid boy!” and that could be applied to the despicable Roote,’ he added.
The Hothouse begins performances on May 4.

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The team behind the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical — called Stephen Ward, after the society osteopath who was sacrificed by the ‘Establishment’ as the Profumo scandal unfolded in the early Sixties — have their eyes on the Aldwych Theatre, should it become available later in the year.
Top Hat is currently running there — but if it continues tapping away at the Aldwych there are at least two other theatres the composer is said to admire. Stephen Ward (which may need a name change) features lyrics and book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton.
The National Portrait Gallery is running a very useful exhibition from Monday through to September 15 called Scandal ’63: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The  Profumo Affair.
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John le Carre has four movie projects based on his novels in the works. William Monahan, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of The Departed, is in talks with The Ink Factory and BBC Films to adapt Le Carre’s latest, A Delicate Truth, into a feature film.
Australian film-maker Justin Kurzel hopes to direct Ewan McGregor, Ralph Fiennes and Mads Mikkelsen in Our Kind Of Traitor in the autumn. Anton Corbijn has already shot A Most Wanted Man with Philip Seymour Hoffman, while Gary Oldman and producer Tim Bevan have both told me of plans for Oldman to go into George Smiley mode once more with Smiley’s People.

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