CHARLIE CONDOU - No.1164

EAST ENDERS VS CORONATION STREET

kz0rm1: @Charliecondou I hope you'll get the chance to see my @M0nkeyboi @whatagayplay @edfringe @Cvenues #cheeky #fun #explicit #greatnightout

Charliecondou: @kz0rm1 @M0nkeyboi @whatagayplay @edfringe @Cvenues not unless it comes to London

kz0rm1: @Charliecondou @M0nkeyboi @whatagayplay oh nooo I thought you was up @edfringe would have been great. Oh well :-( love you in EE btw

Charliecondou: @kz0rm1 @M0nkeyboi @whatagayplay @edfringe @Cvenues or maybe CS?

kz0rm1: @Charliecondou @M0nkeyboi @whatagayplay @edfringe @Cvenues ooh what's that charlie?

kz0rm1: @Charliecondou I've just fell in. How #embarrassedamIrightnow! Don't take offence I watch all the soaps and still get confused who's in wot

JOLLY NIGHT OUT

jess_alford: This is exciting for UA's @Charliecondou and @nancy_crane. It'll be a jolly night out with @kirkwhelanforan for sure! http://wos.im/1tRXrk4

Charliecondou: @jess_alford @nancy_crane @kirkwhelanforan he's coming to every single performance!

kirkwhelanforan: Go CC! @Charliecondou http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/corrie-star-charlie-condou-goes-back-on-stage-in-tale-of-gay-mans-midlife-crisis-9646308.html

BUBBLE TEA

Charliecondou: "Fancy meeting in town for a bubble tea?", said nobody, ever.

dodgethedraft: @Charliecondou Apparently, there has been a revolution I've completely missed. Never heard of it till yesterday. Chorley has a shop though.

Charliecondou: @dodgethedraft I'm in soho. They are everywhere!

hayleysoraya: Congrats baby! Bubble tea soon! Xx RT @Charliecondou: I'm just doing this now @NextFallLND @swkplay http://t.co/00ymhOYqJm

NEXT FALL

MartinDelaney: On route to meet @NextFallLND's Adam AKA @Charliecondou #NextFall

Charliecondou: @1MartinDelaney @NextFallLND there in 5 mins

1MartinDelaney: Quick cuppa with the lovely @Charliecondou Really looking forward to working with him!

NOMINATE

Charliecondou: .@OUTstandingiB is looking for the #Top100 #inspirational #LGBT & #Ally executives. Nominate your role model here: http://bit.ly/1uCYXI0

MrSukiSandhu: .@Charliecondou @OUTstandingiB thanks Charlie!! We appreciate your support & congrats on your new role on the stage. Will get tickets! X

EPSTEIN A GO-GO

Charliecondou: See @EpsteinThePlay at @lsqtheatre a fantastic show with two of the best performances I've seen on stage from @AndrewLancel & @willfinlason

AndrewLancel: RT @Charliecondou: See @EpsteinThePlay at @lsqtheatre a fantastic show with two of the best performances I've seen on stage from @AndrewLancel

EpsteinThePlay: RT @Charliecondou: See @EpsteinThePlay at @lsqtheatre a fantastic show with two of the best performances I've seen on stage from @AndrewLancel

NEWS 

4 August 2014

Corrie actor Charlie Condou to star in UK premiere of Next Fall

By: Matthew Hemley

Charlie Condou will star in Next Fall at the Southwark Playhouse

Former Coronation Street actor Charlie Condou is to lead the cast of comedy drama Next Fall, which gets its UK premiere at the Southwark Playhouse in September. The show will be directed by Luke Sheppard, who helmed In the Heights at Southwark Playhouse and who will next year direct a musical based on Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole for Curve in Leicester. Next Fall ran on Broadway in 2010, produced by Elton John and David Furnish. It is written by Geoffrey Nauffts, who was nominated for a Tony award for the play. Other cast members include Nancy Crane, Ben Cura, Martin Delaney, Mitchell Mullen, and Sirine Saba. The show is designed by David Woodhead, and has lighting by Howard Hudson. It has sound by David Gregory and was cast by Sophie Parrott. Next Fall runs from September 24 to October 25, with press night on September 29. It is produced by James Quaife Productions and David Adkin.

Charlie Condou stars in Next Fall at Southwark Playhouse

The former Coronation Street star will lead the cast of the Broadway comedy, which opens in September

By Rosie Bannister • 4 Aug 2014 • London, Off-West End

Charlie Condou

Former Coronation Street star Charlie Condou will lead the cast of the UK premiere of comedy Next Fall at the Southwark Playhouse next month. Geoffrey Naufft's play, which portrays the ups and downs of a couple with opposing religious views, is directed by Luke Sheppard, who helmed the recent production at the Southwark Playhouse of In the Heights. Charlie Condou is best known for playing Marcus Dent in Coronation Street. His other TV credits include The Impressionists and Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. The rest of the cast comprises Nancy Crane (Chimerica, Vieux Carre), Ben Cura (Viva Forever, La Forza Del Destino), Martin Delaney (The Ministry Of Pleasure, Local Boy), Mitchell Mullen (A Bunch of Amateurs, Superior Donuts) and Sirine Saba (Holy Warriors, Antony & Cleopatra). With design by David Woodhead and lighting design by Howard Hudson, Next Fall runs at the Southwark Playhouse from 29 September to 25 October 2014 (previews from 24 September). It is produced by James Quaife Productions and David Adkin Limited.

LOUISE JURY, CHIEF ARTS CORRESPONDENT 

Published: 04 August 2014

Charlie Condou is to star in the UK premiere of a drama championed by Elton John. 

Condou, 41, who played midwife Marcus Dent in Coronation Street, will star in the Tony-nominated show Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts — which was so loved by Sir Elton and his husband David Furnish that they produced it on Broadway. He will play Adam, an atheist in a long-term relationship with the devoutly religious Luke in which an accident changes everything. Condou said the character of Adam is “quite neurotic and a little lost” — and added that his relationship is utterly different from the actor’s own, with writer Cameron Laux and their two children, Georgia, four, and Hal, two. He said: “Adam cannot let go of the fact that his partner who is perfect in so many ways has this belief in a higher power that he finds completely insane. “When I read it, there was just something about it that I understood. What is great about this play is it asks a lot of interesting questions about what it is to be in a relationship, about commitment, about what faith means.

Charlie Condou to star in UK premiere of Broadway’s Next Fall

August 4, 2014 by Neil Cheesman

Charlie Condou is to star in the UK premiere of Tony Award-nominated Broadway comedy drama Next Fall, championed by Elton John. Next Fall, by award-winning writer Geoffrey Nauffts, will play at Southwark Playhouse from Wednesday 24th September to Saturday 25 October. Next Fall will be directed by Luke Sheppard, whose critically acclaimed production of In The Heights was a sold-out success at Southwark Playhouse earlier this year.

Next Fall portrays the ups and downs of Adam and Luke’s long term relationship and how they make it work – despite their differences. Luke is devoutly religious, while Adam is an atheist. However, following an unexpected accident which changes everything, Adam must turn to Luke’s family and friends for support…and answers. This timely and compelling new American play goes beyond a typical love story and paints a beautiful and funny portrait of modern romance, questioning commitment, faith and unconditional love.

Next Fall opened in New York in 2009 to critical acclaim before transferring to the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway in 2010, where it was produced by Sir Elton John and David Furnish.

Geoffrey Nauffts won the John Gassner Award at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best New American Play for Next Fall. The play was also nominated for Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards (2010), Outstanding New Broadway Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards (2010) and Best Play at the Tony Awards (2010).

Charlie Condou (who plays Adam) became a household name playing series regular Marcus Dent in the ITV drama Coronation Street. His theatre credits include: Dying for It (Almedia Theatre), The Changeling (Southwark Playhouse), Shopping & F***ing (No 1 tour), Cracked (Hampstead Theatre), After The Rain (Gate Theatre). On TV he played Renoir in the BBC drama The Impressionists and had guest roles as Nino in Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and Giles in Dead Babies.

Cast: 

Nancy Crane (Chimerica, Almedia Theatre & West End; Vieux Carre, King’s Head; The Children’s Hour, West End; Design For Living, Old Vic; Love The Sinner, National Theatre; The Sweetest Swing In Baseball and The Strip, both Royal Court; Angels In America, National Theatre).

Ben Cura (Viva Forever, West End; La Forza Del Destino, Opera de Marseilles. Film credits include: Creditors, Dream On, The Devil’s Violinist, Comes A Bright Day and Trance).

Martin Delaney who plays Luke: (The Ministry Of Pleasure, Latchmere Theatre; Local Boy, Hampstead Theatre; Oliver!, West End; Peter Pan, Cambridge Theatre. On TV he was young Da Vinci in Da Vinci’s Demons. On film he was in Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow; Flags of our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood; and he had the lead the Judas Ghost. He will be seen next as Tony in Amar, Akbar & Tony, a film produced by Victoria Wood.

Mitchell Mullen (A Bunch of Amateurs, Watermill; Superior Donuts, and The Hairy Ape, both Southwark Playhouse; The Shawshank Redemption, West End; August: Osage County, National Theatre; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Apollo Theatre/US national tour).

Sirine Saba (Holy Warriors, Antony & Cleopatra, The Globe; The Keepers Of Infinite Space, Park Theatre; The Winter’s Tale, Regent’s Park; Beauty And The Beast and Pericles, both RSC; Scorched, Old Vic Tunnels; Nation, National Theatre).

Geoffrey Nauffts (Writer) spent the first half of his career working as an actor both on and off Broadway, regionally, and extensively in film and television. He went on to direct short plays by Kenneth Lonergan, Frank Pugliese, David Marshall Grant, Theresa Rebeck and Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as the critically acclaimed production of Steven Belber’s Tape in New York, Los Angeles and London. As a writer, his credits include: Baby Steps, an award-winning short film starring Kathy Bates; Jenifer, a CBS movie of the week; two seasons on ABC’s Brothers and Sisters; the Golden Globe nominated miniseries, Political Animals; and he’s currently writing for Nashville on ABC. His play Next Fall received the Outer Circle Critics’ John Gasner Award in 2010 for Best New American Play, and was nominated for a Drama League, Outer Circle Critics, Drama Desk, and Tony Award for best play. He is the former artistic director of Naked Angels, the acclaimed off-Broadway theatre company, where he’s been a proud member for over 25 years.

Luke Sheppard (Director) recently directed the European premiere of In The Heights (Southwark Playhouse) and he continues as Associate Director for Matilda in the West End and on Broadway, having been with the RSC production since Stradford-Upon-Avon. Future projects include the new musical adaptation of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 for Leicester Curve.

David Woodhead (Designer) returns to Southwark Playhouse where he was named Best Costume Designer at the 2014 Off West End Theatre Awards and was nominated for Best Set & Costume Design at the 2014 awards for Awards for Titanic.

Howard Hudson (Lighting Designer) received the 2011, 2012 & 2014 Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design. His previous showscat Southwark Playhoise include In the Heights, Three Sisters, Titanic, Victor Victoria, Mack & Mabel, Parade, The Illusion, Billy Budd, Four Nights in Knaresborough.

Sound Designer David Gregory

Casting Director Sophie Parrott

James Quaife Productions (Producer)

James Quaife is an independent theatre producer and general manager working in the West End and Off-West-End. Productions include: Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire starring Imelda Staunton (Noel Coward Theatre); Barking In Essex by Clive Exton starring Lee Evans, Sheila Hancock and Keeley Hawes (Wyndham’s Theatre Evening Standard Theatre Awards nomination for Best Night Out); Happy Never After by Hannah Rodger (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013, Pleasance Courtyard), Step 9 (of 12) by Rob Hayes starring Blake Harrison (Trafalgar Studios); the world premiere of Happy Never After by Hannah Rodger and People Like Us by Jake Brunger (Pleasance Theatre, London) and the London premiere of Precious Little Talent by Ella Hickson starring Olivia Hallinan (Trafalgar Studios – 2011 London Theatre Award for Best New Play). In 2013 James was awarded a Stage One Start Up Fund for the West End production Barking In Essex and in 2011 he was awarded a Stage One Producer’s Bursary for his production of Step 9 (of 12).

David Adkin Limited (Co-Producer)

David Adkin Limited is a London based theatrical production and management company.

Current/recent projects include: Arcadia (Stowe); Sweeney Todd (Twickenham); Little Shop of Horrors (Stowe); Our Friends, The Enemy (UK Tour 2014) and That Face (Landor). Previous Producing Credits include: Up4aMeet? starring X Factor’s Lloyd Daniels (UK Tour); The UK premiere of The Agony & The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (Waterloo East), Our House The Musical – 10th Anniversary Concert starring Suggs, Tameka Empson, Alistair McGowan and Wendi Peters, directed by Matthew Warchus (Savoy Theatre); Up4aMeet? starring Dancing on Ice’s Matt Evers (Waterloo East); Holmes & Watson: The Farewell Tour (Courtyard Theatre, London & Edinburgh Fringe 2012) and searchforatwitterstarLIVE featuring performances from Jon Boydon, Louise Dearman and Kerry Ellis (Lyric Theatre). David Adkin is also the Producer/General Manager for the Arts at Stowe programme at Stowe School.

James Quaife Productions and David Adkin Ltd present the UK première of Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts

Southwark Playhouse

Box Office: 020 7407 0234

http://www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk

Twitter: @NextFallLND / #NextFall

24th September to 25th October 2014

Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 8.00pm

Saturday matinees at 3.30pm

Previews 24 – 27 Sept: £10.00

Tickets: £18.00 – £16.00