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Alan Brodie: Represents Julian’s Works
ALAN BRODIE REPRESENTS THE JULIAN SLADE LITERARY ESTATE Making their first change of theatrical agency for ten years Julian Slade’s two surviving brothers Christopher and Adrian, the executors of his Literary Estate, are delighted that Alan Brodie has agreed to become their theatrical representative. Alan Brodie Representation is one of...
What links ‘Winnie The Pooh’ with ‘Mad Men’?
John Hamm, star of ‘Mad Men‘, the hit American TV series about Madison Avenue and a ’60s New York advertising agency, was born in 1971. In that same year the first stage version of ‘Winnie The Pooh‘ opened as a Christmas show for children at the Phoenix Theatre in...
Julian ‘Returns to Bristol’
In commemoration of Julian Slade, his musical works and his long association with the Theatre Royal in the ‘50s, 60s and ‘70s, Bristol Old Vic and Julian’s family have jointly installed a plaque in an excellent position next to the box office in the foyer of the theatre. The...
New Plaque in Julian’s home village
The Slade family were brought up in the Gloucestershire village of Painswick where, as a teenager, Julian excelled as an amateur actor with The Painswick Players. As far as we know he is also the only Painswick Player to have written a successful West End musical. Hence their decision...
Sir Cameron Mackintosh
‘My Inspiration’ – Sir Cameron Mackintosh (‘Times2 -10.3.09) As the Victoria & Albert Museum opened its new Theatre and Performance galleries in March Nancy Durrant of the Times asked leading figures in show business to choose a favourite exhibit and what it meant to them. Among them Sir Cameron...