ADRIAN SLADE WRITES: Never, not even at its original launch in 1954, has a production of my brother Julian Slade’s ‘Salad Days’ been welcomed with seven 4 **** reviews within 24 hours! That has been the reward for Bryan Hodgson’s wonderfully inventive new production at the Union Theatre Southwardk....
A CELEBRATORY BRISTOL SHOW
A Fundraising Event to be staged by the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, supported by the Spielman Trust and the Julian Slade Award for Musical Talent. Join us as the School closes its 70th birthday year activities with an evening of musical entertainment celebrating the work of Julian Slade, presented by...
‘Best Newcomer’: A Stand-Up Success
A very different form of Slade family talent was recently on show at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London when ‘Two Plus Ones’ a musical comedy trio was on stage competing in the final of the WEGOTTICKETS Musical Comedy Awards. Working with his two other Cambridge and Edinburgh Festival...
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...