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Joined November 2016
We're thrilled to share that Jonathan Bailey will play the title role in Richard II, directed by Nicholas Hytner, from 10 February 2025👑. On sale to Priority Members now.Advance Members – Tue 25 June.General Sale – Wed 26 June. Priority Members book now:
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"Her company was exhilarating – she was even sharper & wittier than her legions of fans imagined her to be" - Nicholas Hytner.It was our privilege to present Dame Maggie Smith’s final stage performances at The Bridge. We send best wishes to her family & all that were close to her
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Well, you asked and @NTLive have answered. SO excited to announce that #BridgeDream will be streamed as part of the #NationalTheatreAtHome series from Thursday 25 June, 7pm, for seven days. *Cue Love On Top*. Maybe this summer isn't looking so bad after all!
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And that's it! Almost 100,000 of you have come and immersed yourselves in our #JuliusCaesar – including over 33,000 who stood in amongst the action in the Pit. Thank you to everyone who enjoyed the show and made it what it was. And how fitting to wrap on #ShakespeareSunday!
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Introducing the talented cast joining Jonathan Bailey in Shakespeare’s subtle, tragic and beautiful play Richard II👑. See them at The Bridge from 10 February 2025. Book now:
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As we've mentioned (a lot) over the past few months we've been missing our audiences. Today we are delighted to announce a repertoire of twelve one-person plays at the Bridge during September and October, using the theatre's flexibility to provide 250 socially distanced seats.
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Today we celebrate the end of an incredible summer. Thank you to all of our audiences who have literally been a part of #BridgeDream, and congratulations to our fantastic cast, crew and front of house teams. What a dream it's been.
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Today we are thrilled to announce that filming has begun on new productions of Alan Bennett’s critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning #TalkingHeads to air in the coming months on BBC One.
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Thank you to everyone who's put Love On Top and joined us in reliving #BridgeDream. You'd be Bonkers to miss it, so pop it on Only If For A Night. You might just find it's gonna be a bright (bright) bright, sunshiny day. You have until about 4pm tomorrow to watch 💗🌙💕🌈✨
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We're delighted to be joined by so many friends to celebrate our inaugural play, #YoungMarx, at our new home. More:
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Last night, The Bridge welcomed its first ever audience to test out what we've got. Toilets flushed, madeleines eaten, seats sat in. Smile!
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What a night for #ANumber! Congratulations to the whole company. 🧬. 📸 @CraigSugden . #ColinMorgan #CarylChurchill @All_Allam
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Let us present to you our Titania, Puck, Oberon and Bottom. This summer follow Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), David Moorst (Allelujah!), Oliver Chris (Green Wing) and Hammed Animashaun (Barber Shop Chronicles) into the forest for #AMidsummerNightsDream.
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We're 6 years old today🎉. Thank you for our 6 incredible years of Bridge Theatre. We are so grateful to everyone who's been involved in our productions, and every single audience member who has passed through our doors. We wouldn't be here without you ❤️. 📸 Philip Vile
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It's always a pleasure to be joined by so many friends and supporters as we celebrate the opening of a brand new piece of British playwriting. Alan Bennett's #Allelujah! is open!
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One year ago we celebrated the official opening of A Midsummer Night's Dream. We couldn't help but notice that many of you (including us) have been longing to relive it ever since. (keep reading, this thread is gonna change your summer)🌺. #BridgeDream.
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You and your house mates huddled round your laptop at 6.58pm on 25 June, waiting for #BridgeDream to start. @NTLive
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Moment of appreciation for @NationalTheatre for their FAB At Home series. Well done and THANK YOU ❤️ .
🎞️ 15 million views.🏘️ 9 million households.🌍 173 countries.🎉 16 weeks. That's it! We can't quite believe it's over. Thank you for joining us during #NationalTheatreAtHome. We're so grateful to the artists, theatres and companies who helped us share these plays for free.
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As we edge closer to the opening of Caryl Churchill's A Number (*cough* 14 February) we are very excited to share a glimpse inside the rehearsal room with Roger Allam, Colin Morgan and Director Polly Findlay. Check out more on our website! 🧬. 📸 Johan Persson
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Any excuse to remind you: @DavidMoorst learnt aerial skills specially for this show. He started training months before rehearsals began #BridgeDream
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Our last production with a full house! Miraculously we managed to perform the full run before having to close. What a pleasure it was for full audiences to see Caryl Churchill's A Number. 📸 Johan Persson.Designer: Lizzie Clachan.Lighting Designer: Peter Mumford
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Our talented #JuliusCaesar cast enjoyed a hard-earned moment to celebrate with friends and family after the immersive action of opening night last night.
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"Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius?" Ben Whishaw as Brutus. Would you join Cassius in plotting against Caesar? #JuliusCaesar #DoThis
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We're so happy to triple confirm, following the government's announcement today putting London into Tier 2, we will be reopening next week with performances of A Christmas Carol from 3 December!!❄️.
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Today we say farewell to Daniel Mays as he has his last performance as good old reliable Nathan Detroit, until he returns to the role on 16 October 2023🎲. 📸 Matt Crockett
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"Hear me for my cause." .Brutus, played by Ben Whishaw, defends his actions against Caesar. Whether or not you believe him is up to you. #JuliusCaesar @NTLive
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We are delighted to announce the full cast for Nicholas Hytner’s promenade production of JULIUS CAESAR, from 20 Jan for 12 weeks only!
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"As Caesar loved me, I weep for him. As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it. As he was valiant, I honour him. But, as he was ambitious, I slew him." Brutus. #IdesOfMarch
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Look what’s happening all over! Sign up to our mailing list and stay tuned to find out more about the 2023 London Cast Recording of Guys & Dolls💃 🎶 🎲
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"The Sitzprobe is when the cast meet the band for the first time and it's an incredibly exciting moment because everyone learns how their part fits together" - Tom Brady, Music Supervisor and Arranger on Guys & Dolls 🎲💃🎶. #GuysAndDolls #BridgeTheatre #Sitzprobe
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🌺 "Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream." 🌺 PSA: You are not dreaming, #BridgeDream IS being streamed by @NTlive on 25 June, 7pm. Best to clear the calendar for the full week, just in case, and prepare for a lot of Dreamy content from us.
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What a Dream! Massive congratulations to @lovegendoline on her #Emmy nomination for #GameofThrones. Very much deserved.
I CANT BELIEVE IT!!!!!!????!?!!?!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #EmmyAwards #CANITTRULYBEREAL?????????? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯♥️ @ London, United Kingdom
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Caesar shall go forth for the last time at The Bridge this afternoon. What was your favourite #JuliusCaesar moment? #DoThis
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We sent a photographer into our new production of #JuliusCaesar to give you a first look at the immersive action. Now playing at The Bridge:
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Guys & Dolls now playing until 24 February 2024! Public booking opens at 10am on Friday 21 April🎲 . Priority Members: Head to our website to book now💃.Advance Members: Booking opens at 10am on Thursday 20 April🎶 . #GuysAndDolls
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Guys & Dolls is this year’s Best Musical Revival at the #WOSAwards🥂. A huge thank you and congratulations to every single person that made this production possible💃 . #WOSawards #GuysAndDolls
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Tomorrow marks the grand finale for our current cast of Guys & Dolls!. A huge congratulations to them for lighting up the stage night after night with phenomenal performances over the past year💃. And all the best for their last (double-show) day in Runyonland🎲. 📸 Manuel Harlan
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We wanted to take this moment to shout out the people you may or may not have spotted – our incredible stage management team and stage crew! The show wouldn't have been possible without them. Give them a standing ovation from the sofa and check out their names in the credits.
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🌛 Looking for a way to celebrate our second birthday? Silly question, of course you are. Tonight is the @NTLive broadcast of A Midsummer Night's Dream so get yourself down to your local cinema and step into the Dream once again. 🌺 Who's watching?
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Watch the official trailer for our immersive #JuliusCaesar, ahead of the @NTLive broadcast on Thursday 22nd March. Find your nearest screening here:
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Our Brutus, Ben Whishaw, talks to The Observer as performances of #JuliusCaesar begin at The Bridge this weekend.
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Our immersive #JuliusCaesar is still going out in cinemas around the world. Find your nearest @NTLive encore screening here:
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We're into our first full week of A Number, and what better way to start it than with Roger Allam and Colin Morgan discussing what the show is about? 🧬.
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"Tony Blair is somebody that's come up in discussion." Ben Whishaw is weighing up British political leaders in rehearsals for his portrayal of Brutus in Julius Caesar. Watch more on our YouTube channel:
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We'll never get over this view, captured beautifully by Peter Henderson.
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Our Guys & Dolls stars @DanielMays9 @CelindeSchoen and @iamcedricneal stunning at #BigNightOfMusicals. 📸 The National Lottery and Getty
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It's opening night of #JuliusCaesar and our guests are ready to immerse themselves in the action. Photography by @CraigSugden.
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Drum roll please🥁 Introducing our outstanding Guys & Dolls cast 🎲💃🎶. Daniel Mays as Nathan Detroit, Cedric Neal as Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Andrew Richardson as Sky Masterson, Celinde Schoenmaker as Sarah Brown, Marisha Wallace as Miss Adelaide. #GuysAndDolls #BridgeTheatre
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Channelling the powerful energy of Gwendoline Christie as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019) to get us through that midweek slump. Don't forget you can still watch #BridgeDream on @nationaltheatre at home! . 📸 Manuel Harlan
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Thank you to everyone who joined us this year for #GuysAndDolls, our first ever musical at The Bridge! What a year it's been🤩
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A huge throwback to a bustling foyer. Missing our audiences and the excitement of an opening night! Thank you for the ongoing support. 📸 @CraigSugden
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Today was day one of rehearsals for our next production, #JuliusCaesar, and we couldn't be more excited to welcome this stellar cast to The Bridge.
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It's 2018, you're in the pit. A band is playing Eye of the Tiger, Roar, Seven Nation Army. You're singing along, jumping, dancing. You're part of the mob. You're in Rome. 🤩 Discover our Julius Caesar Spotify playlist - perfect pre screening soundtrack! 🎵
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We've never had a Christmas tree at The Bridge before so this year we got 35. and there's no one here to see them! As we closed the trees were offered out to those on their last shift before Christmas, so now there's a bit of The Bridge all over London 🎄
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We join countless theatregoers and colleagues in mourning the extraordinary Helen McCrory, who graced The Bridge in a wonderful poetry reading in 2019. She lit up every stage and every room she walked into and was loved by all that knew her.
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Tonight only!.@marishawallace steps in to reprise the role of Miss Adelaide in Guys & Dolls. Wishing a speedy recovery to @TimmikaMusic
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It's a school reunion at The Bridge for The History Boys! . We've loved having Alan Bennett join the cast in rehearsals for #Allelujah! It's his first new play in five years.
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Presenting your summer at The Bridge. So happy to share these snaps of #AMidsummerNightsDream by Manuel Harlan. Come and join us.
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Guys & Dolls is this year's Best Musical at the @EveningStandard Theatre Awards 2023🎉. A huge congratulations to every single person that made this production possible, we love you 'a bushel and a peck'💃 . #eveningstandardtheatreawards #GuysAndDolls @ESCulture
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From all of us at The Bridge, lots of love, stay well, adieu 🌺💜
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"It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright sunshiny day" BECAUSE today #NationalTheatreAtHome have announced the release of #BridgeDream, available to stream from today! 🌺 🌸 🌷 🌼 🌹 You asked (& asked & asked) and we're so happy @NationalTheatre at Home could provide the goods!
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Us strutting to our living room to claim the TV at 7pm tonight. Who's ready to Dream? 🌺 . @ntlive #NationalTheatreatHome
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In Jan Nicholas Hytner stages Julius Caesar in promenade w/ #BenWhishaw as Brutus & @davemorrissey64 as Mark Antony
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Throwback to behind the scenes after the first full run through of Julius Caesar, documented ever so smoothly by @kittheyounger and @zacharyhart_ 👏👏
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#MaggieSmith is Brunhilde Pomsel. Take a first look at a few of the shots from #AGermanLife. Gearing up for the official opening tomorrow! .📸 @HelenMaybanks
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So excited to share this. Take a look at the #BridgeDream trailer. 🌺 🌸 🌷 . Music by @grantolding.
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We've still got 5 more days of stage diving to go, so make the most of it! A Midsummer Night's Dream will be removed from YouTube at 7pm on Thursday 2 July, so you've gotta start watching before 4pm that day to catch it.
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"Julius Caesar is more relevant than ever." . Audiences at #JuliusCaesar can hear Shakespeare speaking directly to what's going on today. #DoThis
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As part of the Missing Theatre Campaign, thank you @_scene_change_.for wrapping our theatre. We can't wait until we can open our doors again & welcome our wonderful audiences back & we also can't wait for all theatres to be able to do the same. We miss live theatre FACT.
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Tonight is #MaggieSmith's final performance in #AGermanLife. Thank you to everyone who has joined us for this production and we hope those attending tonight enjoy their evening. Next: #AMidsummerNightsDream. 📸 Production shot by Helen Maybanks
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Today is the day we celebrate #ShakespearesBirthday. We were thrilled with your response to #JuliusCaesar this year. What is your favourite Shakespeare play?
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“It’s something I find hard to do, like everyone else, but I would like to be in charge of my own destiny” – Gwendoline Christie, Queen of the Fairies.
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Starring Jodie Comer, Monica Dolan, Martin Freeman, Tamsin Greig, Sarah Lancashire, Lesley Manville, Lucian Msamati, Maxine Peake, Rochenda Sandall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Imelda Staunton and Harriet Walter
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And with that we say goodbye to A Number and its wonderful company. Thank you to everyone who has joined us over the past 4 weeks. 🧬
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If you need us on June 21 we'll be trying to recreate this moment with everyone in our local pub. 🌺. A Midsummer Night's Dream (#BridgeDream), 2019. 📸 Manuel Harlan.Production Design: Bunny Christie.Costume Design: Christina Cunningham
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We cannot believe there is just 1 week remaining of #BridgeDream. If you're looking to join us for the final few performances, don't forget we offer a limited allocation of Day Tickets on the day of each performance.
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Announced today: Andrew Scott and Nikki Amuka-Bird will join Simon Russell-Beale and the Carducci Quartet for an evening of Shostakovich. Monday 5 March. Tickets from £5:
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It's Friday, the temperature has eased AND the government have confirmed that indoor, socially distant performances can resume from tomorrow. We are delighted to receive this news and continue our work to welcome you back from the end of the month.
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Today marks the final performance for Celinde Schoenmaker and Niall Buggy!. A huge congratulations to both of them for lighting up the stage night after night with spectacular performances. Luck be a lady for their last (double-show) day in Runyonland🎲💃🎶. 📸 Manuel Harlan
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#GuysAndDolls has been nominated for 9 #OlivierAwards!. A huge congratulations and thank you to everyone involved in making this very special production possible💃. 📸 Manuel Harlan
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Just some of the many faces of The Rude Mechanicals *cue Bonkers*. Thanks to everyone who shared their portraits with us. #UnlockYourCalendar #IBeseechYou
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“What’s in the daily news? I’ll tell you what’s in the daily news.”. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The Times.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Telegraph.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Evening Standard.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Time Out.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Daily Mail.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Financial Times.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 WhatsOnStage. #GuysAndDolls now playing at the Bridge Theatre
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Throwback Thursday to a dream like no other. No *you're* crying. Sneaky 📸 by our Assistant Stage Manager, David Putman.
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Take a look behind the lens!. Today is your last chance to book tickets to see Jonathan Bailey as Richard II ahead of the general public👑. Become advance member to book now:
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Hooray for @NTLive coming back to cinemas! 🎉 Our production of A Midsummer Night's Dream might just be coming to a screen near you. Find out more:
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10 weeks, 12 stories, nearly 30,000 audience members. The past few months have been a complete joy and we want to thank everyone who has joined us and supported us along the way.
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The Guys & Dolls 2023 London Cast Recording is available now💃 . Listen here:
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Time for a shoutout for our queen choreographer @arlenephillips. @oliverchris and @Hammedhamz dancing on a four-poster bed is nothing short of iconic #BridgeDream
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✨#GuysAndDolls nominated for 5 @EveningStandard Theatre Awards✨ . Best Musical – Guys & Dolls, Bridge Theatre.Milton Shulman Award for Best Director – Nicholas Hytner.Best Design – Bunny Christie.Best Musical Performance – Marisha Wallace.Emerging Talent – Andrew Richardson
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