Brickhill-Burke Company
The Brickhill-Burke Company was a South African theatre company founded an run by Joan Brickhill and Louis Burke
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The Company
Founded by Joan Brickhill and Louis Burke, to produce large-scale musicals and extravaganzas at venues such as His Majesty's Theatre and Sun City.
Productions
They took over the lease of His Majesty's Theatre forming a company with themselves as directors together with Graham English. They reopened the theatre with the black musical Meropa featuring the Phoenix Players on the 3 December 1974. This production was later presented as a command performance at the London Palladium.
To celebrate His Majesty's Theatre's 30th birthday, they staged Follies Fantastique, starring Joan Brickhill, Alvon Collison and Beni Mason on 30 November 1976. Brickhill-Burke were responsible for the sets and costumes and the show ran until April 1977.
Other productions include:
1970: The Minstrel Scandals
1974: The Minstrel Follies
1974: Meropa
1975: The Tempest
1975: Gypsy
1976: Henry IV, Part 1
1976: The Sound of Music (with PACT)
1976: Follies Fantastique
1977: Grease
1977: Winnie the Pooh
1979: The Norman Conquests
1979: Annie
1980: They're Playing Our Song
1980: Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1980: Hello Dolly!
1981: Bedazzled
1982: I Love my Wife
1982: Mame
1983: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Sources
Mona de Beer 1995. Revised ed. Who Did What in South Africa. Johannesburg: Ad Donker.
SACD 1973;
SACD 1975/76
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