20 Questions with…

Dame Gillian Lynne (deceased) - 20 Questions


Listen Later

Dame Gillian Lynne (20 February 1926 – 1 July 2018) was an English ballerina, dancer, choeographer, actress, and theatre & television director, noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows on Broadway - "Cats" and "The Phantom of The Opera". At age 87, she was made a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of The British Empire in the 2014 New Years Honours List. The New London Theatre, where the original production of "Cats" played, was officially renamed the Gillian Lynne Theatre in 2018. This made Lynne the first non-royal woman to have a West End theatre named after her.


Ex-dancer and now Boom Light radio presenter, Susie Sharp, visited Dame Gillian in her London home, a few years before she died.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/20-questions-with.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

20 Questions with…By Ultimate Sound and Vision


More shows like 20 Questions with…

View all
The Book Club by The Spectator

The Book Club

83 Listeners