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Acclaimed West End theatre and film producer Bill Kenwright, has died at the age of 78 - I suppose that he was partly responsible for my revised interest in theatre musicals in the past decade when I saw Dreamboats and Miniskirts at the Congress Theatre in Eastbourne in 2014 (in which my thread on watching musicals at the theatre gives more details). He was also chairman of Everton football club and had made occasional appearances as Gordon Clegg (Betty "Hotpot" Turpin/Williams' son) in Coronation Street, and made an appearance in 1995 at his screen mother's wedding to Billy Williams who she met again for the first time in 50 years when he visited the Rovers Return during the VE Day anniversary in May 1995, and also giving Betty a storyline for the first time in years apart from just serving pints and hotpots.
I have quite liked a lot of Kenwright's stuff as it made great theatre entertainment and a lot of it really stood quite well in the theatre; the productions such as Dreamboats were not as massive like Grease or Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, but ticket sales proved that he certainly knew what the punters wanted. The fact that he worked behind the scenes proved that what he was crafted to do was really appreciated.
I have quite liked a lot of Kenwright's stuff as it made great theatre entertainment and a lot of it really stood quite well in the theatre; the productions such as Dreamboats were not as massive like Grease or Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, but ticket sales proved that he certainly knew what the punters wanted. The fact that he worked behind the scenes proved that what he was crafted to do was really appreciated.
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