Gillian Lynne

b. 20 Feb 1926, Bromley, Kent, Britain. An internationally acclaimed movie director and choreographer with over 40 London and Broadway displays to her credit. Gillian Lynne was originally a dancer and produced her stage debut using the Sadlers Wells Ballet in 1944, staying with the business for seven years, where time she performed several leading jobs. Through the 50s she danced often on the London Palladium, and performed Claudine in Can-Can on the Coliseum. In 1960 she made an appearance in John Cranko’s New Cranks on the Lyric, Hammersmith, and choreographed her initial ballet, Owl AS WELL AS THE Pussycat, for the Traditional western Theatre Ballet. After that Lynne spent some time working being a choreographer and/or movie director on musical productions like the Roar FROM THE Greasepaint – The Smell FROM THE Group, The Match Women, Pickwick, How Today Dow Jones, Tonight At Eight, Songbook: A Tribute To Mooney Shapiro, Tomfoolery, A LONG TIME AGO, My Fair Female, Cabaret, Felines, as well as the Phantom FROM THE Opera. Lynne’s focus on Felines gained her an Laurence Olivier Prize – among four she has – as well as the Austrian Federal government’s Purchase Of Merit to get a production from the show that was shown in Vienna and eventually performed in East Berlin and Moscow. Her Paris creation won the exclusive Moliére Award. She’s also worked thoroughly for the Royal Shakespeare Organization, the Royal Opera Home, Covent Backyard, and on a lot more than 10 movies including HALF OF A Sixpence, Guy Of La Mancha, and Yentl. Her tv credits are the Muppet Display series, her personal creation, The Fool AROUND THE Hill, that was predicated on the Beatles’ music, and her BAFTA award-winning ballet A STRAIGHTFORWARD Guy. In the first 90s, aswell as supervising and focusing on a great many other productions world-wide, Lynne re-staged and choreographed the 1993 UK revival of Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel’s musical, Pickwick, starring Harry Secombe and Roy Castle, and devised her 1st full-length ballet, The Brontës, which experienced its globe premiere in Leeds early in 1995. 2 yrs later, some workshop productions of ‘a modern musical fable’, Anyone Who Experienced A Center, celebrating the functions of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, predicated on a concept by Lynne and Kenny Solms and aimed and choreographed by Lynne, had been offered at New York’s Roundabout Theater. Also in 1997, Lynne was made a CBE for Solutions To Dance. She was wedded to acting professional/maker Peter Property for 17 years before they separated in 1997.