Femme Fatale
By (Author) Phil Willmott
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
12th December 2004
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Paperback
88
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
It's the wedding day of the mysterious beauty the press have dubbed 'The Black Widow', but will her latest millionaire groom survive longer than her previous five rich and elderly husbands A tough talking editor dispatches his handsome rookie reporter to find out. But is he wise to visit the creepy abandoned laboratory in a thunderstorm, as midnight strikes... and to take along a date This hilarious, fast-moving tribute to Hollywood and the Silver Screen is packed with catchy songs guaranteed to get your feet tapping. Created by the same team behind the Dick Barton series, with music by Stefan Bednarczyk, Femme Fatale opened at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon in 2004.
Phil Willmott is a multi-award winning director, artistic director, playwright, composer, librettist, teacher, dramaturg, arts journalist. and occasional actor. He has worked in theatres across the world on everything from classical drama, musicals and family shows to cabaret and cutting edge new writing. The UKs most commissioned musical theatre writer, he is currently under contract to write new musicals for Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Playhouse and a new play about the Tutankhamen legacy. He is Artistic Director of his own multi-award winning theatre company The Steam Industry (incorporating The Finborough Theatre and the West Ends open-air "Scoop" amphitheatre on Londons South Bank) and is a recipient of a TMA Award for outstanding direction of a musical, a Peter Brook Award for his out door classical productions and family shows, whatsonstage award nominations for best regional and Off West End productions, a broadwayworld nomination for Best Musical in the UK, a Brooks Atkinson/Royal Court award in New York for Playwriting and four Spirit of Broadway awards. www.philwillmott.co.uk