Casting announced for Backbeat stage show
The cast for the stage adaptation of the Beatles film Backbeat has been announced.
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Casting begins for Backbeat: The Musical
Backbeat, the biopic of Stuart Sutcliffe’s Hamburg relationship with Astrid Kirchherr, is to be turned into a musical.
Première of the In His Own Write stage play
The National Theatre’s stage version of John Lennon’s book In His Own Write, directed by Victor Spinetti, had its début
Brian Epstein takes over the Saville Theatre, London
On this day The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein took over the lease on the Saville Theatre on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue.