![]() ![]() Within hours, Buddy Holly & the Crickets start to churn out hits from the recording studio built in Norman's backyard, among them "That'll Be The Day", which will rocket up the charts to number one in a matter of weeks. ![]() After a difficult start at Decca Records in Nashville, they sign a contract with up-and-coming, innovative record producer Norman Petty who is based in Clovis, New Mexico. With the support of local Lubbock Texas radio DJ, Hipockets Duncan, Buddy and his two friends form a Country & Western band – Buddy Holly & the Crickets – and begin to carve out a career in music. The action takes place in Lubbock, Texas Clovis, New Mexico New York City and Clear Lake, Iowa between January 1956 and February 1959. Performance at the White House for President Bush Act I In Germany, the Stage Theatre in Hamburg was built on land next to the river Elbe specifically for Buddy, where the show played for seven years between 19. The second Australian tour in 2009 ran for 39 weeks. Buddy has had two major tours in Australia, the 1st tour played Sydney's Theatre Royal for 36 weeks before continuing throughout Australia for a further 60 weeks. Over 25 million people have seen the show worldwide. International and touring productions īuddy has been in more than 17 countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, UK and USA. The show has toured extensively throughout the US, starting with a 53-week tour in November 1991, and with the most recent 5th tour finishing in March 2016. Jill Hennessy played a number of roles, including Holly's wife Maria Elena. Broadway production/US national tours Īfter a Toronto try-out and 15 previews, the Broadway production, also starring Hipp, opened on November 4, 1990, at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for 225 performances. Buddy has continued to tour frequently in the UK. ![]() This was the first West End production to tour the UK while still playing in the West End it set a new record of 243 weeks of continuous touring, or 4 years 35 weeks on the road. UK national tours ĭuring the second year of the original production's long run, a UK national tour of Buddy began in June 1991 at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. The 50th Anniversary Tour played concurrently across the UK and starred Oliver Seymour-Marsh and Glen Joseph as Buddy, with Chris Redmond and Dan Graham as the Crickets. Richardson (The Big Bopper) by actor Lee Ormsby. Ritchie Valens was played by Puerto Rican actor Miguel Angel, and J.P. The role of Buddy Holly was equally shared by Dean Elliott and Matthew Wycliffe, who played the role in the 2007 UK touring company. This revival ensured that the 50th Anniversary of Holly's death was celebrated on 3 February with a special performance incorporating several new numbers for that one night. ![]() In 2007, Janes brought the show back to the West End at the Duchess Theatre, where it played for a further 634 performances making it one of the longest-running musicals in London history. Buddy transferred to the Novello Theatre, completing a total of 12 and a half years and 5,140 performances at the two theatres. With audiences on their feet every night, structural engineers were called to the theatre to make sure the dress circle could take the weight as the structure bounced with the audience as they danced. West End productions īuddy transferred to the Victoria Palace Theatre and opened on 12 October 1989. But regardless of the set crashes and technical mishaps, the audience would not let the cast leave the stage, demanding encore after encore until the cast had run out of songs to play. The first shows were beset by technical problems as 26 actor/musicians played and acted their way through two and a half hours of drama and hi-octane rock 'n' roll concert. Janes worked with originating director Rob Bettinson, and originating musical director Paul Jury, to present the show for a three/week pre-London engagement in August 1989 at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, with Paul Hipp as Buddy Holly. A year later, supported by Paul McCartney, who owned the copyright to Buddy Holly's music, the show had a try out at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, before its transfer to London's Victoria Palace. 2.5 International and touring productionsĪ late-night fan-based conversation in a bar of the Montcalm Hotel in London's West End in 1988, between the theatrical agent Laurie Mansfield, film producer Greg Smith and writer/producer Janes, about rock and roll musician Buddy Holly, led Janes to develop and write Buddy.2.4 Broadway production/US national tours. ![]()
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