But no matter: he got his fellow impresarios from that event to fax letters about his promotional skills to Dube's handlers, and Dube signed on.
Unlike the first two revivals, the new version of Oliver! will be produced by Lloyd Webber's fellow theatrical impresario, Cameron Mackintosh.
Mackintosh is also buying the far smaller Ambassadors theatre, both from fellow West End impresario Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen, in an undisclosed deal that takes his theatre portfolio to nine.
Composed in the 1760s (definitely before 1769), it was almost certainly on the programmes of the concerts that Bach and fellow composer and impresario Carl Friedrich Abel put on in their series of prophetic and fashionable concerts at Carlisle House in London's Soho, then St James, and finally at the bespoke concert room they had built at Hanover Square.
I imagined him as a secret sentimentalist parading as a cranky impresario, quite different from the cheery fellow always quoted in the obligatory feature stories about the tree and where it came from.
It took him two years to cadge the money and press-gang fellow actors; they rehearsed at Salt's, encouraged by the impresario who had saved it from demolition, Jonathan Silver, and were lent office space at Dean Clough by another self-made entrepeneur, Ernest Hall.
Ever the impresario, Gregory Qaiyum suggested they do a rap performance for their fellow diners.
For a convicted sex offender, albeit one who has steadfastly protested his innocence, pop impresario Jonathan King, who got seven years, was surprisingly popular among his fellow prisoners.
Dr. Stine became an impresario of this event — it has raised close to $250,000 — because a friend and fellow psychiatrist, David Eger, suffers from the tremors and rigidities of Parkinson's.
