Broadway’s leading lady has admitted that she may have to temper her expectations of standing ovations as she arrives in Britain to star in the musical of the summer.
Stephanie J Block said that curtain calls in American theatres were a “full body sport”. She told of her shock at attending a London theatre and being the only one who immediately jumped out of her seat, then thinking: “Why isn’t anybody else doing that?”
Block is due to star alongside Adrian Dunbar — previously seen as Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty — in a big-budget revival of Cole Porter’s musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate directed by the acclaimed American director Bartlett Sher at the Barbican Theatre. Sher was recently in London to direct
