Gillian Lynne as Claudine in the 1954 production of Can Can at the Coliseum Theatre, London.

Gillian Lynne (February 20, 1926 in Bromley, Kent, England) is a British dancer, actor, theatre director and choreographer. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Bromley is the principal town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. ... This article is about the county in England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... A contemporary dancer rehearsing in a dance studio Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... Choreography (also known as dance composition) is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ...

Lynne was a precocious dance talent from an early age, teaming with her childhood friend Beryl Grey while still at school and dancing to blot out the tragedy of the violent death (in a car crash) of her mother when Gillian was just 12 years old. ^[1] Whilst dancing for Molly Lake’s Company at the People's Palace she was spotted by Dame Ninette de Valois and asked to join Sadler's Wells Ballet during World War II. With the opening of the Royal Opera House after the War she received her first solo in Sleeping Beauty. The Peoples Palace and Winter Gardens in Glasgow, Scotland are a museum and glasshouse situated near Glasgow Green, and were opened on 22 January 1898 by the Earl of Rosebery. ... At age 16 Dame Ninette de Valois (June 6, 1898 - March 8, 2001) was the Irish founder of Londons renowned Royal Ballet. ... The present Sadlers Wells Theatre. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House is a performing arts venue in London. ... Sir Edward Burne-Jones painted The Sleeping Beauty. ...

She went on to become an admired dramatic ballerina in the re-named Royal Ballet, renowned for her Black Queen in de Valois’s Checkmate, Queen of the Wilis in Giselle and in roles created for her by Frederick Ashton and Robert Helpman. Leaving the Royal Ballet in 1951 she was an instant success at the London Palladium as the star dancer and subsequently in the West End in such roles as Claudine in Can Can at the Coliseum Theatre and on film as Mariane in The Master of Ballantrae, in which she was cast opposite Errol Flynn and directed by William Keighley. The Royal Ballet, which is based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, is the leading ballet company in the United Kingdom. ... Checkmate (Failure and checkmate) is music for ballet written by the British composer Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) in 1936-1937 on a choreography of Ninette de Valois. ... Giselle, danced to familiar music by the French ballet and opera composer Adolphe Adam, and choreographed by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, is a Romantic-era ballet first danced in Paris in 1841. ... Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (September 17, 1904 - October 18, 1988) began his career as a dancer but is largely remembered as a choreographer. ... Sir Robert Murray Helpmann (April 9, 1909 – September 28, 1986) was an Australian dancer, actor, director and choreographer, Born Robert Murray Helpman he added the extra n to avoid there being 13 letters in his name. ... The London Palladium in 2004 The London Palladium is one of the most famous of Londons West End theatres. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... A 1895 poster The Can-can (also spelt Cancan, Can Can) is regarded today primarily as a music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, harking back to the fashions of the 1890s. ... The London Coliseum The Coliseum Theatre is one of Londons largest and best equipped theatres, opening in 1904. ... The Master of Ballantrae is a book by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson,who attended Edinburgh University, focusing upon the conflict of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. ... Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959) was an Australian film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle. ...

In her career as a choreographer and director, she has worked on many productions including those from the Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and English National Opera as well as many West End and Broadway shows. She is perhaps best known for her work on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals Cats and The Phantom of the Opera and more recently her 2002 adaptation of the Sherman Brothers' musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" brought Lynne back to the London Palladium after 50 years. She has won numerous awards for her work, and was awarded a CBE in 1997. The Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House is a performing arts venue in London. ... Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. ... The London Coliseum, home of the English National Opera English National Opera (ENO), located at the Coliseum Theatre on St. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... January 18, 1988 issue of Time Magazine featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre and the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. ... Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possums Book of Practical Cats and other poems by T. S. Eliot. ... The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with a book by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe, lyrics by Charles Hart, and music by Lloyd Webber. ... Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman at the London Palladium in 2002 during the premiere of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Stage Musical. ... Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964). ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority...

Gillian married Peter Land in 1980. Along with their other interests her production company Lean Two Productions continues to produce television and stage productions. Peter Land (July 9, 1953) is a New Zealand actor and singer born in Taihape who achieved notable stage success after moving to England in 1977. ...

Stage Credits

• England Our England - 1960/61 - Stager
• Collages - 1963 - Conceived/Director/Choreographer/Performer
• Round Leicester Square - 1963 - Director
• The Roar of the Greasepaint-the Smell of the Crowd - 1965 - Choreographer
• Pickwick - 1965 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• The Match Girls - 1966 - Director/Choreographer
• How Now Dow Jones - 1967 - Choreographer
• Bluebeard - 1969 - Director/Choreographer
• Phil The Fluter - 1969 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Love On The Dole - 1970 - Director/Choreographer
• Tonight At 8.30 - 1970/71 - Director
• The Ambassador - 1971 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Lillywhite Lies - 1971 - Director
• Liberty Ranch - 1972 - Director/Choreographer
• Once Upon A Time - 1972 - Director/Choreographer
• The Card - 1973 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Hans Christian Anderson - 1975 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• A Comedy Of Errors - 1976 - Musical Stager
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1977 - Co-Director
• As You Like It - Musical Stager - 1977 - Musical Stager
• The Way Of The World - 1978 - Choreographer
• My Fair Lady - 1978 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Thuis Best - 1978 - Director/Choreographer
• Once In A Lifetime - 1979 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Songbook - 1979 - Musical Stager
• Jeeves Takes Charge - 1980 - Director
• Tomfoolery - 1980 - Director/Choreographer
• To Those Born Later - 1981 - Director
• Cats - 1981 - Associate Director/Choreographer
• La Ronde - 1982 - Additional Director
• Alone Plus One - 1982 - Director/Performer
• The Rehearsal - 1983 - Director
• The Phantom Of The Opera - 1986 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Cabaret - 1986 - Director/Choreographer
• Aspects Of Love - 1990 - Choreographer
• Dance For Life Gala - 1991 - Director/Producer
• Valentine's Day - 1991 - Director/Choreographer
• Pickwick - 1993 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• That's What Friends Are For! - 1996 - Director
• Avow - 1996 - Director
• What The World Needs Now - 1998 - Director/Choreographer
• Gigi - 1999 - Director/Choreographer
• Richard Whittington - 1999 - Director/Choreographer
• The Secret Garden - 2000 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 2005 - Musical Stager/Choreographer

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Film Credits

• Wonderful Life - 1963/64 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Every Day's A Holiday - 1964 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Three Hats For Lisa - 1964 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Half A Sixpence - 1966/67 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Mister Ten Per Cent - 1967 - Choreographer
• 200 Motels - 1971 - Musical Stager
• Mr Love - 1972 - Stager/Choreographer
• Man Of La Mancha - 1972 - Musical & Fight Stager
• The Old Curiosity Shop - 1974 - Musical Stager
• Yentl - 1982 - Musical Stager
• Under Milk Wood - 1985 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• European Vacation - 1985 - Musical Stager/Choreographer
• Cats - 1997 - Musical Stager/Choreographer

Wonderful Life is a book on evolution by Stephen Jay Gould. ... Half a Sixpence is a musical comedy, written as a vehicle for British pop star Tommy Steele. ... 200 Motels is a 1971 movie featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, produced at Pinewood Studios, England. ... Man of La Mancha is a 1965 Broadway musical in one act which tells the story of the classic novel Don Quixote as a play within a play, performed by Miguel de Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. ... The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. ... Barbara Streisand on the soundtrack cover for the movie Yentl. ... Under Milk Wood was originally a radio play and later a stage play by Dylan Thomas. ... National Lampoons European Vacation is a 1985 comedy film, second in the Vacation series, directed by Amy Heckerling and starring Chevy Chase and Beverly DAngelo. ... Cats may refer to: Felines, members of the animal family Felidae The domesticated animal, cat The musical, yeah right, I bet that this was really dumb. ...

Footnotes

1. ^ Recounted by Dame Beryl Grey in The Independent March 10, 2002

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External links

• Biography on official site
• Gillian Lynne on the IMDB