After playing Fredrik Egerman in Trevor Nunn’s hit London revival of A Little Night Music, Alexander Hanson transferred to Broadway with the show, romancing the Desirees of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Bernadette Peters. Scarcely had Hanson set foot back in London before he was in rehearsals to play Sir Robert Chiltern in a new West End revival of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, which begins performances on November 4 at the Vaudeville. It’s a welcome homecoming for Hanson, especially because he’ll be sharing the stage for the first time with his real-life wife, Samantha Bond, as the villainous Mrs. Cheveley. The actor paused one recent lunchtime for a friendly chat with Broadway.com about his return to London, the New York high life and what his famous Broadway leading ladies are really like.
Welcome back to London! Does it feel as if you’ve never been away?
New York feels like ages ago now. We’re deep in Ideal Husband rehearsals way up at the top of the Old Vic, where we’ve just finished a run-through of Act One. I did my last [Night Music] show in New York at a Sunday matinee, flew back to ...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Jumping from Night Music to London's An Ideal Husband, Alexander Hanson Dishes on Bernadette, Elaine, Catherine & Angela
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