The Idea of You
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Film / 2017
National Theatre Live: Follies
New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.
The story
New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.
Cast
Imelda StauntonSally Durant Plummer
Peter ForbesBuddy Plummer
Janie DeePhyllis Rogers Stone
Philip QuastBenjamin Stone
Tracie BennettCarlotta Campion
Gary RaymondDimitri Weismann
Jordan ShawKevin
Fred HaigYoung Buddy
Josephine BarstowHeidi Schiller
Bruce GrahamRoscoe
Dawn HopeStella Deems
Adrian GroveSam Deems
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Di BotcherHattie Walker
Geraldine FitzgeraldSolange LaFitte
Zizi StrallenYoung Phyllis
Alex YoungYoung Sally
Adam Rhys-CharlesYoung Ben
Billy BoyleTheodore Whitman
Norma AtallahEmily Whitman
Liz IzenDeedee West
Julie ArmstrongChristine Donovan
Gemma PageSandra Crane
Alison LangerYoung Heidi
Aimee HodnettYoung Hattie
Sarah-Marie MaxwellYoung Solange
Kate ParrYoung Sandra
Christine TuckerYoung Deedee
Leisha MollyneauxYoung Stella
Emily LanghamYoung Carlotta
Anouska EatonYoung Emily
Barnaby ThompsonYoung Theodore
Emily GoodenoughYoung Christine
Edwin RayCameraman
Ian McLarnonTV Interviewer
Liz EwingWeismann's PA
Jeremy BattEnsemble
Michael VinsenEnsemble
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