York Theatre's Fanny Hill Closes Limited Engagement Early
Fanny Hill will end it limited engagement at the York Theatre at Saint Peter's two weeks early. The musical will now shutter on March 12 after 15 previews and 32 regular performances.
Based on John Cleland's novel of the same name, Fanny Hill is the story of a beautiful but poor country girl who travels to London to make her fortune and ends up making a great deal more… the army, the navy and most of Parliament. In the face of big city trials and tribulations, the heroine ends up giving new meaning to the expression "making it" when she becomes the foremost practitioner of the world's oldest profession.
Fanny Hill opened in New York on February 14. In his Broadway.com Review of the production, William Stevenson wrote: "Dixon wrote the book, music and lyrics, and his adaptation is wittier than it is lewd… The lyrics are as smart as the dialogue, and the music-a little bit Gilbert & Sullivan, a little bit Les Miz--suits the period. Most of the songs are short, upbeat and droll… James Brennan's direction accentuates the show's cheeky sense of humor and keeps things moving along briskly."
