Plans are in the works for a new Noël Coward compilation show starring Elaine Stritch. The show is aiming for a December West End berth before a Broadway transfer, according to Variety.
Coward and Stritch became friends after he went to see her in Goldilocks. He chose her to star in his musical Sail Away, which featured one of her now-signature songs "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" Stritch spoke lovingly about Coward in her Tony-winning Elaine Stritch at Liberty.
Coward's plays include The Vortex, Hay Fever, Easy Virtue, This Was a Man, Tonight at 8:30, Conversation Piece, The Marquise, Fallen Angels, Design for Living, Private Lives, Present Laughter, Look After Lulu, Waiting in the Wings and Blithe Spirit. In addition to Sail Away, his musicals include This Year of Grave, Bitter Sweet, Ziegfeld Follies of 1931, The Girl Who Came To Supper, After the Ball, Set to Music, Noël Coward's Sweet Potato which used existing material and Oh Coward! which celebrated his life work.
This new Coward show will be produced by Howard Panter for Ambassador Theatre Group.
