Ah say! Corrie’s Fred in Cole Porter musical

 
Publicity shot for LOST MUSICALS Cole Porter's ALADDIN attached. The last ever score that Cole Porter ever wrote..... JOHN SAVIDENT as the MAGICIAN in ALADDIN. Photography by Matt Martin Photography.
PR image- Photography by Matt Martin Photography.
17 August 2012

Coronation Street star John Savident, 74, is to star in the European premiere of Cole Porter’s final musical.

Savident, best known as butcher Fred Elliott in the TV soap, will play the title role in Aladdin. It is inspired by the fairy tale but is not a pantomime. The work was presented as a one-off TV broadcast in 1958. Now it will be heard after Cole Porter expert Ian Marshall Fisher trawled the Porter archive. He said: “Most people would be completely unaware of his last show, at the end of a 30-plus year career.” Aladdin will be performed at the Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wells over the next three weekends.

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