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Christopher Renshaw

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Director b. 1952

Christopher Renshaw (born 18 March 1952 in Reading) is a British opera and theatre director. He has directed in multiple countries, including musical theatre in London's West End.

Also credited on1 work

High Society

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In the literature2 passages

  • The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization had gotten wind of an unusual and lavish, almost surreal, Australian production directed by Christopher Renshaw and toplin- ing former child star Hayley Mills as Anna Leonowens.ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
  • THE KING AND I Music, Richard Rodgers; Lyrics/Book, Oscar Hammerstein II; Director, Christopher Renshaw; Original Choreography, Jerome Robbins; Musical Staging, Lar Lubovitch; Musical Director, Michael Rafter; Musical Su¬ pervision, Eric Stem; Orchestrations, (original) Robert Russell Bennett, (new) Bruce Coughlin; Sets, Brian Thomson; Co…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1996-97 Season, v. 53 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — director — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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