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News and Press In 2001 Gillian received the highest honour available from the Royal Academy of Dance - the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation award - to mark a lifetime's achievement. The award was presented by Royal Academy of Dance vice-chairwoman Dame Beryl Grey at Her Majesty's Theatre Haymarket. After a triumphant night in New York in January 2006 when Gillian staged a special gala of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA as it overtook CATS as the longest running show ever on Broadway, she prepared a new production of PHANTOM for Las Vegas, which opened to great acclaim in June of that year and is now firmly on the must-see list of all visitors. ' In 2008 Gillian directed and staged "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", a concert in memory of Ian Adam, the Singing Teacher who taught so many actors how to cope with the pressures of the musical theatre, before going to Washington to stage Moliere's Le Malade Imaginaire for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. She also found time to visit the Beijing Academy of Dance to give a mastclass. In 2009 Gillian's award winning dramatic ballet A SIMPLE MAN about the life of L.S.Lowry is being performed again by the Northern Ballet Theatre as part of their 40th Anniversary celebrations. Press Click on the following to download a copy of the article. You can choose to download the file as a Microsoft Word document or as an Adobe Acrobat PDF (version 2.1 and above). The Daily Telegraph The Express
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