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Read a selection of some of the articles about Gillian Lynne and her diverse career from her early days as a ballerina, becoming a US army pin-up girl and being a stand-in for Hollywood star Vera-Ellen to making a rock movie with Frank Zappa, Ringo Starr and Keith Moon, dancing on the Sydney Opera House roof, working with The Muppets, bringing musical comedy to Shakespeare and stage successes with Cats and Phantom of the Opera.
2 July 2018 - The Guardian
Cats and Phantom choreographer Gillian Lynne – a career in pictures.
The dancer and choreographer, who has…
2 July 2018 - The Guardian
Choreographer and dancer who breathed new life into musical theatre with the hit shows Cats and The Phantom of the Opera.
Since the 1970s, British musical theatre …
21 October 2015 - The Stage / Dance UK
More than 40 of Britain’s most renowned dance professionals – from prima ballerinas including Beryl Grey and Gillian Lynne to local dance…
18 October 2014 - British Theatre Guide
The evening belongs to the indomitable, ageless Dame Gillian Lynne, who needs no introduction: former theatre colleagues, impresarios…
26 September 2014 - Financial Times
Ahead of a production for Birmingham Royal Ballet, choreographer Gillian Lynne, still working at 88, talks about her ‘accident’ into dance …
12 February 2014 - The Guardian
Two grandes dames of classical ballet have ridiculed repeated claims…
5 May 2013 - The Stage
'Some might say I'm just a 'snobby old professional’
My interview with Gillian Lynne is…
26 April 2013 - What’s On Stage
Gillian Lynne, a former prima ballerina and choreographer of countless West End shows including Cats and Phantom of the Opera…
February 2005 - Dancing Times
Most participants in the world of theatre, be they actors, singers, dancers, choreographers or directors, are forward-looking to an almost…
21 May 1981 - International Herald Tribune
London - Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” is a vivid and marvellous gesture of transatlantic defiance…