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…
29 November 1977 - Daily Express
She created a Muppets routine for thew Royal Variety Performance last Monday, coaxed John Curry into a ballet solo for a gala do, and worked out the dance bits for a Petula Clark show…
12 October 1976
The Comedy of Errors is the RSC’s first attempt to apply musical comedy techniques to a Shakespeare play. Its enormous critical and public success…
20 September 1975 - Australian Press
When Gillian Lynne wanted to film ballet on the roof of Sydney Opera House, in the corridors leading to the Concert Hall and on the steps by the…
16 January 1971 - Kine Weekly
FRANK ZAPPA’S view of life as a pop musician on the road in 1971, ‘200 Motels’ goes into production on Monday, February 1 at Pinewood Studios…
22 December 1967 - The Times
Gillian Lynne is not a watch-wearing kind of girl. In her experience watches tend to get left behind in New York hotel rooms…
1 July 1964 - The Daily Mail
War has been declared; battle commenced. And to Cliff Richard goes the not unimportant privilege of striking the first blow…
18 December 1957 - The Star
Christmas greetings from THE STARS including Harry Secombe, Frankie Howerd, Dickie Henderson and Alma Cogan to readers of The Star…
29 December 1956 - Picturegoer
Takes two to film a one-girl dance sequence: the star and the dancing stand-in. On Let’s Be Happy, at Elstree, Gillian Lynne went over cover girl Vera-Ellen’s routines…
22 September 1953 - The Weekly Sporting Review - Show Business
The Americans haven’t a monoply of pin-ups, as shown below by GI enthusiasts for Gillian Lynne’s shapely figure…
18 December 1950 - Chicago Sun-Times
Gillian Lynne, in Chicago with the famed Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company, is an expressive young lady…
25 November 1949 - The Toronto Telegram
Le Lac des Cygnes, the ballet for which Tschaikowsky wrote the music but never saw performed in the fullness of its beauty…
