![]() ![]() There’s also a terrific cast, headed by Rosalie Craig, Tamsin Carroll, Kat Ronney and Michael Elcock. In any case, Norris emphatically knows his way around a musical, and the last show he and Ronder did for the NT – 2013’s ‘Table’ – was excellent, albeit a wildly different prospect. The National Theatre’s first big musical of the pandemic era is ‘Hex’, an all-singing adaptation of the Sleeping Beauty myth that has raised a few eyebrows for being written by NT artistic. ![]() Accusations have ranged from nepotism to the NT being desperately skint, but it seems more likely that after two chaotic years, the need to pull a reasonably bankable Christmas show out of the hat in markedly less time than it takes to pull the average musical together simply led to Norris revisiting one that he made earlier - ‘Hex’ is in fact a reworking of a version of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ he did for the Young Vic way back in 2002. The National Theatre’s first big musical of the pandemic era is ‘Hex’, an all-singing adaptation of the Sleeping Beauty myth that has raised a few eyebrows for being written by NT artistic director Rufus Norris (on lyrics) and his wife Tanya Ronder (book) alongside Jim Fortune (music), with Norris directing.
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