David Nixon OBE

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• Gillian Lynne
• A Simple Man [Mixed Programme]

Gillian Lynne

Theatre

• Collages (Edinburgh Festival)
• The Roar of the Greasepaint (Broadway)
• Pickwick, (Broadway, West End UK Tour)
• The Match Girls (West End)
• How Now Dow Jones (Broadway)
• Tonight at 8.30 (West End)
• The Card (West End)
• Hans Christian Anderson (West End)
• My Fair Lady (UK tour and West End)
• Tomfoolery (West End)
• Jeeves Takes Charge (West End)
• Cabaret (West End)
• Aspects of Love (West End and Broadway)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West End, Broadway, Singapore, UK and American tours)
• Cats (West End, Broadway, most major cities and tours all over the world)
• Phantom of the Opera (West End, Broadway, most major cities and tours all over the world)

For the Royal Shakespeare Company

• The Boyfriend
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Comedy of Errors
• The Way of the World
• As You Like It
• Once in a Lifetime
• The Secret Garden

Opera

• The Trojans
• The Midsummer Marriage
• The Flying Dutchman
• Parsifal
• Bluebeard

Ballet

• The Owl and the Pussycat
• Breakaway (Western Theatre Ballet)
• Cafe Soir (Houston Ballet Company)
• Lippizaner
• The Brontes (Northern Ballet Theatre)
• Journey (Bolshoi)
• Some You Win (Sadler's Wells)
• At the Hawks Well (BBC)

Films

• Wonderful Life
• Every Day's a Holiday
• Three Hats for Lisa
• Half a Sixpence
• 200 Motels
• Mr Love
• Man of La Mancha
• Quilp: The Old Curiosity Shop
• Yentl
• Under Milk Wood
• European Vacation II
• Cats: the Video

Career Highlights

• France: Moliere Award for best musical of the Year for Cats in Paris
• Austria: Silver Order of Merit, awarded for direction of Cats in Vienna
• Australia: Best Musical, Best Production awarded by ABC-TV for The Fool on the Hill, a special featuring the Australian Ballet
• USA: Samuel G Engel International TV Drama Award for the direction of BBC TV's The Morte d'Arthur
• Special Millennium George Abbott Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation
• UK: Olivier Award, Outstanding Achievement of the Year in a Musical for choreography of Cats
• BAFTA for conception, direction and choreography of A Simple Man for BBC TV
• The Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award given by the Royal Academy of Dance

And in 1997 Gillian was awarded the CBE.

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