![]() ![]() James recalls a meeting in which it was announced the production would be paused and that “everyone should pack up and go home for a couple of weeks,” he says with a laugh.Īnd Vanessa recalls telling people “See you in two and a half weeks!” and “See you in the next city!”īefore too long, she stopped proofing the playbills for locations where the show theoretically may have been able to resume and a crew was sent back to South Bend to pack up the set and other materials and put them in storage. The couple was with the show in South Bend, Indiana, at the time. “We’ve very lucky,” Vanessa adds, “because so many people in the show - they have families at home.” ![]() “For us,” James says during a recent joint phone interview in advance of the production’s run at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square, “to be able to work together and see some of America is great.” That was was about a decade ago, and a wedding and a move to the United States - he relocated before the marriage, she after the union, incidentally - followed.Īlthough it wasn’t the norm, they started working together again a few years ago on a national tour on Disney’s enduring stage adaptation of the “The Lion King” - with all its acclaimed animal costuming and puppeteering - for which she is a stage manager and he the music director/conductor. New musical ‘Cinderella’ is dressed for success with modern ideas, clever covers | Movie review Related Articlesīroadway theaters attack virus: ‘This is absolutely doable’ “Les Miserables” is among the credits of both James Dodgson and Vanessa Dodgson-Thomas, and you assume - correctly - that the production in London’s West End is how they met. ![]()
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