Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
‘Lehman Trilogy’ planning to return to Broadway this fall
nypost.comThe Lehman Trilogy” plans to return to Broadway this fall, a source told The Post.Playwright Stefano Massini’s drama (adapted by Ben Power), which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2022, would begin performances at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in September.The three-hander — a sprawling history of Lehman Brothers leading up to the 2008 financial crash — would slide in to fill the void left by the revival of Lerner and Loewe’s “Camelot,” which opened in the spring and is closing early on July 23 due to poor ticket sales.
That 1960 musical, directed by Bartlett Sher, had been extended through at least Sept. 3, but it did not garner the same level of acclaim or demand that his revivals of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” and “The King and I” did.
Both of those shows ran more than a year on Broadway.No word yet on “Lehman” casting. The original Broadway production, directed by Sam Mendes at the Nederlander Theater, starred British actors Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Adrian Lester.
While all three were nominated for the Best Actor in a Play Tony, Beale ultimately took home the trophy.Godley currently plays the narrator in the Britney Spears musical “Once Upon A One More Time” at the Marriott Marquis.
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