carrie hope fletcher's ghost light tour - setlist
i was at carrie hope fletcher's "ghost light" tour tonight in coventry, and wanted to share the setlist in case anyone was curious!! i'm definitely going to read more about some of these ghosts as the stories were super interesting :)
song: show yourself (frozen 2)
ghost: sir herbert beerbohm tree, his majesty's theatre
link: herbert's grandson, oliver reed, played bill sykes
song: as long as he needs me (oliver!)
ghost: violet melnotte, duke of york theatre (now tom stoppard theatre)
link: sheridan smith, who was in a production of shirley valentine at the duke of york theatre, also played audrey
song: somewhere that's green (little shop of horrors)
ghost: john baldwin buckstone, theatre royal haymarket
link: john's ghost apparently can only be seen if he approves of the current show. patrick stewart reported seeing john's ghost during his run of waiting for godot, but, unfortunately, no-one saw him during the 12 week run of heathers in which carrie played veronica!
song: fight for me (heathers)
ghost: joseph grimaldi, theatre royal drury lane
link: frozen played at the theatre royal drury lane for three years, but carrie thinks the songs in frozen 2 are better
song: all is found (frozen 2)
song: lost in the woods (frozen 2)
ghost: charles macklin, theatre royal drury lane
link: when carrie was young (too young for the show!), her mum took her to see witches of eastwick at the theatre royal drury lane. she doesn't remember any of it but now loves this song which is often cut from performances of witches of eastwick
song: loose ends (witches of eastwick)
ghost: louis bossalina, manhattan palace theatre
ghost: dan leno, theatre royal drury lane
link: dan leno was known for playing pantomime dames and especially for his version of cinderella. carrie was also in a version of cinderella in which she sang this song
song: i know i have a heart (ALW's cinderella)
INTERVAL
ghost: william terriss, adelphi theatre
link: the adelphi was home to waitress for a while a few years ago, carrie was just in waitress as jenna but the tour is still ongoing. if she'd timed it right (which she hoped she did), waitress' second act would have just started and she would be singing this song at the same time as bernadette
song: i didn't plan it (waitress)
ghost: evelyn laye, piccadilly theatre
link: evelyn laye's portrait had always hung in the piccadily theatre except when it was taken down (along with all of the other portraits) during refurbishment. suddenly, poltergeist activity skyrocketed - props flew across rooms and fell off shelves, pieces of costume went missing and turned up in odd places, and leading ladies found themselves locked in their dressing rooms right before they were about to go on stage. a FOH worker remembered there used to be a portrait hanging up and they found it and put it back up - the poltergeist activity promptly stopped again as soon as evelyn's portrait was back on the wall. carrie likes to think evelyn would have sang this to/about those leading ladies
song: little girls (annie)
ghost: sigmund neuberger aka the great lafayette, festival theatre edinburgh
link: when carrie was wednesday in the addams family they spent 3.5 weeks in edinburgh doing tech for the show then starting the tour there. she was in it with her best friend scott paige and loved teasing him, saying they'd perhaps see the light glinting off sigmund's rings in the wings of stage left (he was known for this). when they were doing their costume parade, they arrived stage right and scott let out a bloodcurdling scream saying he saw sigmund - carrie told him that what he was actually seeing was les dennis dressed as uncle fester
song: happy/sad (the addams family)
ghost: arthur bourchier, garrick theatre
link: five years ago (appropriately), the garrick hosted a production of the last five years
song: still hurting (the last five years)
ghost: carrie wonders where her ghost will be in 100 years - perhaps at the gillian lynne throwing glass slippers at people
song: remember me (coco)
ghost: anna pavlova, victoria palace theatre
link: victoria palace theatre is currently home to hamilton
song: you'll be back (hamilton)