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Karl Sydow is known for Red Joan (2018), Unicorns (2023) and A Bunch of Amateurs (2008).
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Karl Sydow produced Sting’s The Last Ship at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco in 2020, at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto in 2019, following a 2018 tour of the UK and Ireland.
Karl Sydow is an award-winning stage and film producer, and one of the UK’s most successful theatrical entrepreneurs. Karl was an Executive Producer on Red Joan and is partnering with Trademark on several development projects.
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He arrived in the UK in 1973 and fell in love, both with the country and with his wife-to-be Anita, whom he met on the train back to Oxford after a night out in London. “It was just an amazing place to be at that time. I could go to a club in Oxford Street and see David Bowie performing, and I could go to the theatre the next night and see Glenda J...
As it turned out, the Sydow strategy worked a treat, and the Barbican became the first theatre in the UK to take telephone credit card bookings. On the back of its success, Sydow left to start up the West End’s first credit card booking agency, First Call. “It was like turning on a tap,” recalls Sydow, who was still in his 20s at the time. “I put a...
What was your first non-theatre job? Fitter in the Chrysler automobile assembly plant in Illinois. What was your first professional theatre job? Rock musician. Who or what was your biggest influence? Jack Sydow, Michael Codron and my daughter Katerina, who persuaded me that producing the stage version of Dirty Dancing was a good idea. What’s your b...
Though new writing and the nurturing of new talent is Sydow’s passion, paradoxically it is the ever-popular Dirty Dancing for which he is best known. He insists it is a play with music and dance rather than a musical – “nobody sings a love duet, the music swirls around them” – and while he has strived to make the show slicker, sexier and more styli...
… Regional marketing It’s tough to keep theatre alive outside London. Subsidy has been heavily cut back and the cost of everything has gone up. Most regional theatres are not funded well enough to market new shows properly now, which puts original work at risk. If audiences are not kept informed of what’s on, they are not going to take a risk on so...
Born: 1953, Rockford, Illinois Training: Northern Illinois University; Oxford University Career highlights: Chief executive, First Call (1982-1996), Board member, Out of Joint (1993-present) Landmark productions: The Queen and I, Royal Court, London (1994), Our Country’s Good, various touring productions, Some Explicit Polaroids, Ambassadors Theatr...
Jul 27, 2016 · Karl Sydow. Unlike Ghost, the hero doesn’t die but makes a woman and dancer of 18 year old ‘innocent ‘Baby’. It helps, says director Karl, that the actor playing dance teacher Johnny was...
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Nov 26, 2021 · Producer Karl Sydow has announced the West End return of a dazzlingly renewed version of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage, following a sell-out 2021 UK and Ireland tour. The...
