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Helen Dallimore
July 17, 2009 01:06 PM
Helen Dallimore
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In September, it will have been three years since an Australian unknown, Helen Dallimore, opened as Glinda in the West End premiere of Wicked, opposite Tony winner Idina Menzel’s Elphaba. After a year of descending to the stage of the Apollo Victoria Theatre in a bubble and belting out "Popular," she returned to Sydney and her partner of six years, actor-director Abe Forsythe. (The couple got married three months ago.) Now Dallimore, 38, is back on the London stage in a show, Too Close to the Sun at the Comedy Theatre, that promises to be the complete antithesis to Wicked. It’s a chamber musical with a cast of four about the last day or so in the life of Ernest Hemingway. James Graeme plays the fearsome American novelist who gave us The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises, among many other classics, before shooting himself in 1961, and Dallimore is his fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway, who died a quarter century later. In London, Dallimore is staying this time around in the Clapham home of her Wicked co-star, Miriam Margolyes. She spoke animatedly to Broadway.com during a rehearsal break from the show, which opens on July 24....
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