page_title: Edward Scissorhands (dance)
section_title: Productions
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Scissorhands (dance) / Productions
caption_attribution_description: Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, Finsbury, Islington, London. 5 November 2005. Photographer: Fin Fahey.
context_page_description: Edward Scissorhands is a contemporary dance adaptation of the 1990 American romance fantasy film Edward Scissorhands, created by Matthew Bourne, with music by Terry Davies. The screenwriter and composer of the film version, Caroline Thompson and Danny Elfman, helped to develop the dance version, which is set in the 1950s. The story is told entirely through music and dance with no discourse although the plot is similar to the movie.
  The piece debuted in London in 2005 and, despite mixed reviews, has subsequently toured in Britain, Asia, the U.S., Australia and Europe. The productions have been put on by Bourne's New Adventures dance company.
context_section_description: The British New Adventures dance company raised $2 million that was augmented by $780,000 from the Arts Council England to stage the original production at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre, which opened in November 2005 and closed on February 5, 2006. Eventually, the show was staged in Asia, the United States, Australia and Europe with New Adventures.  The dance adaptation featured 30 members of the company.  Marc Platt was the lead producer.
  Sam Archer and Richard Winsor alternated in the main role, wearing a heavily elasticized costume with fiberglass blades and a thick leather forearm brace. They also starred in the following tour, with Archer staying on through the U.S. tour.  Regular Bourne collaborators Scott Ambler and Etta Murfitt were associate directors and co-stars.  Set and costume design were both by Lez Brotherston in a style described as a sort of Desperate Housewives suburbia of mild-mannered characters. His 1950's suburbia sets were inspired by Peggy Sue Got Married and Back to the Future.   Howard Harrison designed lights and Paul Groothuis was sound designer.
  Following its 11-week London run, it had a United Kingdom tour that lasted for 14 weeks and that was followed by performances in Japan, Korea and the United States, where it ran until Spring 2007. In November and December 2006, it played in San Francisco at the Orpheum Theatre, where it made its American debut with previews on November 11 and 12 and a November 14 opening.  In February 2007, it played at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It spent part of April and May at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. The New York run was held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Other venues on the United States tour included Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, Belk Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina, Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. By the time it played in Brooklyn, it had visited a dozen North American cities.
  In May 2008, an Australian national tour was launched at the Sydney Opera House.  The piece returned to Europe for a 2008–09 tour that included performances in Britain for the 2008 Christmas season. Venues on the Europe tour included Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Hippodrome Theatre in Birmingham, New Wimbledon Theatre and Sadler's Wells Theatre in London as well as stops in Salford, Athens and Antwerp.  Among the cities that it sold out are New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne and Paris.
caption: Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, where the show premiered in November 2005
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