Dancing Dan's Christmas Gift by Damon Runyon

Dancing Dan’s Christmas Gift by Damon Runyon is set on Christmas Eve in New York, where we meet a cast of associates drinking at a speakeasy. 

Damon Runyon

Damon Runyon was an American journalist and short-story writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era.

Jamie Parker

Theatre: Next To Normal (Donmar Warehouse); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), The Doctor (Adelaide Festival), Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre, Olivier for Best Actor, and Lyric Theater, Broadway, Tony Nomination for Best Actor), High Society (Old Vic), Guys and Dolls (Chichester Festival and Savoy Theatre, Olivier Nomination for Best Actor in a Musical), Candida (Theatre Royal Bath), Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Chichester and West End), My Zinc Bed (Northampton Theatre Royal), Racing Demon (Sheffield Crucible), A New World, As You Like It, HENRY IV Parts 1 & 2, HENRY V (Shakespeare’s Globe), Revenger’s Tragedy, The History Boys (National Theatre), The History Boys (Broadway and World Tour), Singer (Tricycle Theatre), Between the Crosses (Jermyn Street), Holes In The Skin, The Gondoliers (Chichester Festival Theatre) and After the Dance (Oxford Stage Co.)   

TV: The Crown (Netflix), Masters Of The Air (Apple TV+), The Long Shadow, Endeavour, Des, Wire in the Blood, Foyle’s War (ITV), Becoming Elizabeth (Starz), BBC Proms, Jonathan Stage and Mr. Norrell, Count Arthur Strong, Silk, Burn Up, Silent Witness, Maxwell (BBC).  

Film: 1917, Dirty Weekend, Valkyrie, The History Boys, Journey Home, The Lady in the Van.  

Music: The Golden Age of Broadway (Proms, 2021), The John Wilson Orchestra Performs, Frank Sinatra (Proms, 2015) 

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