COVER STORY: FELICITY LOTT
© Nobby Clark
Swapping stages
Dame Felicity Lott’s career has spanned more than four decades, and yet her next project will be the first time she has worked in musical theatre. She tells Sarah Lambie about her expectations and fears
16 The Green Room Winter 2018
Congratulations on your forthcoming role in the National Theatre’s revival of their production of Follies: am I right in thinking that this will be your first foray into ‘theatre’ as distinct from opera? Yes! I got close with operetta in Paris: we did Offenbach’s La belle Hélène and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, ages ago now – and I did quite a bit of Viennese operetta: The Merry Widow and Fledermaus, but this will be very different.
