Terry Parsons

Terry has recently had great success with a major new production of Singing in the Rain in Copenhagen where he has previously designed brand new productions of Mary Poppins and Les Misérables (sets) for Det Ny Teater and Treasure Island for Folketeatret.dk. His many other credits in Denmark include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The King and I, High School Musical, Showboat, Be Bop A Lula, a concert version of Grease and Romeo and Juliet.

Terry has designed thirty-seven productions in London’s West End, ranging from the mega-hit Grease – which continues to play in the West End and all over the U.K – Where’s Charley? and The Pirates of Penzance (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), Silly Cow with Dawn French, Gasping with Hugh Laurie, Two Into One with Donald Sinden and Michael Williams, major musical productions of South Pacific, Sweet Charity, Some Like It Hot, Charlie Girl, the ballet of Jane Eyre a re-creation of the original designs for Andrew Lloyd-Webbers’ production of Daisy Pulls It Off, and the original stage production of Singin’ in the Rain at the London Palladium.

Well-known for his pantomime designs, among them lavish versions of Cinderella for Stanley Baxter and Mother Goose for Danny La Rue, Terry has recently designed a portfolio of major new star-studded productions – amongst them Peter Pan with Henry Winkler, Cinderella with Mickey Rooney, Snow White with Ross Kemp, Peter Pan with Bonnie Langford and for Christmas 2010, Dick Whittington starring Barbara Windsor.

Extensive earlier credits include When We Are Married with Timothy West, Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge, Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge with Topol, Time and the Conways with Joan Plowright (Old Vic), Miranda with Penelope Keith and Underneath the Arches (both Chichester); No Trams to Lime Street (Liverpool), The Surprise Party with Peter Duncan, Matthew Kelly and Ruth Madoc, and Kay Mellor’s A Passionate Woman, Shady Business, A Foot in the Door, Deadly Murder and Framed at Sonning. Terry’s earlier international designs include the European premieres of Edward Albee’s The Goat and the award winning Proof, Sian Phillips’ concert costumes for Marlene (Broadway), Fame (Scandinavia), Grease (Paris), Chicago (Athens), Blithe Spirit, Move Over Mrs Markham and Sailor Beware (Denmark).

Amongst Terry’s many credits for Vienna’s English Theatre are Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Visiting Mr Green, Romantic Comedy, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks and Funny Money.