Diana Morrison
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Diana Morrison is a British stage, TV and Film actress.

Career summary

Diana played the principal role of Jenny in Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...

's
musical Aspects of Love
Aspects of Love
Aspects of Love is a musical/chamber opera with a book and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart. It is famous for the song "Love Changes Everything."...

 directed by Trevor Nunn
Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE is an English theatre, film and television director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed musicals and dramas for the stage, as well as opera...

, in the original
London West End production at The Prince of Wales Theatre throughout
the whole run, from 1989 - 1992.

Diana sang the role of Jenny on the original London cast recording and also
recorded a duet from the show The First Man You Remember with
Michael Ball
Michael Ball (singer)
Michael Ashley Ball, born 27 June 1962) is a British actor, singer, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius in Les Misérables, Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad...

, which was released as a single and has been included on
many compilation albums including Andrew Lloyd Webber 60 and Andrew
Lloyd Webber - The Premiere Collection Encore.

Diana played Madeline Bassett in the 1996 revival cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn
Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...

's musical By Jeeves directed by
Alan Ayckbourn at The Stephen Joseph Theatre and then at The Duke of
York's and Lyric Theatres in London's West End.
Cinema credits include Quills directed by Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter. His movies have adapted novels of widely different types – from Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being to Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun; from Tom Wolfe’s heroic epic The Right Stuff to the erotic writings of Anaïs Nin’s...

, playing Mademoiselle Renard, the victim of an execution.

Diana has also appeared in numerous TV dramas, stage plays and musicals, ranging from the 1988 BBC TV Serial The Watch House to the 2001 revival of the Feydeau farce Horse and Carriage at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds.

In 2008, she guest starred in the Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

audio adventure The Condemned
The Condemned (Doctor Who audio)
The Condemned is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. -Plot:...

.

Currently, Diana is composing music for Film and TV with Bob Kraushaar - http://www.kraushaarmorrison.com

External links

  • http://www.reallyuseful.com/shows/aspects-of-love
  • http://www.reallyuseful.com/shows/by-jeeves
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