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"When it comes to triumphing in every trade, you'd be sore-pressed to find someone on stage as accomplished as Hadley Fraser.

From fronting major musical revivals to classic plays, the man has the enviable ability to appear anywhere."

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"It is an acting tour de force from Michael Balogun, Hadley Fraser and Nigel Lindsay. There is one wonderful moment I remember when Hadley Fraser plays eight different potential brides in rapid succession. Or the same actor, who I would have to say was the first among equals, briefly plays a man described as someone whose body is built around his smile. And it is."

"....as they found out when the music stopped, a moment when a metaphor of dancing sees the last of the Lehmans, again it’s Hadley Fraser, no longer making decisions but simply standing on a table doing the twist, as the computer coding spins across the back projection, showing the algorithms that have taken over from human beings, making him and his colleagues more and more money but taking them further and further from the real world. "

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Source : from Sergei Sarakhanov IG story

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The Gold - Hadley Fraser supercut!

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📷 : Sergei Sarakhanov

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😍😍🥵🥵

📸 : Sergei Sarakhanov

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Behind the stage and view from the wings on Lehman Trilogy

📸 : Hellen Murray

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Hadley Fraser is the standout as patronised Mayer Lehman. He shows astounding adaptability; flitting between a hilarious procession of Philip's potential wives to dancing himself to death as the delusional Bobbie, literally high on capitalism, while the stock market speeds towards destruction around him.

#hadley fraser #the lehman trilogy #potato hadley

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The third act rushes us from 1929 to 2008, although it does offer us the spectacle of Fraser dancing himself manically into the grave as Bobbie, a wafty Howard Hughes character and the last Lehman to control the company.

#hadley fraser #the lehman trilogy #potato hadley

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As the narrative shifts, the three actors playing the three original Lehmans – Henry, Emanuel and Mayer, the head, the arm and "the potato" who keeps peace between them – take on multiple roles.

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I particularly loved Lindsay's uptight Philip, pouring out his torrent of words as he pushes the business towards the future; the scene where he auditions a succession of potential wives, all played by Fraser with swift changes of voice and gesture is a comic joy; Fraser is wonderful too as the final Lehman, Bobbie, twisting in an ever quickening dance (choreography by Polly Bennett) as the firm hurtles towards the end. 

#hadley fraser #the lehman trilogy #potato hadley

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Michael Balogun, Hadley Fraser and Nigel Lindsay in The Lehman Trilogy

#hadley fraser #the lehman trilogy #i am looking respectfully

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CRYING

#hadley fraser

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“It’s really easy to look at these institutions like banks and ignore the fact that they’re made up of humans; all of the things you’re hearing on the news cycle — the markets and all of that stuff. A bank is made up of people, and it becomes non-human the bigger it gets, and when it falls apart, the collateral becomes human. For me, that’s what I found so moving,” Fraser told us.

#hadley fraser #gorgeous-voiced dreamboat #the lehman trilogy #sam mendes #west end #Michael balogun #Nigel Lindsay #straight theater hadley

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Yes yes, I realize The Lehman Trilogy is a Tony-award winning play with Oscar & Tony-Award winning director Sam Mendes bringing it to the West End but…you mean to tell me…we might get multiple hours of Hadley in a tailored suit??? 🫣😵‍💫🥺🥵

“The three actors not only play the three Lehman brothers who founded the business but all other roles. They play their children and grandchildren, including Philip Lehman (son of Emanuel, played by Simon Russell Beale), Herbert Lehman (son of Mayer, played by Ben Miles), and Robert Lehman (son of Philip, played by Adam Godley), as well as various minor characters[20] during the unfolding of family history such as wives, toddlers, and business partners, although they never change the original costume – tailored three-piece suits often seen in 19th-century portraits of men.”

EMPHASIS MINE.

#hadley fraser #straight theater hadley #gorgeous-voiced dreamboat #west end #the lehman trilogy #Michael balogun #Nigel Lindsay #Sam mendes #Hadley in a tailored suit? #I’m here for the literature I swear #😘