"It is staggeringly outrageous that this problem is allowed to continue and proliferate, " says patient advocate Michael Bennett of Baltimore.

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The West End version will be choreographed by Bob Avian, who was a co-choreographer on the original Broadway show alongside Michael Bennett.

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His other production credits include TV film The Wind in the Willows, which was voiced by the likes of Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Gambon, Michael Palin and Alan Bennett.

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Nearly all the playwrights who can fill larger theatres, at least in the West End, are either pensioners (Tom Stoppard, Michael Frayn, Alan Bennett and Harold Pinter) or they are dead.

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His recent recordings included albums with Bennett, Simon, George Michael and Dionne Warwick.

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As Michael Lewis and the screenwriters, Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, and the director, Bennett Miller, tell it, Beane is a confident revolutionary who is, however, in torment.

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