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Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster, Tim Renkow, Scarlett Johansson suing Disney.

Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster on Anything Goes (with a special performance); Tim Renkow on his new comedy series Jerk; Rebecca Rubin on Scarlett Johansson suing Disney.

Yesterday the audience was on its feet – more than once - to applaud the cast, the band and the design of Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre in London. On Front Row today Samira Ahmed talks to Kathleen Marshall, the director and choreographer about the appeal of the show today, and to Sutton Foster, the American star making her UK debut as Reno Sweeney, who gets to sing some of Cole Porter’s greatest songs including I Get a Kick Out of You which she has recorded especially for Front Row.

Co-written by Tim Renkow and Shaun Pye, the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three black-comedy series Jerk revolves around the character Tim who uses the fact that he has cerebral palsy to try and get away with anything. Tim Renkow joins us to discuss the new second series and representation of disability in television.

It was announced at the end of last week that Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney for breach of contract over the Marvel film Black Widow, with its scaled-back cinema release. Rebecca Rubin from Variety in New York considers the case and whether there might be further fallout as streaming is now such a significant income-generator for the major studios.

Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster

 is on at London's Barbican until Sunday 17 October 2021

Main image (above): Sutton Foster and the cast of Anything Goes

Image credit: : Tristram Kenton

Tim Renkow

The new series of Jerk starts tonight on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One at 1035pm except in Northern Ireland and all episodes are also available on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú iplayer.

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