Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story” showing Oct. 18-24 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre.
“Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story” is a documentary feature from director and producer Barnaby Thompson. 2023 was the 50th anniversary of Noel Coward’s death so it seems the right moment to look back at his extraordinary life.
The film features Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Peter O’Toole, Harold Pinter, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, Michael Caine, and Lucille Ball. It is narrated by Alan Cumming and Rupert Everett is the voice of Noel Coward. Adam Lambert has recorded a new version of the title track, which has already had over a million hits on Spotify.
Noël Coward grew up in poverty and left school when he was only nine years old. He was queer in a very straight world. And yet by the age of 30, he was the highest paid writer in the world, and a star on the Broadway stage.
Coward wrote, directed, and acted in some of the finest plays and movies of all time, including “Private Lives”, “Blithe Spirit”, “Brief Encounter” and “In Which We Serve”. He also became a world-renowned songwriter and performer of whom Frank Sinatra said, “If you want to hear how a song should be sung, go see Mr Noel Coward.”
And if that wasn’t enough, he discovered John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and David Lean and was a spy in the Second World War! Against all odds, Noel Coward became the most successful multi-talented artist of the Twentieth Century. He was the epitome of self- invention and defined an era. This is his inspirational story told in his own words and music, and unique home movies.
“A fascinating portrait of a 20th-century great.” — The Guardian
“A mesmerizing journey into matchless wit and style.” — The Independent
“Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre Oct. 18-24. Showtimes will be Friday, Saturday, Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 18, 19, 23 and 24 at 3:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 20, 21 and 22 at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12 general admission, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.
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