{"id":729883,"date":"2026-08-07T00:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729883\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:36:14","slug":"grease-legend-stockard-channing-is-on-the-fringe-of-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729883\/","title":{"rendered":"Grease legend Stockard Channing is on the Fringe of something new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the impressive back catalogue of previous works between the pair, both are happy to &#8220;return to their roots&#8221; when it comes to this play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An idea that started round a table in a flat is now ready to be shown to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s been put together on a tight budget, with David driving himself up from London in a small Ford car with all the kit to put on this show. The small team will also stay in student accommodation while in the city, as a way to keep down costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The play has been put together to raise funds for The Wembley to Soweto Foundation, which David set up in 2010. It provides photographic training and life-skills to disadvantaged young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will perform 27 shows during their time at the Festival Fringe, but Stockard admits it&#8217;s David who has been the real organiser behind making the show become a reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We sat in at my kitchen table and discussed everything,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a weight off not to have a massive production involved. But really it&#8217;s down to David that everything has come together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the impressive back catalogue of previous works between the pair, both are happy to &#8220;return to their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}