Bill Kenwright, the prolific West End producer behind the hit musicals Blood Brothers, Whistle Down the Wind and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat who would later go on to become an owner and chairman of his boyhood soccer club Everton, has died. He was 78.
比尔·肯赖特去世，他是伦敦西区多产的制作人，曾创作过热门音乐剧《血色兄弟》、《随风吹口哨》和《约瑟夫与神奇的彩色梦幻大衣》，后来成为了童年时代埃弗顿足球俱乐部的老板和主席。他享年78岁。
In a statement, Everton said Kenwright died peacefully, “surrounded by his family and loved ones.” This month, the Premier League club revealed that Kenwright had recently undergone surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his liver.
埃弗顿在一份声明中说，肯赖特平静地去世了，“他的家人和亲人都在身边。”本月，英超俱乐部透露，肯赖特最近接受了肝脏肿瘤切除手术。
“The world of British theatre without Bill Kenwright seems impossible,” said fellow theater impresario Cameron Mackintosh in a statement on X. “In my lifetime, there has never been anyone like Bill. He’s totally irreplaceable, and we will miss him so.”
“没有比尔·肯赖特的英国戏剧界似乎是不可能的，”同为剧院经理的卡梅伦·麦金托什在x上发表声明说，“在我的一生中，从来没有像比尔这样的人。他是完全不可替代的，我们会非常想念他。”
“Dearest Bill, Somewhere you’ll be singing Let It Be Me and challenging heavenly choirs to look into your Ebony Eyes,” Andrew Lloyd Webber tweeted. “The theatre will miss you and never forget you.”
安德鲁·劳埃德·韦伯在推特上写道:“最亲爱的比尔，你会在某个地方唱《Let It be Me》，挑战天堂的合唱团，让他们看着你乌黑的眼睛。”“剧院会想念你，永远不会忘记你。”
“Like many grateful actors, I am in debt to Bill Kenwright for employment,” Ian McKellen said in a statement on X. “He seemed to have known everyone in the business and to care about them. Yet every chat would veer round to his equal passion — Everton.”
“和许多心存感激的演员一样，比尔·肯莱特给了我这份工作，”伊恩·麦克莱恩在x频道的一份声明中说，“他似乎认识这个行业的每一个人，也很关心他们。然而，每次谈话都会转到他同样热爱的埃弗顿。”
With a string of hits on the London stage, Kenwright was in the first rank of British theater producers and was involved with Blood Brothers, Cabaret, The Wizard of Oz, Evita, Jekyll & Hyde, Fame and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
凭借在伦敦舞台上的一系列热门作品，肯赖特是英国一流的戏剧制作人，参与了《血兄弟》、《歌舞表演》、《绿野仙踪》、《艾维塔》、《化身》、《成名与约瑟夫》和《神奇的彩色梦幻大衣》。
Born in Liverpool, England, on Sept. 4, 1945, Kenwright entered the entertainment industry as an actor. He had a starring role in the long-running ITV soap Coronation Street, playing the character of Gordon Clegg since April 1968. He left the show the following year to pursue a career as a producer but periodically made cameo appearances on Coronation Street over the next five decades, the last time in 2012.
肯赖特1945年9月4日出生于英国利物浦，以演员的身份进入娱乐圈。1968年4月，他在ITV的长篇肥皂剧《加冕街》中扮演戈登·克莱格一角。第二年，他离开了这部剧，开始了自己的制片人生涯，但在接下来的50年里，他不时地在《加冕街》中客串，最后一次是在2012年。
Turning to theater production, Kenwright made his name by producing new productions of existing musicals. He found great success with his production of Willy Russell’s Liverpool-set Blood Brothers in 1987. The production would become an enduring hit, running in the West End for 24 years, embarking on several national and international tours and transferring to Broadway.
转向戏剧制作，肯赖特通过制作现有音乐剧的新作品而成名。1987年，他出演了威利·罗素以利物浦为背景的《血兄弟》，获得了巨大成功。这部作品后来成为经久不衰的热门作品，在伦敦西区上演了24年，进行了几次国内和国际巡演，并转战百老汇。
Kenwright also produced Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, another production that would go on to become a long-running national and international touring hit.
肯赖特还制作了劳埃德·韦伯和蒂姆·赖斯的《约瑟夫和神奇的彩色梦衣》，这是另一部在国内和国际巡演中长期流行的作品。
比尔·肯赖特去世，他是伦敦西区多产的制作人，曾创作过热门音乐剧《血色兄弟》、《随风吹口哨》和《约瑟夫与神奇的彩色梦幻大衣》，后来成为了童年时代埃弗顿足球俱乐部的老板和主席。他享年78岁。
In a statement, Everton said Kenwright died peacefully, “surrounded by his family and loved ones.” This month, the Premier League club revealed that Kenwright had recently undergone surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his liver.
埃弗顿在一份声明中说，肯赖特平静地去世了，“他的家人和亲人都在身边。”本月，英超俱乐部透露，肯赖特最近接受了肝脏肿瘤切除手术。
“The world of British theatre without Bill Kenwright seems impossible,” said fellow theater impresario Cameron Mackintosh in a statement on X. “In my lifetime, there has never been anyone like Bill. He’s totally irreplaceable, and we will miss him so.”
“没有比尔·肯赖特的英国戏剧界似乎是不可能的，”同为剧院经理的卡梅伦·麦金托什在x上发表声明说，“在我的一生中，从来没有像比尔这样的人。他是完全不可替代的，我们会非常想念他。”
“Dearest Bill, Somewhere you’ll be singing Let It Be Me and challenging heavenly choirs to look into your Ebony Eyes,” Andrew Lloyd Webber tweeted. “The theatre will miss you and never forget you.”
安德鲁·劳埃德·韦伯在推特上写道:“最亲爱的比尔，你会在某个地方唱《Let It be Me》，挑战天堂的合唱团，让他们看着你乌黑的眼睛。”“剧院会想念你，永远不会忘记你。”
“Like many grateful actors, I am in debt to Bill Kenwright for employment,” Ian McKellen said in a statement on X. “He seemed to have known everyone in the business and to care about them. Yet every chat would veer round to his equal passion — Everton.”
“和许多心存感激的演员一样，比尔·肯莱特给了我这份工作，”伊恩·麦克莱恩在x频道的一份声明中说，“他似乎认识这个行业的每一个人，也很关心他们。然而，每次谈话都会转到他同样热爱的埃弗顿。”
With a string of hits on the London stage, Kenwright was in the first rank of British theater producers and was involved with Blood Brothers, Cabaret, The Wizard of Oz, Evita, Jekyll & Hyde, Fame and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
凭借在伦敦舞台上的一系列热门作品，肯赖特是英国一流的戏剧制作人，参与了《血兄弟》、《歌舞表演》、《绿野仙踪》、《艾维塔》、《化身》、《成名与约瑟夫》和《神奇的彩色梦幻大衣》。
Born in Liverpool, England, on Sept. 4, 1945, Kenwright entered the entertainment industry as an actor. He had a starring role in the long-running ITV soap Coronation Street, playing the character of Gordon Clegg since April 1968. He left the show the following year to pursue a career as a producer but periodically made cameo appearances on Coronation Street over the next five decades, the last time in 2012.
肯赖特1945年9月4日出生于英国利物浦，以演员的身份进入娱乐圈。1968年4月，他在ITV的长篇肥皂剧《加冕街》中扮演戈登·克莱格一角。第二年，他离开了这部剧，开始了自己的制片人生涯，但在接下来的50年里，他不时地在《加冕街》中客串，最后一次是在2012年。
Turning to theater production, Kenwright made his name by producing new productions of existing musicals. He found great success with his production of Willy Russell’s Liverpool-set Blood Brothers in 1987. The production would become an enduring hit, running in the West End for 24 years, embarking on several national and international tours and transferring to Broadway.
转向戏剧制作，肯赖特通过制作现有音乐剧的新作品而成名。1987年，他出演了威利·罗素以利物浦为背景的《血兄弟》，获得了巨大成功。这部作品后来成为经久不衰的热门作品，在伦敦西区上演了24年，进行了几次国内和国际巡演，并转战百老汇。
Kenwright also produced Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, another production that would go on to become a long-running national and international touring hit.
肯赖特还制作了劳埃德·韦伯和蒂姆·赖斯的《约瑟夫和神奇的彩色梦衣》，这是另一部在国内和国际巡演中长期流行的作品。
