I've Put My House (and My Husband) On the Line for This Pounds 6 Million Deal ; She's No Stranger to Risk, but West End Producer Nica Burns's Latest Venture Buying Four London Playhouses has Given Even Her Stagefright

Evening Standard - London › July 13, 2005

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POWER can go to your head.

But not, it seems, if you are Nica Burns. On Monday, the exuberant theatre producer and Perrier Awards mastermind casually mentioned to her friend David Schwimmer that she'd just taken control of - not to mention a half share in - four West End theatres. Schwimmer's reaction? "His draw dropped," beams Burns, "then he just started laughing."

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I've Put My House (and My Husband) On the Line for This Pounds 6 Million Deal ; She's No Stranger to Risk, but West End Producer Nica Burns's Latest Venture Buying Four London Playhouses has Given Even Her Stagefright

Christian Slater, recent star of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, phoned his friend from the States, and "in his dulcet tones he said 'That's fantastic, fantastic - well done.'" As for Saffron Burrows, "She said: 'I just don't believe it. How much have you borrowed?'" On Thursday night, in the shadow of the terrorist Tube and bus bombings, Burns signed a...

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