Vote to admit women as Garrick members or we quit, Sting and Stephen Fry tell club
The Guardian|May 01, 2024
The musicians Sting and Mark Knopfler have co-signed a letter with some of London's leading theatre producers, warning that they will be obliged to resign their memberships of the men-only Garrick Club if members refuse to approve a decision to admit women in a vote next Tuesday.
Amelia Gentleman
Vote to admit women as Garrick members or we quit, Sting and Stephen Fry tell club

The letter, seen by the Guardian, was also signed by the actor Stephen Fry, the West End and Broadway theatre producer Karl Sydow, and Matthew Byam Shaw, an executive producer on The Crown television series and a co-founder of Playful Productions, a West End theatre production company.

Their concerns appear to have been primarily triggered by the bad publicity that the club's men-only membership has provoked in recent weeks, rather than the discriminatory nature of the membership rules.

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