Shirley Valentine Kershaw directed by Glen Walford. Two years later it opened in London's West End at the Vaudeville Theatre, with Pauline Collins directed by Simon Callow. After eight previews, the Broadway production, with Collins again directed by Callow, opened on 16 February 1989 at the Booth Theatre, where it ran for 324 performances. Ellen Burstyn replaced Collins later in the run, and Loretta Swit starred in a US national tour in 1995. From 26 March - 8 May 2010, as part of the Willy Russell season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Meera Syal played Shirley in the production's first London West
The Lost Valentine White's performance receiving high praise. The film received a generally positive review from "US Magazine", who said it was "Supercorny, though White tugs the heart". The film was a huge success which not only won its time period in viewers (14.53 million, beating out Fox's second hour of coverage of the NFL Pro Bowl) but represented the most-watched Hallmark movie in four years (since the film "Valley of Light" aired in January 2007). The film won the Faith & Freedom Award for Television at the 2012 Movieguide Awards. The Lost Valentine The Lost Valentine is a 2011 Hallmark Hall of