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| The opening night of Billy Elliot the Musical next month will be one of the glittering occasions for which theatrical impresario Greene is famous. Greene, 50, chief executive of the Old Vic theatre, and her property-dealing husband Bourne, 54, are considered one of London's prime power couples, important donors to the Labour party and hosts of legendary parties. A former actress, Greene has taken over and restored three crumbling theatres in the past 20 years: the Richmond, the Criterion and the Old Vic. Along the way she has cultivated important relationships. Hillary Clinton is on her list of contacts and she persuaded Kevin Spacey to become artistic director of the Old Vic, where Peter Mandelson is a trustee and Sir Elton John (qv), who has composed the music for Billy Elliot, is chairman. Bourne and his brother Graham built up the Local London property group from a £6m float in 1986, selling it for £110m in 1989. They owned 15% of the company and should have received £16.5m. They then built and sold stakes in companies such as Ex-Lands and Clubhaus. Bourne had his own moment in the spotlight when his Legacy consortium emerged as a bidder for the disastrous Millennium Dome, and he is behind plans to develop London's Chinatown through his company Rosewheel. Bourne owns Happybadge Projects with £20m net assets, plus a £10m flat in Mayfair which he bought as an investment in 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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