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Into 1994: If the Save the Lyric Hammersmith Campaign reaches its pounds 350,000 target new artistic director Neil Bartlett's first production will be The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Maria Aitken and Bette Bourne . . . Emma Thompson is first choice to play Mary Poppins in a planned stage musical . . . Michael Palin takes Great Railway Journeys for the BBC . . . Palin is also slated to star in Death Fish II, the first of two long delayed and much anticipated sequels to A Fish Called Wanda . . .