Cameron Smith catches up with Welsh singer, dancer and stage actor Ian ‘H’ Watkins, well-known for being a member of pop group Steps, but also now a musical theatre regular. He is currently playing the lead role in the touring production of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. Ian ‘H’ Watkins, best-known as a member of the pop band […]
Rachel Tucker – St James Theatre
Rachel Tucker performed in concert at the St James Theatre, London. When launching her new album The Reason in July this year, Rachel Tucker played St James Studio. This time she was promoted to the main house and sold out. The evening also marked the opening of the London Festival of Cabaret and Tucker, along […]
A Love Affair From A 2 Z – St James Theatre
A Love Affair From A 2 Z with Leigh Zimmerman and Domenick Allen at the St James Theatre Studio, London. Leigh Zimmerman certainly knows how to make a guy feel small. At 5ft 11in this statuesque American has a start on most of them anyway, but in her high heels she towers over her long-haired […]
Bare – The Rock Musical – Greenwich Theatre
Bare – The Rock Musical continues at the Greenwich Theatre, London until 27 October. Set in present day Massachusetts, Bare – The Rock Musical tells a story of a group of teenagers at St Cecilia’s Boarding School. Central to the plot is the relationship between Peter, a softly spoken young man attempting to come to terms […]
Days of Hope – Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre Pub
Days of Hope continues at Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre Pub, London until 18 October. The Spanish Civil War doesn’t leap out at you as the natural subject for a musical but Howard Goodall has never been a coward. His career shows a composer who is directed by personal artistic interest rather than purely […]
The Secret Garden In Concert – Touring
The Secret Garden – In Concert was performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and continues its UK tour until 2 November. Starting off at the King’s Head Theatre in Islington, Aria Entertainment and Knockhardy Productions’ take on composer Lucy Simon and librettist/lyricist’s Marsha Norman’s musical version of the classic French children’s novel The Secret Garden […]
The Bakewell Bake Off – Landor Theatre
The Bakewell Bake-Off continues at the Landor Theatre, London, until 26 October. A fun night, good songs, fine team playing by stars of the future… what’s not to like in a frothy musical millefeuille of a pastry concocted by Guildford School of Acting graduates that started as an in-house project, moved up a gear to […]
Urinetown – Russell and Fleeshman cast
Jenna Russell, Richard Fleeshman and Jonathan Slinger will lead the cast in the UK premiere of multi-Tony Award-winning Urinetown the Musical, directed by Jamie Lloyd, running at St James Theatre, London from 22 February–3 May 2014 (opening night is 11 March). The cast for the musical, which features music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann and book and […]
Billy Stritch and the art of cabaret
Fiona-Jane Weston talks to award-winning New York and international jazz cabaret artist Billy Stritch about the art of cabaret in general and his show at the Crazy Coqs, London: I’ve Got Your Number – The Jazz of Cy Coleman. Billy Stritch has been performing as a piano player since very young, when he was considered a […]
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Touring
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers was performed at the New Wimbledon, London and continues on tour until 10 May, 2014. The biggest surprise about the musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers is that it was not originally a stage production. It was a movie musical starring Howard Keel and Jane Powell that became one of the […]
The Light Princess – National Theatre
The Light Princess continues at the Lyttelton in rep at the National Theatre, London until 9 January. The best children’s fairytale stories of classic literature are allegories wrapped up in engaging fantasy storytelling. The National’s new musical, The Light Princess, is a beautifully told example in this tradition, showing how living in denial may produce short-term […]
The Commitments – Palace Theatre
The Commitments opened at the Palace Theatre, London on 8 October. Roddy Doyle’s socially engaged novel The Commitments focuses on young, working-class Dubliners in 1986 who view soul music as a form a release: the music of the people. Doyle’s book was made into a successful film in 1999 and now the piece has made its way to […]
