Formby was performed at the Hackney Empire, London before continuing on tour until 2 November. You can’t help but feel a little confused when Ewan Wardrop pops his head around the curtains and announces: “I know what you’re thinking… he looks nothing like him!” It’s true, Wardrop, perhaps more familiar to audiences as a dancer from […]
Meet Ty Jeffries, aka Miss Hope Springs
Fiona-Jane Weston meets Miss Hope Springs (alter ego of songwriter and performer Ty Jeffries) who has a Sunday night residency at London’s The Crazy Coqs. Son of actor Lionel Jeffries (Camelot, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, director of The Railway Children) and actress Eileen Walsh, Ty grew up surrounded by artists of every genre (Fred Astaire and Danny La […]
Pride and Prejudice the Musical – Lyric, Belfast
Pride and Prejudice the Musical continues at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast until 6 October. Jane Austen’s timeless novel about manners and marriage has been an irresistible lure to film and television makers in recent years while remaining stubbornly resistant to making the transition from page to stage. The last high-profile attempt to set the enduring tale […]
Wilma and Friends – St James Studio
Wilma and Friends Cabaret was performed at the St James Theatre Studio, London. You didn’t really need to be Sherlock Holmes on entering the St James Theatre’s plush, if very compact downstairs studio space to realise this was not going to be your average night’s entertainment – a whole tea set, various teddy bears and a stand […]
Stephen Ward – Alexander Hanson leads line-up
The cast for the world premiere of Stephen Ward, directed by Richard Eyre, comprises Alexander Hanson in the title role, Charlotte Spencer as Christine Keeler, Charlotte Blackledge as Mandy Rice Davies, Anthony Calf as Lord Astor, Daniel Flynn as John Profumo, Joanna Riding as Valerie Hobson, Ian Conningham as Ivanov, Chris Howell as Murray, Ricardo […]
Stand Up the Musical – Floral Pavilion, New Brighton
Stand Up the Musical was performed at the Floral Pavilion, New Brighton. Take some of our most legendary entertainers, put them in a musical about stand-up comedy, and watch them all die on stage in a horrific car crash of a show that runs for five minutes less than Les Misérables and involves even fewer […]
Profumo the Musical – Waterloo East Theatre
Profumo the Musical was performed at the Waterloo East Theatre, London. As part of Waterloo East Theatre’s New Musical Showcase Season, Gordon Kenney presented the world premiere of Profumo the Musical, pipping Andrew Lloyd Webber to the post. The latter’s musical Stephen Ward about the Profumo affair will open at the Aldwych Theatre in December. […]
Love, Lies and Lust – Queen’s, Hornchurch
Love, Lies and Lust continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 21 September. Love, Lies and Lust premiered at the Queen’s Theatre in 1992 and after 21 years this celebration of ‘the noblest urge bestowed on us’ has returned to its birthplace in Hornchurch. The piece is based upon the Restoration comedy The Country Wife, […]
Happy Days – Ben Freeman is The Fonz
Actor Ben Freeman (best-known for playing Scott Windsor in TV’s Emmerdale) will take on the iconic role of The Fonz in the UK premiere and national tour of Happy Days – A New Musical, alongside Cheryl Baker as Mrs Cunningham and the previously announced Heidi Range as Pinky Tuscadero. Directed and choreographed by Olivier Award […]
Miss Saigon – public booking opens
Public booking for Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s musical Miss Saigon will open at 10am on Monday, 9 September 2013. Miss Saigon will return to the West End on 3 May, 2014 at the Prince Edward Theatre in the musical’s 25th anniversary year, booking for performances through to 25 October. […]
West End Bares – Cafe de Paris
West End Bares presented All the Fun of the Bare at the Café de Paris, London. Although Broadway Bares, the brainchild of veteran Broadway director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell (The Full Monty, Hairspray and now Kinky Boots) has been around in New York for almost 22 years (supporting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS), its London answer West End Bares (raising money for […]
Stalking John Barrowman – Cardiff
Stalking John Barrowman was performed at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Stalking John Barrowman is a new musical by Naomi Chiffi and Jude Garner (book) and Patrick Steed (music and lyrics) that needs to learn that less is sometimes more. Its story is about two unlucky-in-life characters that use their love of John Barrowman to entertain their otherwise mundane […]
