Following 15 months at the Shaftesbury Theatre and a year at the Garrick Theatre, the producers of Rock of Ages the Musical have announced it is to close on 2 November 2013, prior to embarking on a UK national tour. Rock of Ages the Musical opened on 31 August 2011 at the Shaftesbury Theatre and went onto […]
Maury Yeston and Titanic
The 1997 musical version of the Titanic story has finally reached London in a new chamber staging at the Southwark Playhouse. Michael Darvell meets the show’s composer and lyricist Maury Yeston. It may be more than 100 years since the Titanic sank, losing some 1,500 lives, but the disaster still fascinates the general public, […]
Edinburgh Fringe – Musicals Update Two
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013 is up and running, here’s the second of a number of updates about musicals and cabarets being staged at the international event. Get Got 1–26 August (not 13), C too (Venue 4) Presented by Janski Productions, Get Got is an American satire that allows audiences to be immersed in a […]
Dreamboats and Petticoats – Wimbledon Theatre
Dreamboats and Petticoats was reviewed at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London, before continuing touring until 30 November. Originally staged at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, Dreamboats and Petticoats has deservedly established a reputation – through its tours and West End productions – for being a rattling good night out. Written as may be by celebrated comedy writers Laurence […]
Edinburgh Fringe – Musicals Update One
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013 is up and running, here’s the first of a number of updates about musicals and cabarets being staged at the international event. The Road to Qatar! 1–26 August (not 13), C Too – Main House (Venue 4). Josh Rochford and James Robert-Moore lead a young cast in the European premiere of […]
Titanic the Musical – Southwark Playhouse
Titanic the Musical continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 31 August. Director Thom Southerland has created a wonder again with this first-class European premiere of a new chamber version of the Tony Award-winning show Titanic the Musical. In an age of overblown musicals based on movies which are slavishly faithful to their Hollywood models, it is […]
Kim Criswell – Cadogan Hall
Kim Criswell performed A Celebration of the Music of Cole Porter at the Cadogan Hall, London. With the temperature in my train reaching 34c, I was thinking it was ‘Too Darn Hot’ to spend the evening at the Cadogan Hall for the first of three From West End to Broadway’ diva concerts, even it was to hear […]
Rauch is Phantom of the Opera in cast change
Major cast changes will take place in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre in the West End from 2 September this year. Fresh from his success as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables at the Queen’s Theatre, Geronimo Rauch will join the cast as the Phantom. At the same time, […]
Siobhan Dillon joins Cabaret touring cast
Actress Siobhan Dillon will join the cast of the forthcoming UK tour of Cabaret as the iconic Sally Bowles, opposite singer/songwriter Will Young in his award-nominated performance as the Emcee. Siobhan Dillon was a popular finalist on the BBC’s hit show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Following Maria, she won a record deal with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group and […]
Sophie-Louise Dann – Crazy Coqs
Sophie-Louise Dann performed From Classic… to Coward… to Current at the Crazy Coqs, London. Sophie-Louise Dann was recently seen in Ivor Novello’s Gay’s the Word at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre and has just finished a run of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. She is well known […]
The Witches of Eastwick – Watermill, Bagnor
The Witches of Eastwick continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 14 September. For those with expectations based on the acclaimed 1987 film of The Witches of Eastwick, there are strong parallels to be drawn with the three superb leading lady performances in this production at the Watermill. For those with mixed feelings who caught John Dempsey […]
Stefan Bednarczyk – Crazy Coqs
Stefan Bednarczyk performed Bednarczyk Sings Noel Coward at the Crazy Coqs, London. Actor, musical director and cabaret performer Stefan Bednarczyk’s new show Bednarczyk Sings Noel Coward, wich premiered at the Crazy Coqs, included songs, verse and anecdotes from people who knew and worked with Coward, including Graham Payn and the late critic Sheridan Morley. Starting with the question ‘Why […]
