A Christmas Story The Musical continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 22 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A Christmas Story is an ageing but well-loved family film. In the 35 years since the original film’s release, it has been shown on television countless times. This musical rendition, with score and […]
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Pasek & Paul’s A Christmas Story to receive European premiere at Waterloo East
Waterloo East has won the battle to stage the European premiere of Pasek and Paul’s Broadway hit A Christmas Story The Musical. After acquiring the rights for the show which features music and lyrics by the already multi-award-winning team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the London venue has spent months working with the original […]
Hope Mill’s last two shows of 2018 are The Return of the Soldier and A Christmas Story
British musical The Return of the Soldier and the UK premiere of Broadway hit A Christmas Story The Musical will be the final two in-house productions in 2018 from the highly successful partnership between Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre and London arts producer Aria Entertainment. Charles Miller and Tim Sanders’ musical adaptation of Rebecca West’s novella […]
America’s Fox channel plans Rent and A Christmas Story broadcasts
US broadcaster Fox is challenging rival network NBC’s reputation as the TV home of live musical theatre by lining up two new pieces of event programming. A major new production of Jonathan Larson’s innovative musical Rent and a version of A Christmas Story with new songs written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will follow on […]
Pasek and Paul give first UK interview in run-up to European premiere of Dogfight
Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul give Musical Theatre Review their first UK interview in the run-up to the European premiere of their show Dogfight, opening this coming Wednesday 13 August at London’s Southwark Playhouse. Since meeting at the University of Michigan where they were working on their Musical Theatre degrees, songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have continued to […]
