The National Youth Music Theatre a three-week summer residency at The Other Palace will include a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s award winning Beautiful Game. Running from 15-18 August 2018, the musical set during ‘The Troubles’ in Belfast in 1969 will feature Jasper Britton, the NYMT alumnus who spoke the first lines […]
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A Little Princess – Royal Festival Hall
A Little Princess at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: two stars ★★✩✩✩ Andrew Lippa’s adaptation of A Little Princess makes its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in a one-off concert performance. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s original 1905 novel, the evening plays out in suitably quaint fashion, with plucky young Sara (Jasmine Sakyiama) being lovingly […]
Rebecca Trehearn, Adam J Bernard and Alexia Khadime join A Little Princess cast
Olivier award winners Rebecca Trehearn (Show Boat) and Adam J Bernard (Dreamgirls) and Wicked’s Alexia Khadime are the latest star names to be added to the cast of the UK premiere production of Andrew Lippa’s musical version of Francis Hodgson Burnett’s much-loved novel A Little Princess. Joining the previously announced Sherlock star Amanda Abbington and […]
Arlene Phillips launches open casting call for young actresses to star in A Little Princess
Multi award-winning director and choreographer Arlene Phillips is launching a search for ten child stars ahead of the UK premiere of Andrew Lippa’s musical A Little Princess. Open auditions will be held in London on Sunday (25 March) to find young actresses to appear in the semi-staged concert performance of the show at the Southbank Centre […]
Marc Folan, an English composer in New York – with A Little Princess
A major event in the career of British composer/lyricist Marc Folan has just taken place – his musical A Little Princess has had its professional US premiere, opening Off-Broadway at the Hudson Guild Theatre. Not only that, but an additional run has just been announced at a larger, more central space, the Alice Griffin Jewel Box […]
