Musical theatre producing powerhouse Chichester Festival Theatre will take on Lerner and Loewe’s sublime My Fair Lady as the centrepiece of the venue’s 2026 season
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‘Thank you for all your wonderful gifts to the world’: John Yap pays tribute to Broadway composer Charles Strouse
John Yap, founder of international record company JAY Records, pays tribute to his friend and collaborator, the award-winning composer Charles Strouse.
My Fair Lady will be Curve’s Christmas 2024 musical
Leicester Curve’s musical Christmas present this year will be a new production of Lerner and Loewe’s timeless My Fair Lady.
Music Review: My Fair Lady – Complete Recording
My Fair Lady (Jay Records, CDJAY2 1277) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Jay Records CD which, incidentally won the Gramophone magazine’s award for Best Musical Theatre, is welcome as a more or less complete record of the show. Not only does it contain all the songs and incidental music for the dance ensembles, but it also has a bonus track of ‘Come to the Ball’, a song much liked by Lerner himself, that was cut from the show out of town before the original production hit Broadway.
Camelot – London Palladium
Camelot at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This concert version of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot from London Musical Theatre Orchestra was staged to mark the centenary of Alan Jay Lerner’s birth in October 1918, though it seems like yesterday that he was with us, having settled in London in later […]
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever – Irish Repertory Theatre, New York
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever continues at the Irish Repertory Theatre, New York until 12 August 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a tough show to reproduce. One big reason: its leading role was created specifically for a one-of-a-kind Broadway […]
My Fair Lady – Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont, New York
My Fair Lady continues at Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont, New York. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ Another week, another sumptuous revival of a sumptuous classic musical. That’s the story out of New York this spring. Right on the heels of the opening of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel comes Lincoln Center’s fantastical mounting of […]
Paint Your Wagon – Encores! – New York City Center
Paint Your Wagon – an Encores! production – continues at New York City Center until 22 March. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ After Brigadoon but before My Fair Lady and Camelot, the team of book-and-lyric writer Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe explored some Americana in Paint Your Wagon, set during the California Gold Rush […]
Gigi heads for Broadway with April opening
Another blast has been added to the barrage of Broadway musicals opening in April. The newest entry is Gigi, a revival coming from the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Set to play in Washington until 12 February, the production has Vanessa Hudgens in the title role, a young independent-spirit Belle Époque Parisienne, who breaks […]
Liz Robertson Sings Her Favourite Songs
Reviewed at The Crazy Coqs, London. Forty years on from making her showbiz bow as a cabaret dancer at the nearby Savoy Hotel, the ageless Liz Robertson is back in cabaret mode for her one-woman show at The Crazy Coqs, the new go-to Piccadilly nightspot for lovers of the genre which becomes ever more polished […]
