You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 14 January 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The perfect charming diversion for these chilly and busy winter months.
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Top 10 musicals to look out for at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023
It’s great to see that there is a bumper number of musical theatre shows to savour this year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Below, Musical Theatre Review’s Edinburgh Editor Fiona Orr offers her Top Ten Tips. Follow Musical Theatre Review to keep up with the latest reviews, news and, of course, the nominees for our Best Musical Award on 19 August 2023.
New York concert date for updated John & Jen
Rachel Tucker and Lewis Cornay will reprise their performances in the new, updated version of Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald’s John & Jen in New York early next month. Presented by Bray Productions and with Lippa also serving as musical director, the special concert performance at leading cabaret venue 54 Below on 9 February 2023 […]
John & Jen – Southwark Playhouse
John & Jen continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 21 August 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Composer Andrew Lippa is now better known for full-scale musicals from The Wild Party and Big Fish to The Addams Family, but the small chamber musical John & Jen, revived in a new production at the Southwark Playhouse, […]
Full cast for The Addams Family UK and Ireland tour
Full casting has been confirmed for the new UK and Ireland touring production of The Addams Family, A Musical Comedy which is due to open in Woking next month. Scott Paige (Nativity! UK tour, Eugenius! The Other Palace) will take on the role of Uncle Fester and Ahmed Hamad (Rent, Hope Mill Theatre, The Boy […]
The Addams Family musical to tour again in 2020
Morticia and Gomez will be taking their creepy and kooky brood on the road again in 2020 in a new touring production of The Addams Family musical. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and Music & Lyrics Limited, the 2020 UK and Ireland tour will be directed by Matthew White (The Producers, Mr Stink […]
CD Review: The Man In The Ceiling – Studio Cast Recording
THE MAN IN THE CEILING – Studio Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records – CD and download) Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The artwork for this CD put a smile on my face and it remained there for the entirety of the album. The Man in the Ceiling is based on the 1995 graphic […]
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 […]
Big Fish – The Other Palace
Big Fish continues at The Other Palace until 31 December. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Few stories cry out for a musical adaptation more than Daniel Wallace’s 1998 novel – and Tim Burton’s 2003 movie – Big Fish. It’s a whopper of a tale, recounted as a series of fantastical flashbacks […]
Clare Burt completes Big Fish cast at The Other Palace
Clare Burt will join the previously announced Kelsey Grammer in the London premiere production of John August and Andrew Lippa’s quirky romance Big Fish The Musical. Directed by Nigel Harman, the production – which will mark Frasier favourite Grammer’s London stage debut – will play The Other Palace from 1 November until 31 December with a […]
Kelsey Grammer to star in Big Fish the Musical at The Other Palace
Kelsey Grammer will star as Edward Bloom in a new production of John August and Andrew Lippa’s Big Fish the Musical. Based on the novel Big Fish by Daniel Wallace and the Columbia Pictures film screenplay by John August, this new production will be the London premiere of the musical and also marks Grammer’s first […]
The Addams Family – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
The Addams Family continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 20 May and tours the UK until 4 November 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s gloriously ghoulish musical take on The Addams Family is enjoying its UK professional premiere with a tour that […]
Cameron Blakely joins The Addams Family on tour
Cameron Blakely has joined the cast for the touring production of The Addams Family musical which will debut in the UK next year. The actor, whose previous credits include a two-year stint as Thenardier in Les Misérables in the West End, will play Gomez, the head of the distinctively creepy and kooky Addams Family opposite […]
The Addams Family – Carrie Hope Fletcher, Samantha Womack and Les Dennis cast
Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher will star as Morticia, Fester and Wednesday Addams in the UK and Irish premiere of The Addams Family, a musical comedy, with book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, based on the characters created by Charles Addams. Further casting is to be […]
John & Jen – Union Theatre, London
John & Jen continues at the Union Theatre, London until 17 September. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Sibling rivalry and solidarity lie at the heart of John & Jen, a two-person musical with songs by Andrew Lippa and lyrics by Tom Greenwald, with a book by Lippa and Greenwald. Starting with […]
The Addams Family musical to tour the UK and Ireland in 2017
The creepy and kooky The Addams Family musical will debut in the UK next year when a major new touring production opens at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. Directed by Matthew White (The Producers UK tour) the UK and Irish premiere of the show, which has a book by the creators of the multi-award winning Jersey Boys (Marshall […]
John & Jen – Clurman Theatre, New York
John & Jen continues at The Clurman Theatre, New York, until 4 April. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ Sibling co-dependency gets the spotlight if not much examination in John & Jen, an Off-Broadway musical from 1995 now receiving an appreciative revival, courtesy of the Keen Company, one of the many smaller not-for-profit producing groups that dot […]
ArtsEd London – The Addams Family
The Addams Family is performed by ArtsEd third years at the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, London until 7 February. Star rating: 3 stars *** There’s a saying in racing, “You can’t go without the horse”, which means that however wonderful a jockey you are, if the beast you’re riding is a selling-plater you aren’t going to […]
Preview – Tony winners aplenty in Off-Broadway season
Ron Cohen previews an Off-Broadway season packed with Broadway names. As is its custom, Off-Broadway is moving into the New Year with an eclectic array of musical offerings, packed with both revivals and new creations. Some boast prestigious names – including a batch of Tony winners from Broadway – and some are quite curious indeed. Here are some highlights […]
The Addams Family – A New Musical – Guildford School of Acting
The Addams Family – A New Musical was performed by third-year BA Musical Theatre students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. The Addams Family has enjoyed several incarnations subsequent to Charles Addams’ original cartoons for The New Yorker: Gomez, Morticia, and their kinsfolk have been the subjects of ABC’s […]
The Life of the Party – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Life of the Party – A Celebration of the Songs of Andrew Lippa continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 14 June. As a composer, Andrew Lippa seems to specialise in adaptations that don’t immediately stand out as obvious musical theatre material. Alongside his most well-known and successful work, the Tony-nominated The Addams […]
John & Jen The Musical – The Star Inn, Guildford
John & Jen The Musical continues at The Back Room of The Star Inn, Guildford until 17 May. Guildford Fringe Theatre Company commenced its 2014 season in style with John & Jen The Musical, a rarely performed two-person show by Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald and one of musical theatre’s many hidden gems. Originally playing […]
Menier Chocolate Factory celebrate songs of Andrew Lippa
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents The Life of the Party – A Celebration of the Songs of Andrew Lippa from 27 May to 14 June (press night is 30 May). The exciting Broadway composer and lyricist will be accompanied by Caroline O’Connor, Damian Humbley and Summer Strallen in a unique concert performance of songs from some of […]
Andrew Lippa in Concert – St James Theatre
Andrew Lippa in Concert at the St James Theatre, London. The name Andrew Lippa is not one that a large percentage of UK theatregoers in the UK will have heard of, although some may have seen his most famous show – the lavish The Addams Family – on Broadway back in 2010. More recently, in September […]
