Cool Rider was reviewed at the London Palladium. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Following some recent concert production misfires, it was hugely impressive seeing the Cool Rider creative team getting this one right. This is how you deliver a concert.
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Newsfeed: London encore for touring Wizard of Oz, Beverley Knight records new Sister Act single, 42 Balloons EP released
The UK and Ireland tour of Leicester Curve’s hit production of The Wizard of Oz will conclude its crowd-pleasing UK and Ireland tour with an encore season in London this summer.
‘Wicked’ witches support the launch of the Make a Difference Trust’s Emergency Assistance Fund
To support Make A Difference Trust’s Emergency Assistance Fund, 23 West End actresses who have played Elphaba or Glinda in the multi-award-winning hit musical Wicked have joined together to perform a stunning rendition of the show’s ‘For Good’. Inspired by their close friends at Broadway Cares, the Make A Difference Trust’s has revived and repurposed […]
Nativity! The Musical – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Nativity! The Musical continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 10 November 2019 and then tours until 29 December (including a run at London’s Eventim Apollo Theatre from 11-29 December). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Despite the autumnal weather, Christmas has arrived sparkling and shining to the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury. Joyous Nativity! […]
Nativity! The Musical – Eventim Apollo London
Nativity! The Musical continues at Eventim Apollo London until 29 December 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ An excitable buzz outside and inside the venue at the gala performance of this eagerly-awaited celebrity-laden production more than hinted this was going to be something pretty special. Spectacular and hugely entertaining, it’s a […]
Danny Dyer & Jo Brand to star in Nativity! The Musical in London
Danny Dyer will star as Hollywood Producer and Jo Brand as The Critic in the London run of Nativity! The Musical at the Eventim Apollo, from 19 to 31 December. Jo Brand will also star as The Critic when the show heads to the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh from 28 November to 2 December. Dyer is currently best known for his […]
Vanities – The Musical – Trafalgar Studios
Vanities – The Musical continues at Trafalgar Studios, London until 1 October. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Trafalgar Studios hosts a brilliant trio of women giving new life to Jack Heifner’s award-winning play Vanities. Premiering in New York in the late 1970s, the play became an international success, only avoiding the London stages because […]
Vanities musical has European debut at Trafalgar Studios
This autumn, Lauren Samuels (Bend it Like Beckham, BBC’s Over the Rainbow, Grease), Ashleigh Gray (Wicked, Cool Rider) and Lizzy Connolly (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Xanadu) star in the European debut of Vanities. The brand new production, which plays at London’s Trafalgar Studios from 1 September to 1 October) features never before seen material with all […]
Stuart Matthew Price Sings The Songbook of Schwartz – St James Theatre Studio
Stuart Matthew Price Sings The Songbook of Schwartz at St James Theatre Studio, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The talented Stuart Matthew Price treated us to the second opus of his own songbook series at St James Studio, this time celebrating the work of Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz after paying tribute to […]
Artists’ agency Jewell Wright celebrates its first decade in business
Leading artists’ agency Jewell Wright is celebrating its first decade in the business of representing stage, screen and radio performers. Founder Jimmy first met his business partner Neal Wright in 1999 in the first year of the hit show Mamma Mia! in which Wright created the role of Pepper, and the pair have worked closely […]
CD Review – Cool Rider – Original Studio Recording
COOL RIDER – Original Studio Recording (Featuring: Ashleigh Gray, Aaron Sidwell, Reece Sheersmith, Niki Evans, Mark Anderson, Bronté Barbé, Daniel Buckley, Joshua Dowen, Lucinda Lawrence, Hannah Levane and Niall Sheehy). When Cool Rider screeched into the West End last year, the popularity of the event took even the producers by surprise. Already big fans of the original movie, […]
All the news from the Cool Rider CD launch
Earlier this week saw the launch of the original studio recording of Cool Rider. For musical theatre aficionados, Cool Rider is the reworking of the movie Grease 2 for a concert staging, which gained much critical and commercial success last April at the Duchess Theatre. The brainchild of producers Christopher D Clegg and James DP […]
Wicked – Liverpool Empire and touring
Wicked runs at the Liverpool Empire until 11 October before touring until 25 July 2015. A little over a year ago, Wicked embarked on its first ever UK and Ireland tour and now the musical is playing to capacity crowds at the 2,400 seater Empire Theatre in Liverpool. It’s not hard to see why, the show has won awards wherever it has […]
Wicked – Ashleigh Gray is new tour Elphaba, Nikki Davis-Jones joins London cast
Ashleigh Gray (Elphaba), Samuel Edwards (Fiyero), Steven Pinder (The Wizard and Doctor Dillamond), Richard Vincent (Boq) and Jacqueline Hughes (Standby Elphaba) will join the record-breaking UK tour of Wicked from 16 September 2014 at Liverpool Empire Theatre. Current cast members Nikki Davis-Jones (Elphaba), Liam Doyle (Fiyero), Dale Rapley (The Wizard and Doctor Dillamond), George Ure […]
Cool Rider – Duchess Theatre
Cool Rider continues at the Duchess Theatre, London until 19 April. The idea for Cool Rider stems from one of the most precarious concepts in film or theatre history – the musical sequel. With the huge success of the film adaptation of Grease, Paramount Pictures immediately set about commissioning a series of sequels. The first […]
Cool Rider to have a week’s run at the Duchess
Following the reception to the concert Cool Rider and two sell-out performances at the Lyric Theatre, the cult musical sequel will return to the West End and the Duchess Theatre from 15–19 April 2014 (press night is 16 April). The film Grease 2 told the love story of two unlikely lovers and their road to […]
Cool Rider arrives at the Lyric
Cool Rider – formerly entitled Grease 2 in Concert – plays two performances today (Monday 27 January) at the West End’s Lyric Theatre. Joining Reece Shearsmith as biology teacher Mr Stuart, Ashleigh Gray as Stephanie, Aaron Sidwell as Michael, Hannah LeVane as Paulette and Niall Sheehy as Johnny are Bronté Barbe, Nadine Cox, Joshua Dowen, Evelyn Hoskins, Kane […]
