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Early closing date for re-imagined Aspects of Love

The new West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love will close three months earlier than planned.

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Aspects of Love – Lyric Theatre

Aspects of Love is booking at the Lyric Theatre, London until 11 November 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩

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West End favourite Dave Willetts joins Aspects of Love cast

Dave Willetts will join the cast of the eagerly anticipated new West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love in late May.

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Aspects of Love – full cast and rehearsals begin

The full cast has been unveiled for the eagerly anticipated new West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love as rehearsals begin ahead of the May opening.

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The National Lottery’s Big Night Of Musicals – AO Arena, Manchester

Was there any hankie big enough to disguise the tears when children and adults with learning difficulties, all members of David Stanley’s Music Man Project, joined Michael Ball during The National Lottery’s Big Night Of Musicals at the AO Arena, Manchester?

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More details about The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals

The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals will be broadcast on BBC1 on Saturday 25 March 2023 at 7.50pm. For a second year, the event was held at the AO Arena, Manchester.

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Michael Ball confirms Jamie Bogyo as the new Alex in Aspects of Love

Thirty-four years after Michael Ball starred as Alex in the original West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love, the musical theatre favourite has unveiled Jamie Bogyo as his successor in the role ahead of the new West End production.

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Michael Ball to revisit Aspects of Love in the West End

Michael Ball will return to the West End next year in a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love re-imagined for the 21st century. Reuniting Ball with his director on the 2012 West End revival of Sweeney Todd, Jonathan Kent, the new production will begin performances at the Lyric Theatre on 12 May […]

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CD Review: Musicals, Vol. 1 – Tom Solomon

MUSICALS, VOL. 1 – Tom Solomon (released on 10 December 2021). Take eight of the greatest numbers in musical theatre history and, if the voice is good enough, you can’t really go wrong. Put experienced crossover performer Tom Solomon on their case, get it on the market for Christmas and you have a compilation that […]

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Doing, rather than waiting – An interview with acclaimed producer Katy Lipson (Part Two)

KATY LIPSON is the director of Aria Entertainment, a company which has been at the forefront of reimagining how theatre can operate given our current world of lockdowns and social distancing. Her Park Theatre production of Rags (originally at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre) and Southwark Playhouse production of The Last Five Years have been nominated for six Off-West End Awards […]

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Aspects of Love – Southwark Playhouse

Aspects of Love continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 9 February 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Ably directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, this bijoux revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles Hart’s 1989 show sits rather well in the intimacy of the Southwark Playhouse space configured in the round, […]

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Madalena Alberto and Eleanor Jackson join cast of Aspects of Love London run

Madalena Alberto and Eleanor Jackson will complete the cast for the London transfer of Hope Mill Theatre’s hit version of Aspects of Love early next year. One of the Southwark Playhouse’s final productions at its current Newington Causeway site, the London run of Aspects of Love will star most of those who appeared in the […]

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Southwark Playhouse run for Hope Mill’s Aspects of Love plus new musicals Stay Awake, Jake & Benjamin Button feature in 2019 season

Hope Mill Theatre’s hit version of Aspects of Love, and the world premiere of a musical based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, will be among the Southwark Playhouse’s final productions to play the Playhouse’s current London site. Due to take up residence in two purpose-built new theatre spaces in late […]

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Flowers for Mrs Harris – Chichester Festival Theatre

Flowers for Mrs Harris continues at Chichester Festival Theatre until 29 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Daniel Evans’ farewell production at The Crucible, Sheffield before taking over as Chichester’s artistic director was the staging of this new British musical, based on the 1958 novella by Paul Gallico. Rachel Wagstaff […]

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Hope Mill Theatre’s Aspects of Love – cast and creatives revealed

Olivier Award nominees and West End regulars will take to the stage alongside newcomers making their professional debuts in the cast for the eagerly-anticipated intimate revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love at Manchester’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre. Hope Mill favourite Jonathan O’Boyle (Hair, Pippin) will return to direct the ten-strong company in the […]

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New London Theatre to be re-named the Gillian Lynne Theatre

Andrew Lloyd Webber has announced the New London Theatre will become the first West End venue to be named after a woman and a choreographer when it is re-branded the Gillian Lynne Theatre. The composer and impresario revealed the news while in conversation with Graham Norton at a special event at the New London Theatre […]

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Hope Mill Theatre and Aria Entertainment reveal first shows for 2018

The world premiere of new British musical The Toyboy Diaries will be the first of three in-house productions in early 2018 from the highly successful partnership between Manchester’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre and London arts producer Aria Entertainment. Running from 18 January until 10 February, The Toyboy Diaries was announced as part of a 2018 […]

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Interview – rising star Ellie Bamber having a ball in High Society at the Old Vic

ELLIE BAMBER is the rising star who plays the role of 14-year-old Dinah Lord in Maria Friedman’s effervescent revival of Cole Porter’s High Society at The Old Vic (opening tonight, Thursday 14 May). Ellie made her screen debut at the age of 15 alongside Martin Clunes in the ITV drama A Mother’s Son, having earlier appeared on stage […]

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