BABY – music by David Shire, lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr, book by Sybille Ann Pearson, based on a story developed with Susan Yankowitz (Yellowsound Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Baby – Drayton Arms Theatre, London
Baby continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 9 November 2018. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ The musical theatre composing duo Maltby and Shire are best known for the 1989 revue Closer Than Ever, a song cycle with looks at all stages of love and romance. The composers described that […]
Performance Preparation Academy – Baby
Baby, performed by Performance Preparation Academy at Bellerby Studio Theatre, Guildford. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Baby is a Maltby and Shire musical nominated for two Tonys in a modest Broadway run in 1984 but clearly regarded as too full of American schmaltz to make a successful transfer to the West End. It […]
Richard Maltby Jr – Closer Than Ever still brings surprises
Lyricist and director Richard Maltby, Jr. has been in London to direct a revised version of his Off-Broadway hit, Closer Than Ever (written with long-time collaborator David Shire) which has received its European premiere at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre. With Shire, Maltby, Jr. has also written lyrics for Starting Here, Starting Now, Baby, Closer Than Ever and the musical […]
Liz Callaway – Crazy Coqs
An Evening with Liz Callaway at the Crazy Coqs, London, continues until 1 February. Just when everybody thought the evening was going like clockwork, Broadway star Liz Callaway ‘forgot’ her lines in the ridiculously fast ‘Another 100 People’ and had the first night Crazy Coqs audience gasping in surprise and sympathy as the Sondheim classic […]
