Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape was reviewed at the Little Angel Theatre, London where it continues until 19 July 2026. The tour continues until 1 November 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A bright, charming and entertaining adaptation for children aged five and over.
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Barb Jungr and John McDaniel: The Best of The Beatles and Sting – Crazy Coqs
Barb Jungr and John McDaniel: The Best of The Beatles and Sting at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Barb Jungr: Chanson – Crazy Coqs
Barb Jungr performed Chanson at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Soho Songs – Crazy Coqs
Soho Songs: A new Song Cycle by Barb Jungr & Mike Lindup at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Barb Jungr and Mike Lindup, words and music, have created this poignant homage to the Soho that many of us remember from our youth in the 1970s and 80s. A Soho […]
The Singing Mermaid – Little Angel Theatre
The Singing Mermaid continues at the Little Angel Theatre, London until 24 April 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ If you want charm, theatrical delight and entrancing work for young children, Little Angel Theatre is always the place to go. The Singing Mermaid – exquisite puppets designed by Lyndie Wright who founded […]
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr – Crazy Coqs
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There are two types of people in the world. Some people – some lucky people – meet another while young, fall in love and live a happy life together soundtracked by all […]
There May Be A Castle – Little Angel Theatre
There May Be A Castle continues at the Little Angel Theatre, London until 23 January 2021. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ With its basis in a Piers Torday novel and music by Barb Jungr, this show for 7-11s and their families ought to work well. In the event it falls disappointingly short […]
The Smartest Giant in Town hit musical to tour UK in 2022
The hit family-friendly musical version of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s best-selling picture book The Smartest Giant in Town will take to the road for its first UK tour in 2022. Following a critically-acclaimed run at London’s Little Angel Theatre in the summer, producers Fierylight and Little Angel Theatre will take the crowd-pleasing show on […]
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr – Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr at Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Barb Jungr, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan. Three names that hovered in my musical consciousness. At the peak of the popularity of Dylan and Cohen my musical interests lay in other directions. […]
The Smartest Giant in Town – Little Angel Theatre
The Smartest Giant in Town continues at the Little Angel Theatre, London until 8 August 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This is a sweet and engaging account of the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, probably familiar to every pre-schooler in the room, adapted by Barb Jungr and Samantha […]
Barb Jungr joins forces with The Fourth Choir to release a new song for our troubled times
As the world faces a global pandemic that has altered the way we all interact and lead our lives, Barb Jungr, Britain’s provocative cabaret/jazz artist, is releasing ‘In My Troubled Days’, a timely new song for the strange times we currently find ourselves in. She said: “Last spring John McDaniel and I decided to write […]
CD Review – Float Like a Butterfly – Barb Jungr and John McDaniel
FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY – BARB JUNGR & JOHN McDANIEL (Kristalyn Records – KLCD05) Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ I just know before I even start writing this review that it is going to make me quite unpopular – I just know it, but that is the drawback of reviewing. I’ll start […]
Liver Birds Flying Home – Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Liver Birds Flying Home continues at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool until 12 May 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Last May I reviewed a one-off concert performance of Barb Jungr and Mike Lindup’s Liver Birds Flying Home at the Epstein Theatre, whilst it was in development. On the basis of that […]
Chocolate Cake – Polka Theatre
Chocolate Cake continues at the Polka Theatre, London until 13 May 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Michael Rosen’s Chocolate Cake (to give this 50-minute show its full title) is a scrumptious if slightly bonkers children’s musical at the delightful Polka Theatre which has been doing this sort of thing since […]
Barb Jungr & John McDaniel – Float Like a Butterfly: The Sting Collection – The Pheasantry
Barb Jungr and John McDaniel – Float Like a Butterfly: The Sting Collection at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ In her introduction Barb Jungr has pointed out the hurdles of interpreting a singer-songwriter of near legendary status such as Sting who comes with all the trappings of such fame. […]
Michael Rosen’s Chocolate Cake at the Polka Theatre – cast details
Polka Theatre has announced full casting for its eagerly-anticipated world premiere of the musical version of Michael Rosen’s Chocolate Cake. Previewing from 23 March at the Wimbledon venue, the production, which has been adapted by Polka’s artistic director Peter Glanville and award-winning singer, songwriter and performer Barb Jungr, will run until 13 May. Following the […]
The Singing Mermaid – Underground Studio, Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton
The Singing Mermaid continues at the Underground Studio, Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton until 13 January 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As entertainment for very young children, musical shows don’t get much better than this. A three-man cast, plus vivid lighting, well-delivered sound, catchy melodies, props and a host of […]
Liver Birds Flying Home – concert performance – Epstein Theatre, Liverpool
Liver Birds Flying Home – concert performance – at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s almost half a century since The Liver Birds flew onto the nation’s TV screens in Carla Lane’s long-running sitcom. Now Barb Jungr and Linda McDermott have written a new musical based on […]
Liver Birds musical world premiere – cast revealed
Joanna Monro [pictured] and Lesley Molony will play Carla Lane’s much-loved comic creations in the world premiere in Liverpool of a new musical based on the hit TV series The Liver Birds later this month. The West End veterans who both appeared in Mamma Mia!, will play the iconic roles of Sandra and Beryl, with […]
Musical Liver Birds to make Liverpool debut
Carla Lane’s Liver Birds will take flight in their home city for one night only this month in the world premiere of a new musical based on the hit TV series. The culmination of the show’s first workshop, the exclusive concert presentation of The Liver Birds Flying Home, will play Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre on 30 May. […]
That’s Life – Barb Jungr and John McDaniel – Crazy Coqs
That’s Life – Barb Jungr and John McDaniel at Crazy Coqs, London until 2 July. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The much-travelled Barb Jungr takes the Crazy Coqs into its final month with her unique spin on classic pop before the lovely Piccadilly nightspot changes its name (to Tonight at Zedel), management and scope. She […]
London Festival of Cabaret 2016 – all the details
Full programme details have been announced for this year’s London Festival of Cabaret which will run at various venues across the capital from 22 April until 8 May. Now in its fourth year, the festival, which aims to celebrate the great composers, lyricists and interpreters of popular song, will take place at four host venues: […]
Come Together – Barb Jungr and John McDaniel – St James Theatre Studio
Come Together – Barb Jungr and John McDaniel – continues at the St James Theatre Studio, London until 29 November. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If there were a London cabaret theatre crown, it would rest on Barb Jungr’s head. Her reputation for giving great performances and interpretation of songbooks that […]
Barb Jungr and John McDaniel Beatles show debuts at St James Theatre
Come Together, the new collaboration between two giants of cabaret from both sides of the Atlantic, award-winning vocalist and performer Barb Jungr and Grammy and Emmy winner John McDaniel, will receive its London debut at St James Theatre from 26 to 29 November, following successful runs in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Connecticut and this […]
Dillie Keane in Cabaret – The Pheasantry
Dillie Keane in Cabaret at The Pheasantry, London continues until 14 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s almost a sin that someone with so many talents exists but the wonderful Dillie Keane wears her genius lightly in two hours of pure bliss at The Pheasantry. I don’t know about her dancing, but the founder of […]
London Festival of Cabaret – Kerry Ellis, Janie Dee, Cynthia Erivo and Scott Alan join line-up
The third London Festival of Cabaret (LFoC) runs from 28 April–11 May and in addition to a spectacular list of artists, three prestigious new venues have joined the roster. The Delfont Room, the Sam Wanamaker Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe and Wilton’s Music Hall join the Crazy Coqs, The Pheasantry, St James Studio and Jermyn Street Theatre in offering […]
This Wheel’s On Fire – Barb Jungr – Crazy Coqs
This Wheel’s On Fire: Barb Jungr continues at Crazy Coqs, London, until 4 October. With more than half the 17 songs in Barb Jungr’s new show This Wheel’s On Fire either the work of Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen, this compilation is chiefly a further salute to those two great North American-Jewish wordsmiths whose flame […]
Barb Jungr and Lauren Fox – London Festival of Cabaret
Barb Jungr – Hard Rain at The Jazz Club, Soho/Lauren Fox – Love, Lust, Fear & Freedom at Crazy Coqs, London. The link binding these two shows, seen on consecutive days as part of the three-week London Festival of Cabaret, was the work of the bleak Canadian songwriter-poet Leonard Cohen. Barb Jungr shared “the Rat […]
Feinstein headlines London Festival of Cabaret
London will celebrate all things cabaret in the inaugural London Festival of Cabaret which will see the genre playing in venues across the capital from Tuesday, 22nd October-Friday, 15th November. The festival will give audiences the opportunity to see world-class cabaret acts, newcomers and artists who have never ventured into the world of cabaret before. The London Festival […]
