Cynthia Erivo: Legendary Voices was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London as part of the BBC Proms. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ There was a sense, I think, among London theatregoers that when Cynthia Erivo moved to New York to star in the Broadway transfer of The Color Purple that we might have lost to America for […]
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TV Review: The Golden Age of Broadway / BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
The Golden Age of Broadway: BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There was something for everyone in the musical feast laid on by the BBC Concert Orchestra and five top-drawer vocalists for a packed Royal Albert Hall in celebration of the Great American Songbook. […]
The Warner Brothers Story – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
The Warner Brothers Story at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ John Wilson celebrated The Warner Brothers Story by giving us a matinee and an evening performance of the studio’s musical attainments to a packed Royal Albert Hall. It can have been no easy job […]
On the Town – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
On the Town at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There was a buzz in the air at the Royal Albert Hall because the audience attending a John Wilson concert know what’s in store and they were not disappointed. It was a celebratory […]
BBC Proms to mark Bernstein centenary
This year’s BBC Proms will celebrate the centenary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein with performances of West Side Story and On the Town this summer. John Wilson will conduct the performance of the classic Romeo & Juliet-inspired story which will feature West End star Sierra Boggess as Maria and Broadway star Ross Lekites as […]
Oklahoma! – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
Oklahoma! at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Few titles deserve their exclamation mark more than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The score sounds as fresh as it did when it was written in 1943 and at this semi-staged performance there might have been folk […]
