The British actress Angela Lansbury was known globally as the amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher, but there was a lot more to the famous television star, as Michael Darvell recalls… Angela Lansbury had an 80-year long career in which she captured and captivated her audiences whether they were seeing her live on the dramatic stage, enjoying […]
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‘It is rare that one person can touch multiple generations’: Tributes pour in for Dame Angela Lansbury
Just a few months after the Tony Awards celebrated the glittering career of stage and screen legend Dame Angela Lansbury with a Lifetime Achievement Award the theatre world is mourning her loss. The passing of theatre’s undisputed Grand Dame was announced in a statement issued by the Lansbury family which read: “The children of Dame […]
Summer’s Something Magical in Covent Garden Disney experience launches
Disney fans are getting the chance to get closer to their favourite shows once again with the launch of this year’s Something Magical in Covent Garden campaign. A partnership between Covent Garden and Disney on Stage the Summer Pop-Up Experiences will bring the magic of Disney musicals into the heart of Covent Garden up to […]
Beauty and the Beast – London Palladium
Beauty and the Beast continues at the London Palladium until 17 September 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Stage adaptations of popular Disney movie musicals are an interesting mix. Some are visually spectacular but beyond a few hits lack a memorable score, others feature one great song after another but somehow the creative […]
September date announced for Magic At The Musicals concert
Magic Radio’s popular Magic At The Musicals will return to the Royal Albert Hall on 18 September 2022. Announced by Ronan Keating and Harriet Scott on their Magic Radio breakfast show, tickets for the all-star celebration of the best of musical theatre will be available to buy from the Magic Radio website from 9am on […]
Beauty and the Beast – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Beauty and the Beast runs at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 4 June 2022 and then tours the UK until 8 January 2023 (including a run at the London Palladium from 24 June to 17 September 2022). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ It’s a tale almost as old as time. Disney […]
The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals – A0 Arena, Manchester
The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals at A0 Arena, Manchester, broadcast on BBC1 and BBC Radio 2, also available via BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Close your eyes, listen and you would swear it was Tina Turner belting out ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’, ‘Simply […]
London Palladium season for new Beauty and the Beast
The re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will play a limited season at the London Palladium this summer as part of its successful UK and Ireland tour. After impressing regional audiences and the critics with her performance as Belle, Courtney Stapleton (Six, Dear Evan Hansen) […]
Beauty and The Beast – Rose Theatre, Kingston
Beauty and The Beast continues at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 2 January 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ To craft and create a show that holds equal appeal to every age from eight to 80 requires a special talent and Ciaran McConville’s re-imagining of this famed 18th century French folk […]
Beauty and the Beast – Edinburgh Playhouse and Touring
Beauty and the Beast continues at the Edinburgh Playhouse until 27 November 2021 before touring until November 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ There is a babble and hum of excitement before the lights even dim as the packed audience delights in simply being in a theatre once again. This unique […]
Cast announced for Rose Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast
2020 graduate Amelia Kinu Muus will be the Beauty to Stanton Wright’s Beast in a new version of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames this Christmas. Central School of Speech and Drama graduate Muus whose professional credits in her native Austria include roles in productions […]
Covent Garden to host third Disney Pop-Up Experience
Disney fans will once again get the chance to get closer than ever before to their favourite shows when the film studios’ theatrical arm opens its Summer Pop-Up Experience in the heart of London’s Covent Garden later this month. Located in the historic Carriage Hall on Floral Street, the third Disney on Stage Summer Pop-Up […]
Five Questions With: Ben Stock
For the latest instalment in Musical Theatre Review’s Five Questions With… series, the spotlight falls on director, musical director, actor, cabaret performer and Ugly Sister BEN STOCK. Ben has appeared in musicals and plays in the West End, on tour and in many regional theatres. Favourite roles include Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, […]
Courtney Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo to star in new look Beauty and the Beast on tour
Courtney Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo will take on the title roles in the re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast when the production launches at the Bristol Hippodrome on 24 August 2021. Two of musical theatre’s rising stars Stapleton (Six, Dear Evan Hansen) and Kojo […]
Beauty And The Beast’s Leicester Curve premiere run cancelled and Dublin dates delayed
The Leicester Curve debut of the re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has been shelved due to the ongoing Coronavirus restrictions. Originally planned to open in Leicester in late May before heading for Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in July, the UK and Ireland […]
New look Beauty and the Beast to debut in UK in 2021
A re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will open a UK and Ireland tour at Curve Leicester in May next year. Reuniting the original award-winning creative team led by director Rob Roth, the production will make use of advanced theatrical techniques which were not […]
Howard – Disney Plus
Howard is a Disney+ documentary about American playwright and lyricist Howard Ashman. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ To the younger generation of theatregoers and lovers of Disney animations, Howard Ashman may be little more than a name on the credits of shows like Beauty and The Beast and The Little Shop of Horrors. This full-length […]
Beauty and the Beast: A Musical Parody – King’s Head Theatre
Beauty and the Beast: A Musical Parody continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 17 November 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Fat Rascal’s production of Beauty and the Beast is billed as a musical parody, and parody it certainly does. With a vengeance. It might be more accurate to bill it […]
Beauty and the Beast – movie review
Beauty and the Beast – Star rating: three stars ★★★✩✩ There is, let’s face it, a whole lot to live up to in remaking 1991’s Beauty and the Beast. The second masterpiece of the Disney Renaissance that started with The Little Mermaid, Beauty became the first animated film to receive a nomination for Best Picture at […]
