Betty Blue Eyes continues at the Union Theatre, London until 22 April 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
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London revival of Betty Blue Eyes – the full cast
Casting has been announced for the first London revival of Betty Blue Eyes ahead of its debut at the Union Theatre later this month.
Union Theatre to stage first London revival of Betty Blue Eyes
The first London revival of Betty Blue Eyes will also be the first in-house production at the Union Theatre since Covid. Running from 29 March until 22 April 2023, the royal-themed musical comedy will provide the perfect prelude to the King’s coronation.
Pimlico Opera’s next production at HMP Bronzefield will be Betty Blue Eyes
After 32 months off for good behaviour (and Covid), musical theatre goes back to jail next month with Pimlico Opera’s production of Betty Blue Eyes at HMP Bronzefield at Ashford, Surrey.
Pimlico Opera HMP Bronzefield Betty Blue Eyes
Guildford School of Acting – Betty Blue Eyes
Betty Blue Eyes is performed by students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Theatre, Guildford. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Not everyone knows but Kylie Minogue once played a pig, not any old pig but Betty Blue Eyes, the adorable porcine heroine of the George Stiles and Anthony Drewe […]
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance – Betty Blue Eyes
Betty Blue Eyes was performed by Trinity Laban Musical Theatre students at Stratford Circus, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Betty Blue Eyes is set in the post war austerity of 1947 at the time of Princess Elizabeth’s marriage to Prince Philip. Meat is severely rationed and people are pretty fed up. Then some local bigwigs […]
Remembering Ann Emery, stalwart performer on TV’s Rentaghost and onstage as Grandma in Billy Elliot
Remembering ANN EMERY (12 March 1930 to 29 September 2016), stalwart performer on TV’s Rentaghost and on stage as Grandma in Billy Elliot, plus many other shows. Born in London in 1930, actress Ann Emery was the half sister of comedy actor Dick Emery. Ann mainly worked on television and in stage musicals, her most celebrated appearances being on […]
Ann Emery – Billy Elliot’s original Grandma – dies at 86
Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry has led the tributes to the much-loved actress Ann Emery who has died at the age of 86. A veteran stage and screen actress who began her career as a child actor with a talent for tap dancing in a production of Babes in the Wood at the Lyric Hammersmith, […]
Anything Can Happen – St James Theatre
A workshop presentation of Anything Can Happen, a revue celebrating the songs of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, took place at the St James Theatre, London. Composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe have been creating musicals together for 30 years now. So a revue which aims to catalogue those three decades in a two-hour […]
Daniel Boys and Lauren Samuels star in Stiles and Drewe revue Anything Can Happen
West End performers Annalene Beechey, Daniel Boys, James Gillan and Lauren Samuels will star in the exclusive workshop presentation of the new musical revue Anything Can Happen! – celebrating the diverse repertoire of the Olivier Award-winning British writing team George Stiles and Anthony Drewe – on Friday 25 July at 1.30pm at the St James Theatre. Anything Can Happen! has been specifically created […]
Betty Blue Eyes – Mercury Theatre, Colchester and Touring
Betty Blue Eyes continues at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and then tours until 2 August. Fancy some apple sauce? Betty Blue Eyes is a nostalgia show really, a throwback, as you might expect of anything touched by the pen of Alan Bennett. Not, perhaps, for the young crowd. Yet anyone could enjoy it. It’s a […]
Amy Booth-Steel can’t wait for Betty Blue Eyes
Fresh from her success as Piper in The Light Princess at the National Theatre, actress Amy Booth-Steel is playing determined social-climber Joyce Chilvers in the brand new touring co-production of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe’s musical comedy Betty Blue Eyes, opening at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester this week. Based on Alan Bennett’s screenplay for the film A Private Function, […]
The Threepenny Opera leads New Wolsey Theatre season
The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich’s season for spring 2014, which goes on general sale on Saturday 16 November, features four musicals. The Threepenny Opera is a New Wolsey’s co-production of Brecht and Weill’s musical masterpiece with Nottingham Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Graeae Theatre Company (12–22 March). Familiar faces from Our House and Reasons […]
