Broadway loves celebrating its anniversaries and, hot on the heels of the 50th for Chicago, the wonderful A Chorus Line reached that landmark.
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Digital series The Theatre Channel returns with episode six
Kerry Ellis (Wicked, We Will Rock You), Danny Mac (Sunset Boulevard, Pretty Woman The Musical) and Layton Williams (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Rent) are among the star performers to feature in the next instalment in the popular pay-to-stream musical theatre flavoured web series, The Theatre Channel. Ellis performs ‘Always Starting Over’ from If/Then, while Mac […]
Dancing up a storm – Remembering Bob Avian
BOB AVIAN, the celebrated director, producer and choreographer, has died at the age of 83. Famed for his work on major productions of A Chorus Line, Ballroom, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, Follies, Sunset Boulevard and The Witches of Eastwick, he had become something of a Broadway legend. Michael Darvell looks back over a long and […]
Miss Saigon – Prince Edward Theatre
Miss Saigon continues at the Prince Edward Theatre, London (booking until 25 April, 2015). The familiar heart-thudding beats of a helicopter herald the dramatic opening of a new production of Miss Saigon that is every bit as powerful and thrilling as the original show was 25 years ago. The Prince Edward Theatre, now beautifully refurbished, […]
London’s A Chorus Line closes in August
Producers have today announced that the revival of A Chorus Line at the London Palladium will close on Saturday, 31st August. Plans are currently being finalised for a European tour which will give audiences in Germany, Holland, France and beyond the chance to see the London production, prior to a UK tour beginning in autumn […]
Miss Saigon set for the Prince Edward
Cameron Mackintosh has finally revealed that the Boublil and Schonberg musical Miss Saigon will return to the West End in May 2014 to the Prince Edward Theatre. He said: “I find it hard to believe that it is already 25 years since I first premiered Miss Saigon in London at Drury Lane Theatre before it went on to phenomenal success around the world. “Ten […]
