The Prom, out now in cinemas and on Netflix. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Corny, cheesy, schmaltzy, unsubtle, totally predictable… call it all the names you like but the bottom line is that The Prom works and is just the feelgood pick-me-up we need at this gloomy time. The movie, with a glitzy […]
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Stage version of TV show Smash in development
Superstar filmmaker Steven Spielberg will follow his eagerly-anticipated big screen re-working of West Side Story by making his debut as a lead producer on a Broadway musical with the stage version of hit TV show Smash. Spielberg is part of the high-powered team of producers (with Neil Meron and Robert Greenblatt) who developed the original […]
The Prom – Longacre Theatre, New York
The Prom continues at the Longacre Theatre, New York. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ “Straight people like Broadway, too,” says Mr. Hawkins, the very straight, very theatre-loving high school principal in a very small Indiana town. “You know I’ve heard that,” responds Dee Dee Allen, the fading Broadway star, who is […]
Kimberley Walsh and Ben Forster cast in Elf musical
Ben Forster, Kimberley Walsh, Joe McGann and Jessica Martin will star in the London premiere of Elf, the hit musical at the Dominion Theatre from 24 October 2015 for a strictly limited ten-week season, ending on 2 January 2016, with a press night on Thursday 5 November. Forster, McGann and Martin all starred in the sold-out […]
Elf the musical has London premiere at Dominion in October
Following the sold-out UK and Ireland premieres in Plymouth and Dublin in December 2014, ELF the musical will receive its London premiere at the Dominion Theatre from 24 October 2015 for a strictly limited ten-week season, ending on 2 January 2016, with a press night on Thursday 5 November. Based on the beloved 2003 New […]
