A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, performed by London School of Musical Theatre students at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★★★★☆ Sondheim is notoriously tricky, farce is notoriously tricky. So put them together and the resultant musical in the wrong hands can be an accident waiting to happen. At […]
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The Frogs at Jermyn Street Theatre – exclusive gallery of images
The 2004 Broadway re-working of Stephen Sondheim’s quirky musical comedy The Frogs, presented by House on the Hill Productions, continues at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre until 8 April. Here’s an exclusive gallery of production images from Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan. With a book revised and expanded by Nathan Lane, based on Sondheim and Burt Shevelove’s original […]
The Frogs – Jermyn Street Theatre
The Frogs continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 8 April. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Stephen Sondheim was on a roll when he wrote the music and lyrics for The Frogs in 1974; his three previous shows, Company, Follies and A Little Night Music, coming during his most fertile […]
Sondheim musical The Frogs has UK premiere at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2017
The latest Broadway version of the rarely-performed Stephen Sondheim musical The Frogs, a send-up of Greek comedy and satire, with a book revised and expanded by Nathan Lane, is to get its UK premiere in 2017 at Jermyn Street Theatre (press nights are 16 and 17 March). The Frogs is loosely based on a comedy written in […]
