The lights on Broadway were dimmed last night in memory of Harold Prince, the multi award-winning director and producer who died at the age of 91 yesterday (31 July 2019) A true Broadway legend, Harold Prince wove his magic on the Great White Way for decades, working with many of the greats and winning 21 […]
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Candide – Cadogan Hall
Candide was performed by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra and Chorus at Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Leonard Bernstein’s bonkers operetta inspired by Voltaire’s Candide received the one-night-only LMTO treatment at Cadogan Hall and it proved to be a glittering affair, reaffirming the London Musical Theatre Orchestra as […]
James Dreyfus joins LMTO’s Candide in concert
Screen and stage actor James Dreyfus has stepped up to take on the role of Pangloss in the London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s upcoming concert presentation of Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler’s Candide. The star of hit TV shows Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and The Thin Blue Line will return to the role of outrageously optimistic Pangloss […]
LMTO 2017 season – Mack & Mabel and A Christmas Carol complete line-up
The London Musical Theatre Orchestra is celebrating its second birthday by announcing details of the last two concerts in its already successful 2017 season. Following on from the LMTO’s return to Cadogan Hall on 21 July with Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler’s Candide, there will be a performance of Jerry Herman’s Mack & Mabel at […]
LMTO presents Candide with Rob Houchen in title role
The London Musical Theatre Orchestra will return to Cadogan Hall next month with Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler’s Candide. Previewing next year’s Bernstein centenary celebrations, the LMTO’s concert presentation of Candide will feature Rob Houchen (Les Misérables, Titanic) in the title role. Candide follows on from the LMTO’s critically-acclaimed concert versions of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s […]
Let’s pay tribute to actor Ron Moody – and for more than just one role
Ron Moody (8 January 1924–11 June 2015). If there was one part that Ron Moody will always be remembered for, it was his role as Fagin in Lionel Bart’s 1960 musical Oliver! However, there was more to the actor than just a single, successful role, as Michael Darvell explains… Ron Moody (born Ronald Moodnick in Tottenham, […]
Candide – Menier Chocolate Factory
Candide continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, until 22 February 2014. Menier Chocolate Factory’s last musical Merrily We Roll Along was a huge hit, even transferring for a successful run in the West End and being made into a movie, but it is hard to be as enthusiastic about the theatre’s revival of Candide. […]
Menier Chocolate Factory presents Candide
Fra Fee, Cassidy Janson, Ben Lewis, Scarlett Strallen and David Thaxton have been cast in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Christmas musical Candide with music by Leonard Bernstein, book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler, lyrics by Richard Wilbur and additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Park and Bernstein. From Westphalia to […]
