Me and My Girl continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 25 August 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This season’s productions at Chichester have not met with the usual acclaim from other critics, although they have been well received by audiences and by this reviewer. Not surprisingly there has been speculation over […]
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Chichester’s Me and My Girl full cast confirmed
The full company has been confirmed for the Chichester Festival Theatre’s much-anticipated production of the classic Me And My Girl this summer. As previously announced the principal cast will be led Little Britain star Matt Lucas who will make his Chichester Festival Theatre debut as Bill Snibson, the Cockney barrow boy who discovers he’s an […]
Clive Rowe joins cast of Chichester’s Me and My Girl
Clive Rowe is the latest addition to the principal cast of Chichester Festival Theatre’s much-anticipated production of the classic Me And My Girl this summer. Olivier Award winner Rowe (Guys and Dolls, Carousel) will join the previously announced Matt Lucas, Caroline Quentin and Alex Young in the new version of the music hall flavoured musical […]
Musical highlights of Chichester Festival Theatre 2018 season are Flowers For Mrs Harris and Me and My Girl
Productions of the Noel Gay classic Me and My Girl and new musical Flowers For Mrs Harris will be the musical highlights of artistic director Daniel Evans and executive director Rachel Tackley’s star-studded second season at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Following on from a record-breaking 2017, the new season will feature a mix of major revivals […]
Mel Giedroyc and Caroline Quentin join cast of New Songs 4 New Shows
Olivier Award-winning actress Sally Dexter, Clive Carter and Katie Bernstein have completed the cast of New Songs 4 New Shows, the gala concert on Monday 28 November at the Lyric Theatre which features performances of songs from four new musicals (produced by musical theatre production company The Stable). The star line-up who will appear alongside Great British Bake-Off‘s Mel Giedroyc also includes: Douglas […]
CD review – Ms. A Song Cycle
Ms. A SONG CYCLE – Various Artists (SimG Records – SimGR-CD030) What a wonderful idea to help bring a bit more understanding of a truly dreadful disease – put it in song and get wonderful West End ladies to record the cycle, hopefully give it more substance and let the public know what it’s like to […]
Oh What a Lovely War – Theatre Royal Stratford East
Oh What a Lovely War continues at the Theatre Royal Stratford East until 15 March. This year is big for anniversaries. One hundred years ago saw the commencement of the First World War, it also saw the birth of Joan Littlewood whose Theatre Workshop devised this ‘musical entertainment’ that brilliantly depicts the follies of war […]
