Carousel at the Royal Academy of Music’s Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ June was bustin’ out all over into sweltering July as the RAM’s musical theatre stars of the future made a sizzling success of Carousel.
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Carousel – Kilworth House Theatre
Carousel continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 3 July 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When Nick Winston is directing and choreographing a musical production you know you’re going to see something special, and Carousel is truly special. From beginning to end, you are treated to heavenly vocals, jaw-dropping dance […]
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2021
At the end of each year Musical Theatre Review news editor Angela Thomas normally puts together a round-up of all the shows that have received four and five star reviews during the last 12 months, but this year we thought a different approach might be more appropriate. For a start, MTR wants to congratulate all […]
Audra McDonald to star in London Palladium concert
Record-breaking American stage and screen star Audra McDonald will return to the UK to appear live at the London Palladium in September next year. Presented by Fourth Wall Live, the singer and actress who has won a string of awards including six Tonys, two Grammys, and an Emmy Award, will appear live in concert alongside […]
Cinderella’s Ivano Turco & Caleb Roberts are among the winners at the Black British Theatre Awards 2021
There was a double win for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Cinderella at the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards with two members of the cast – Ivano Turco and Caleb Roberts – winning acting prizes. Decided entirely by public vote, the awards took place at the illustrious Old Finsbury Town Hall, London, hosted by Grammy, […]
Nominees for 2021 Black British Theatre Awards
The Color Purple – At Home, The Last Five Years and West End Musical Celebration are in the running for the Best Musical Production Award at the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) next month. Following on from last year’s special socially distanced event at London’s Young Vic Theatre which was broadcast on Sky Arts, the winners of the third BBTAs […]
Carousel – Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park
Carousel continues at the Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park until 25 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Rodgers and Hammerstein never sidestepped a gritty issue and their 1945 piece about domestic abuse is no exception – and could hardly, given how cases have risen during lockdowns, be more topical. Yes, […]
The Theatre Channel – Rodgers and Hammerstein special
The Theatre Channel – Rodgers and Hammerstein special Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Theatre Channel in collaboration with Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre celebrates the work of Rodgers & Hammerstein in its seventh episode. This episode which is released ahead of the venue’s unique take on the classic Carousel is a […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Carousel – full cast and creatives
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has confirmed full casting for the venue’s upcoming revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic Carousel. As previously announced Carly Bawden (Romantics Anonymous, Shakespeare’s Globe/Bristol Old Vic, Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre) and Declan Bennett (Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air, Once, Phoenix Theatre) will star as tragic lovers Julie Jordan […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre partners with The Theatre Channel for Rodgers and Hammerstein special
Theatre-lovers will be offered a glimpse behind the scenes of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s upcoming revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic Carousel as part of a special episode of the pay-to-stream musical theatre flavoured web series, The Theatre Channel. Created by The Theatre Channel in partnership with Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Episode 7: […]
CD Review: John Raitt – Original Album Series
JOHN RAITT – Original Album Series (Stage Door Records, 2 CD set). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If ever there was a lovely box of goodies to listen to, this is it. I grew up with the original cast recordings of Carousel, The Pajama Game, Carnival in Flanders, etc with this very […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre season is postponed to 2021 season postponed to 2021
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre have announced that their entire 2020 season has now been postponed to 2021. The 2021 season will open on 15 May with the new musical, 101 Dalmatians (15 May to 20 June) followed by Romeo and Juliet (26 June to 24 July) and concluding with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (30 […]
Piece by Piece Podcast – Carousel
Carousel is the third free talkshow Piece by Piece podcast from the Pint of Wine stable taking an in-depth look at classic musicals. It follows its Rodgers and Hammerstein stablemate Oklahoma! and Guys and Dolls. Coming two years after Oklahoma! the show was never going to match the popularity of that first collaboration which ran […]
Iconic musical Carousel is discussed in latest Piece By Piece theatre podcast
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic Carousel is the subject of the latest musical theatre podcast hosted by award-winning musical director Joe Bunker. Produced by Pint of Wine theatre, the third offering in the Piece By Piece series of free musical theatre-themed talk shows is a two part, two-hour episode featuring guests, director Jo Davies (Carousel, Opera […]
New musical 101 Dalmatians for Regent’s Park Open Air’s 2020 season
A musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians will be the launch production for a packed 2020 season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre next year. The first newly commissioned musical from the prestigious venue will be directed by artistic director Timothy Sheader and will feature puppetry designed and directed by Toby Olié. With […]
Gettin’ the Band Back Together sets Broadway closing
The new 2018/19 Broadway season is already claiming its first casualty. Gettin’ the Band Back Together, which officially opened on 13 August after 30 previews, has posted a 16 September closing notice. The show, whose book was developed in improvisational sessions with actors and writers, deals in comic fashion with a group of middle-aged men […]
Carousel – Imperial Theatre, New York
Carousel continues at the Imperial Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Despite sentiments that may well discomfort contemporary audiences, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel is indisputably classic musical theatre of the highest order. And this new revival of the 1945 masterwork, directed by Jack O’Brien and choreographed by Justin Peck, […]
Broadway Musical Theatre Preview 2018 – from Frozen to Summer
With heroines including a queen who can freeze you, a guttersnipe who can charm you, and a diva who’ll make you want to dance, a half-dozen new musical productions are slated for the last half of the 2017-2018 Broadway season, writes Ron Cohen. The openings include the usual crowding up in April, as new shows […]
Interview – Josefina Gabrielle on the pleasure of playing her latest Sondheim role in A Little Night Music
JOSEFINA GABRIELLE is playing Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music, currently playing at the Watermill Theatre in Bagnor, near Newbury. Josefina is no stranger to Sondheim’s musical style – she has played Gussie Carnagie in Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory) and Dot/Marie in Sunday in the Park With George (Leicester Haymarket). Her extensive musical theatre credits also […]
Carousel – London Coliseum
Carousel continues at the London Coliseum until 13 May. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When the Michaels Linnit and Grade collaborated with the ENO and brought Sweeney Todd (starring Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel) to the London Coliseum in 2015, they appeared to have come up with a pretty successful formula: pick […]
Carousel at the ENO – first rehearsal images
Rehearsal images have been released of the cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between The GradeLinnit Company and English National Opera (ENO). The cast features Katherine Jenkins (Julie Jordan), Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow), Nicholas Lyndhurst (Star Keeper), Derek Hagen (Jigger Craigin), Alex Young (Carrie Pipperidge), Brenda Edwards (Nettie Fowler), […]
DVD, CD and Book Reviews – Judy Collins, Drake’s Dream, The King and I/Carousel
JUDY COLLINS – A LOVE LETTER TO STEPHEN SONDHEIM DVD (Wildflower – MVD9662D) I have to admit that I love Judy Collins, always have. In fact, it was her who introduced me to Stephen Sondheim’s music in 1973 with her Top 10 hit version of ‘Send in the Clowns’. It made me want to find out […]
Nicholas Lyndhurst joins ENO Carousel
Small screen favourite Nicholas Lyndhurst will return to the West End stage for the first time since 2011 to join the previously announced Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins in the much-anticipated Carousel at the London Coliseum in April. Last seen in on the London stage in Trevor Nunn’s 2011 production of The Tempest, the much-loved […]
Carousel at the ENO – Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins star
Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins will star for the first time together in the West End as Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO)and the GradeLinnit Company. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of 41 performances at ENO’s London Coliseum. Beginning on 7 April 2017, with press night on 11 April, the final […]
CD reviews – Two Cities – Carousel – Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters sing Leonard Bernstein
Nick Wakeham casts an eye over some of the latest CD releases. TWO CITIES – Original London Cast (Stage Door Records – STAGE 9045) We in the UK have always been very lucky when it comes to original cast recordings. It used to be that the company was taken into the recording studios the first Saturday after […]
Alexandra Silber – Crazy Coqs
Alexandra Silber continues in cabaret at Crazy Coqs, London, until 5 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Just now and again someone special comes along who is forever bookmarked in your Favourites and you never let them go. Streisand was like that for me in the 1960s with her first, numbingly wonderful album, Judy Collins opened my […]
Royal Academy of Music – Carousel
Carousel was performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Unlike many other Rodgers and Hammerstein titles, from Oklahoma! to The Sound of Music, Carousel was kept in cold storage for more than four decades between its London premiere in 1950 and Nicholas Hytner’s production for the RNT in […]
Carousel – Opera North – Grand Theatre, Leeds and Touring
Carousel, an Opera North production, continues at the Grand Theatre, Leeds until 23 May, and then tours to Norwich, Edinburgh and Dublin. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Music can conjure up some strange associations. ‘The Carousel Waltz’, for example, the eccentric overture to this show, immediately takes me back to the 1960s and the Sunday afternoon radio programme ‘Movie-Go-Round’. […]
Carousel – Arcola Theatre
Carousel continues at the Arcola Theatre, London, until 19 July. Once cited by Richard Rodgers as his favourite of all his musicals, Carousel, his second major collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II, tells the dark tale of barker Billy Bigelow, who in the course of the show is fired from his job, hits his wife, turns criminal, […]
Morphic Graffiti – A new kind of Carousel
Theatre company Morphic Graffiti, founded by Stewart Charlesworth and Luke Fredericks, is behind a bold new interpretation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, which officially opens tonight at the London fringe Arcola Theatre. Cameron Smith catches up with Stewart Charlesworth… It started with a typo. In 2011 Stewart Charlesworth, along with co-founder Luke Fredericks, created a new production company […]
Carousel is presented by Morphic Graffiti at the Arcola
A ‘bold new interpretation’ of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel is being staged by the company Morphic Graffiti at the Arcola Theatre, London from 18 June (press night is 23 June) to 19 July 2014. Carousel will feature a brand new acoustic orchestration by Mark Cumberland with musical supervision from renowned orchestrator Larry Blank, who has […]
Singular Sensations – Patricia Routledge – Charing Cross Theatre
Patricia Routledge talked to Edward Seckerson as part of the Singular Sensations season at the Charing Cross Theatre, London, and, after the performance, received a Living Legend award. To most audiences around the world the name of Patricia Routledge probably means the star of the BBC television comedy series Keeping Up Appearances, in which the incorrigibly […]
Carousel – Oper Graz, Austria
Carousel runs in rep at the Oper Graz, Austria until 5 June 2014. Matthias Davids, who in 2012 directed Gigi at the Oper Graz, has returned with the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Carousel. There are many reasons why this could have been problematic: firstly, because the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein are unfortunately hardly ever […]
Singular Sensations – Janie Dee – Charing Cross Theatre
Singular Sensations – Janie Dee in conversation with Edward Seckerson at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. This was the third in the series in which music journalist (and one-time actor and singer) Edward Seckerson talks to musical performers about aspects of their lives and work. Kerry Ellis and Howard Goodall were the first two guests […]
Janie Dee – St James Theatre Studio
Janie Dee performed in cabaret at the St James Studio Theatre, London as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. It would be hard to imagine a more fitting artist to end the first week of the London Festival of Cabaret than Janie Dee – a consummate performer who does not just sing a song […]
