Rent star Lucie Jones will join the national tour of The Wedding Singer for a limited six-week run next month. The Welsh singer who will be representing the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend in Kiev, will step into the role of Holly when the touring production reaches Aberdeen on 20 June. Jones’ casting […]
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The Wedding Singer – Bristol Hippodrome and Touring
The Wedding Singer continues at the Bristol Hippodrome until 18 March and then tours until 7 October. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It may be a while before we see La La Land as a stage musical, especially after the shenanigans at the Oscars, but there is no let up in Hollywood hit films […]
The Wedding Singer tour – more casting details
Further casting details have been released for next year’s national tour of The Wedding Singer which is due to open on Friday 10 February 2017 at Leicester Curve. Based on the much-loved 1998 film which starred Adam Sandler as the lovelorn Robbie Hart and Drew Barrymore as Julia, the waitress who captures his heart, the […]
The Wedding Singer cast set to give London audiences a one-off preview in January 2017
The cast of the 2017 UK and Ireland tour of The Wedding Singer are set to take to the Hippodrome stage in London for an exclusive concert – An Audience With the Cast of The Wedding Singer – on Tuesday 10 January at 8pm. The company will give audiences a sneak peek of the forthcoming tour, with […]
27 – Cockpit Theatre
27 continues at the Cockpit Theatre, London until 22 October. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Greek mythology is a fertile area for modern day storytelling: its larger-than-life tales of heroes, villains and quests are almost ready-made for musical theatre, a genre that freely embraces the grand gesture. Sam Cassidy’s new musical […]
British rock musical 27 – Ryan Molloy and Cassie Compton among cast
Ryan Molloy, Cassie Compton, Greg Oliver and Jack Donnelly are to star in the world premiere of the new British rock musical 27. Directed by world renowned director/choreographer Arlene Phillips, 27 is a modern fable, a dark interpretation of one of humanity’s oldest stories. It has music, book and lyrics and is co-directed by Sam Cassidy. 27 […]
The Wedding Singer musical to tour UK in 2017
A new production of The Wedding Singer will tour the UK in 2017, opening on Monday 6 February at Leicester Curve. Jon Robyns, Ray Quinn, Cassie Compton, Roxanne Pallett and Ruth Madoc will star in the musical based on the hit film. It’s 1985. Hair is huge, greed is good and rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart […]
Cassie Compton – Crazy Coqs
Cassie Compton performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s not very much of Cassie Compton but from a tiny, almost fragile frame emerges a husky, effortlessly powerful voice that fair takes your breath away. The 2004 X Factor contender made her Crazy Coqs debut a winning one with […]
Interview – Cassie Compton makes her debut at Crazy Coqs
Actress and singer/songwriter CASSIE COMPTON came to our notice in the first series of The X Factor, since when she has gone from strength to strength on stage, in film and television and music tours. In the West End her many starring roles include Eponine in Les Misérables, Nessarose in Wicked, Jean in American Psycho opposite Matt Smith, and the […]
See What I Wanna See – Jermyn Street Theatre
See What I Wanna See continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre until 3 October. Rating: two stars ★★✩✩✩ A collection of short stories rarely makes the best material for a coherent full-length musical, a point proved by Michael John LaChiusa’s See What I Wanna See, a misfiring hotchpotch of trite tropes that one of London’s best Fringe […]
Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens – Criterion Theatre
Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens at the Criterion Theatre, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Started in 1985, the AIDS Memorial Quilt memorialises the lives lost to HIV with a series of personalised panels that, as they have become stitched together, form the largest – and yet most intimate – piece of public art […]
Molly Wobbly – Leicester Square Theatre
Molly Wobbly continues at the Leicester Square Theatre, London until 14 March. Star rating: 4 stars **** If you like your musicals to be laugh-out-loud funny, quite ludicrous, seriously camp and brilliantly bizarre, then Molly Wobbly, running for the next seven weeks at the intimate Leicester Square Theatre’s Lounge, is definitely for you. With its fabulous […]
Molly Wobbly has full production at Leicester Square Theatre
Paul Boyd’s musical comedy Molly Wobbly is to get a seven-week season in The Lounge at Leicester Square Theatre from 27 January to 14 March. Molly Wobbly premiered in 2011 as a staged concert at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre. In 2012 a festival-scale production opened at the Lyric and then ran at the Assembly Rooms throughout […]
