Oliver! – 2024 London Cast Recording (First Night Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Please sir, we want some more!
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David Burt to play Scrooge for fifth time in Antic Disposition’s A Christmas Carol
West End and Olivier Award-nominated star David Burt will re-create his critically acclaimed performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in Antic Disposition’s popular musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ timeless A Christmas Carol for the fifth time this festive period.
Book Review: Victorians On Broadway – Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
VICTORIANS ON BROADWAY – Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (University of Virginia Press – ISBN: 978-0-8139-4432-6) Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd and Jekyll and Hyde became huge theatrical hits. Remarkably, all were based on one-hundred-year-old British novels or memoirs. What […]
A Christmas Carol – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
A Christmas Carol continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 11 January 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Scottish singer-songwriter Finn Anderson is on a roll. Straight from a London production of Islander, for which he won the Musical Theatre Review award for Best Musical at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he […]
A Christmas Carol – Windsor Castle
A Christmas Carol continues at Windsor Castle until 4 January 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is one of the most frequently told Christmas stories each festive season, and this one is no exception, with productions at The Old Vic, RSC and now Windsor Castle. Windsor Castle […]
Windsor Castle to host unique version of A Christmas Carol
Windsor Castle will be the majestic setting for nine performances of Charles Dickens’ timeless A Christmas Carol this festive period. Presented by theatre company Watch Your Head, the family-friendly, immersive performances of the much-loved story tale of Scrooge and his ghostly visitors will be staged in the rooms where the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret […]
Oliver Twist – Salle Gaveau Paris
Oliver Twist continues at Salle Gaveau, Paris until 31 December. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is unusual for an original French musical to stand up well in comparison to a classic British offering, but this is the case with the new musical Oliver Twist – approaching Charles Dickens’ text from a […]
A Christmas Carol – Middle Temple Hall
A Christmas Carol continues at Middle Temple Hall, London until 30 December. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Middle Temple Hall allows an audience to step back in time and enter into the world of Scrooge with its site-specific stage space. Stepping away from the city’s busy streets, the theatre offers a […]
David Burt and David Hunter to star in A Christmas Carol
David Hunter will play downtrodden Bob Cratchit alongside David Burt’s Scrooge in Antic Disposition’s musical version of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. Following on from sell-out seasons in 2012 and 2014, A Christmas Carol will play London’s historic Middle Temple Hall from December 22 until December 30. With Olivier nominated Burt (Les Misérables, Evita) […]
Chichester Youth Theatre to revive A Christmas Carol – music and lyrics by Jason Carr
Following a highly acclaimed production of Running Wild during Festival 2015, Chichester Festival Youth Theatre returns at the end of their 30th anniversary year with a revival of A Christmas Carol, adapted from the Charles Dickens novel by Bryony Lavery (playing from 18 December 2015 to 2 January 2016). Dale Rooks, Chichester’s Youth Theatre and Education director co-directs this production with […]
Antic Disposition’s A Christmas Carol returns to Middle Temple Hall in December
Award-winning Antic Disposition, founded in 2005 by director Ben Horslen and director/designer John Risebero, is to celebrate its tenth anniversary with two productions, both performed in spectacular site-specific locations in central London. Alongside Henry V, staged in Temple Church from 24 August to 5 September, is the return of A Christmas Carol which will be performed in the spectacular Elizabethan setting of Middle […]
A Christmas Carol – Middle Temple Hall
A Christmas Carol continues at Middle Temple Hall, London until 30 December. Site-specific theatre inevitably adds an extra dimension to the experience as we saw so thrillingly with the recent pie-and-mash-shop Sweeney Todd, and, with A Christmas Carol playing there, a first visit to the magnificent Middle Temple Hall, where Twelfth Night premiered at Candlemas 1602, was a chance […]
Olivier nominee David Burt stars as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at Middle Temple Hall
West End star David Burt has been cast as Scrooge in Antic Disposition’s musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ festive classic, A Christmas Carol, which returns to the Elizabethan setting of Middle Temple Hall in central London from Saturday 20 to Tuesday 30 December, following a sell-out run in 2012 (press night is 22 December). On Christmas Eve, […]
A Christmas Carol – Charing Cross Theatre
A Christmas Carol continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 4 January 2014. Charles Dickens’ transformative Christmas favourite A Christmas Carol – a show that’s no stranger to musical adaptation – gets a heartwarming new airing at the Charing Cross Theatre courtesy of Talkwood Productions. A relatively new group, Talkwood formed in 2008 and specialises […]
Dickens Abridged – Arts Theatre
Dickens Abridged continues at the Arts Theatre, London until 5 January 2014. You might think that the loose baggy monster novels of Charles Dickens could never by abbreviated in any form. Anybody having gone through an A Level or English degree who only had study notes to refer to will be forgiven for wondering where […]
