Operation Mincemeat continues at the Fortune Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A crowd-pleaser that never dumbs down.
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New cast joins West End’s Operation Mincemeat
As the award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat enters into its fourth year in the West End, the production has welcomed a number of new cast members to the stage at the Fortune Theatre.
Operation Mincemeat – Fortune Theatre
Opera Mincemeat continues at the Fortune Theatre, London, currently booking until 25 January 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The new roll call is simply first class and the chemistry between the characters is palpable.
Extension number nine for West End’s Operation Mincemeat
Just a few weeks after the debut of the new cast, the West End premiere run of the award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat has been extended for a ninth time with performances at the Fortune Theatre now planned through to 25 January 2025.
Annie Get Your Gun – Lavender Theatre, Epsom
Annie Get Your Gun continues at the Lavender Theatre, Epsom until 5 August 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Six – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Six continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 16 July 2022 and on tour until 8 July 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There is a whole bunch of reasons why Six The Musical has become such a huge success but one of them is that Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ international […]
New cast announced for the UK tour of Six The Musical
A new cast has been announced for the UK tour of the multi-award-winning musical phenomenon Six, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. The current company will play their final performance on 6 March 2022 with the new company taking over from 8 March at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. The new touring Queens […]
CD Review: The Andrew Fisher Songbook – Various Artists
THE ANDREW FISHER SONGBOOK – Various Artists (SimG Records – SimGR-CD040) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is the latest release from the label SimG Records which is dedicated to supporting emerging artists and musical theatre writers and the company is to be lauded for such. The Andrew Fisher Songbook contains songs from […]
New Theatre Peterborough hosts workshops for The Danish Girl musical
Award-winning writers Katie Lam and Alex Parker and innovative director Tinuke Craig have joined forces with New Theatre Peterborough in a workshop for a new musical adaptation of The Danish Girl. Inspired by David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel which in turn was loosely inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, the […]
INTERVIEW: Actress Chlöe Hart on returning to the role of Tracy Turnblad – in a prison production – & what it meant to her
In February and March, just before Covid-19 locked down theatreland, CHLÖE HART went to prison to revisit the role of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray that took her from the Guildford School of Acting directly to a West End lead role at the Shaftesbury in 2009. Here she tells Musical Theatre Review contributor Jeremy Chapman what […]
Hairspray The Musical – HMP Bronzefield, Surrey
Hairspray The Musical at HMP Bronzefield, Ashford, Surrey. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Once again Pimlico Opera has worked a near-miracle in training up the “residents” of Europe’s biggest all-women prison in five short weeks to sing, dance and act to undreamed-of heights. This is the fourth time Pimlico and HMP Bronzefield […]
Chloe Hart revisits the role of Tracy Turnblad in Pimlico Opera’s Hairspray at HMP Bronzefield
Chloe Hart revisits the role of Tracy Turnblad in March 2020, the part which put her on a West End stage even before she had graduated from the Guildford School of Acting in 2009. And she’s going to prison to do it. Hart stars with Christopher Howell in Hairspray when Pimlico Opera returns to HMP […]
Mark Petty’s first four Crazy Coqs Presents shows announced
Lyricist Mark Petty has released details of the Crazy Coqs Presents series of shows which will launch this month at Live At Zédel. Announced earlier this year as part of the packed summer season line-up at London entertainment hub, the themed shows will be co-produced and hosted by Petty, the UK half of transatlantic songwriting […]
Fat Friends the Musical – full cast details
Full casting for Kay Mellor’s new musical Fat Friends the Musical has been unveiled. Fat Friends the Musical will premiere at Leeds Grand this November with an extensive UK tour to follow in 2018. Joining the previously announced cast, Natasha Hamilton (Atomic Kitten) will take on the role of Julia, Kevin Kennedy (Coronation Street) stars […]
Kerrigan-Lowdermilk: One (More) Night in London – St James Studio Theatre
Kerrigan-Lowdermilk: One (More) Night in London at the St James Studio Theatre, London. Writing duo Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk have crafted a number of musicals in their native America, none of which have yet found a secure foothold on this side of the Atlantic. That has not stopped appreciation of their songwriting talents, however, with […]
