Broadway star Phillip Attmore will make his UK debut opposite West End star Lucy St Louis in Chichester Festival Theatre’s eagerly anticipated production of Irving Berlin’s dance musical Top Hat.
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical – Piccadilly Theatre
Moulin Rouge! The Musical continues at the Piccadilly Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is hard to envisage now, some 20 years on, just how remarkable and visually unique Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! was when it hit cinemas in 2001. Not only was it a period in which movie […]
Cast unveiled for Moulin Rouge’s West End debut
Liisi LaFontaine has won the coveted role of Santine in the first UK production of the stage musical version of Baz Luhrmann’s vibrant movie Moulin Rouge. The actress who previously starred as Deena Jones in the Savoy Theatre production of Dreamgirls, will step into the role famously played by Nicole Kidman on screen opposite West […]
Waitress is the big winner at the West End Wilma Awards 2019
The West End Wilma Awards, now into their sixth year, are a rather more informal affair than some of theatreland’s more established ceremonies. Here, the theatregoing audience mingles freely with the stars whose work they have enjoyed and voted for in one of the awards’ ten categories. At this year’s ceremony, held at London’s Café […]
Rachel Tucker leads cast of European premiere of Come From Away
Thirteen actors will take on both lead and supporting roles in the Tony Award-winning new musical Come From Away which is due to land on this side of the Atlantic in December with a premiere run in Ireland ahead of its West End debut in early 2019. Inspired by the remarkable true story of the […]
Camelot – London Palladium
Camelot at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This concert version of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot from London Musical Theatre Orchestra was staged to mark the centenary of Alan Jay Lerner’s birth in October 1918, though it seems like yesterday that he was with us, having settled in London in later […]
David Thaxton and Savannah Stevenson star in LMTO’s Camelot
Olivier Award winner David Thaxton and Follies star Savannah Stevenson will head the cast of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert version of Camelot at the London Palladium next month. Thaxton, who won an Olivier Award in 2011 for his performance in the Donmar Warehouse’s Passion and has played multiple roles in the Les Misérables […]
State Fair – London Musical Theatre Orchestra – Cadogan Hall
State Fair at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A pre-concert announcement often signals something unfortunate but not in this instance! Conductor Freddie Tapner of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra (making its debut) told us that what we were about to hear was a concert version of the much-loved film State […]
