Former Coronation Street star Charlie Condou will return to Christopher Luscombe’s 40th anniversary re-working of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Show for the autumn and winter legs of the current UK tour. The actor, who will share the role of The Narrator with comedian Steve Punt and veteran actor Phillip Franks, returns to the […]
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Let Me Sing and I’m Happy – Wendi Peters – St James Theatre Studio
Let Me Sing and I’m Happy – Wendi Peters at St James Theatre Studio, London, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s a first time for everything and baking a brownie, Wendi Peters’ interval treat for each member of her full-house audience, certainly put a […]
Interview – Hayley Tamaddon starring as Roxie Hart in Chicago on tour
Having worked on television for the past few years, HAYLEY TAMADDON is back on the boards in the touring production of Chicago. With Emmerdale and Coronation Street, not to mention Dancing On Ice, behind her, the actress now takes on Roxie Hart in the supremely successful musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with former EastEnders […]
The Sound of Music – Corrie’s Gray O’Brien makes musical theatre debut
Former Coronation Street villain Gray O’Brien will make his musical theatre debut as Captain Von Trapp opposite The Voice’s Lucy O’Byrne as Maria in Bill Kenwright’s new touring production of The Sound of Music in December. The Scottish actor, who was a double award winner for his performance as bad guy Tony Gordon in the […]
Anne Reid at Crazy Coqs
Anne Reid In a New Key, at the Crazy Coqs, London. Electrocuted as Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street in 1971, Dinnerladied by Victoria Wood in 1998, kit off as a daring 66-year-old who beds a pre-Bond Daniel Craig in The Mother in 2003 and wooed by Derek Jacobi in last autumn’s wonderful TV series Last Tango […]
