Following its opening at the Watermill Theatre, a critically-acclaimed sell-out tour in 2019, a highly successful Christmas season at The Other Palace in 2019, a Grammy nomination and three Olivier Award nominations, Amélie The Musical arrives in the West End this summer. Following the government roadmap announcement, tickets are on sale now for a socially […]
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Amélie The Musical – The Other Palace
Amélie The Musical continues at The Other Palace, London until 1 February 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Enchantingly bizarre, charming throughout and sumptuously produced, Amélie The Musical, is the perfect ‘alternative’ festive offering this year at The Other Palace, a venue that since its relatively recent inception has always at […]
Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little will play Paris’ Theatre Marigny
Deprived as we are of any English-language musicals in Paris while the Theatre du Châtelet is closed for refurbishment, there is still some Stephen Sondheim to be seen in 2019 at the Theatre Marigny just off the Champs-Elysees. Running from 30 January to 24 February is Marry Me a Little, that revue of out-takes from […]
Renée Fleming and Dove Cameron head cast of London premiere of The Light in the Piazza
Opera superstar Renée Fleming and Disney TV star Dove Cameron will make their London theatre debuts next summer in a special production of Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza. The first production from Scenario Two, the new company founded by John Berry and Anthony Lilley, The Light in the Piazza will make its London […]
Amélie – A New Musical – Walter Kerr Theatre, New York
Amélie – A New Musical continues at the Walter Kerr Theatre, New York. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Whimsy is an elusive quality to capture in the Broadway vernacular of today, with its abundance of ear-blasting power ballads, ironic gags and strenuous jaw-dropping dancing. Amélie, a New Musical is an adaptation of the […]
An American in Paris – Dominion Theatre
An American in Paris continues at the Dominion Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It was back in December 2014 that our contributor Jeremy Chapman reviewed this reinvention of the wonderful 1951 Oscar-winning Vincente Minnelli/Gene Kelly movie when it opened – rather appropriately – at the Theatre du Chatelet in […]
Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little revived at St James Theatre
Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little will return to the London stage for the first time in 17 years in a brand new production at St James Studio Theatre, London for 16 performances only from 29 July (press night is 31 July). Marry Me A Little pieces together a selection of Sondheim songs to tell a bittersweet […]
