Welcome to the first instalment of Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports New cast for Get Up, Stand Up! final performances The producers of the Olivier Award-winning musical […]
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Award-winners join star-packed line-up for Turn Up! live stream
Sharon D. Clarke, Noma Dumesweni, Norm Lewis and Clive Rowe are among the West End and Broadway performers who will unite with community leaders for TURN UP! – next month’s online charity event in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Raising money for four charities – The Bail Project, The Okra Project, The Black […]
New cast members for Motown The Musical as show celebrates two years in the West End
Cast changes have been announced for the West End production of popular musical’ Motown the Musical as it celebrates its second birthday at the Shaftesbury Theatre this weekend. Currently booking until 5 January 2019, the hit musical account of the legendary Berry Gordy’s founding and running of the Motown record label arrived in the UK […]
Interview – director Michael Blakemore revisits The Life at Southwark Playhouse
Opening this week, The Life at Southwark Playhouse is a revival of a musical which has not been seen since its original Broadway production 20 years ago. For this anniversary revival, the show’s original director Michael Blakemore has returned to the show. With music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Ira Gasman and a book by […]
Exposure the Musical – Life Through a Lens – St James Theatre
Exposure the Musical – Life Through a Lens continues at the St James Theatre, London until 27 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ As James Albrecht, creative director of the St James Theatre puts it: “For many creators, the object of their creativity can be described as ‘a labour of love’.” This […]
You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews – St James Theatre
You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews continues at St James Theatre, London until 5 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ So ingrained in the Broadway cultural psyche is it that the Great White Way is founded on the back of New York’s rich Jewish heritage, that Eric Idle created the song […]
Love Story – Union Theatre
Love Story continues at the Union Theatre, London until 25 October. The second of the Union Theatre’s trilogy of Howard Goodall musicals is perhaps his most well-known. Based on Erich Segal’s novel and film, Love Story premiered in Chichester in 2010 before a brief West End run, but the small, intimate scale of the story feels […]
