Award-winning Iranian-Canadian actor and singer Ramin Karimloo is heading back to London for three special concert performances as part of Seth Rudetsky’s popular Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre series in October. The international star who originated the lead role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, and made […]
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John Barrowman returns to London for Seth Rudetsky Broadway show
Stage and screen favourite John Barrowman is heading back to London for three special concert performances as part of Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre. The star of TV’s Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood who began his highly successful musical theatre career opposite Elaine Paige in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes and went on […]
Disaster! – Charing Cross Theatre
Disaster! was performed at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is perhaps appropriate that, in the first of two performances of Disaster!, Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick’s homage to 1970s disaster movies, should suffer a disaster of its own – as actors Oliver Tompsett and Mark […]
Simon Lipkin joins cast of Disaster! London premiere this weekend
Guys and Dolls star Simon Lipkin joined the cast of Broadway spoof musical Disaster! as rehearsals began this week ahead of the show’s London premiere at the Charing Cross Theatre this weekend. The two gala concert performances of the show, which takes its inspiration from the star-studded disaster movie genre which dominated cinema screens in […]
Disaster! London debut – Jennifer Simard re-creates her Tony nominated role
When Broadway spoof musical Disaster! debuts in London next month with two gala concert performances at the Charing Cross Theatre, its creator Seth Rudetsky will be joined by actress Jennifer Simard, re-creating her Tony nominated role as the gambling addicted nun Sister Mary Downy. The show, which takes its inspiration from the star-studded disaster movie genre which dominated cinema screens […]
Broadway musical Disaster! has London premiere in charity concert version
Disaster!, the Broadway musical comedy spoof of star-studded 1970s jeopardy movies like The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake and Airport, is to premiere in London for two gala concert charity performances to raise funds for The Make a Difference Trust at Charing Cross Theatre on Sunday 20 November. Starring its creator, Seth Rudetsky, Disaster! will also feature a cast of West End […]
Tuck Everlasting and American Psycho closing on Broadway
The casualties from the just-ended Broadway season are piling up, with both American Psycho and Tuck Everlasting saying abrupt farewells. Tuck Everlasting posted a 29 May closing notice, while American Psycho will wind things up on 5 June. Tuck, which opened officially on 26 April after 29 previews, will at its closing have chalked up […]
Disaster! and Neverland to close on Broadway
The fallout from the Tony nominations has begun. Disaster!, the musical spoofing all those 1980 disaster movies, announced it would close 8 May instead of its earlier scheduled closing of 3 July. In the Hamilton-dominated Tony race, the show received only one nomination, for its featured actress Jennifer Simard, portraying a gambling-addicted nun with a […]
Disaster! – Nederlander Theatre, New York
Disaster! continues at the Nederlander Theatre, New York until 3 July. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ It’s New York City, 1979, and the floating Barracuda Casino and Discotheque is celebrating its opening night, a night that’s heading straight for disaster, a whole series of disasters in fact, from earthquake and tidal […]
Broadway Preview 2016 – from Disaster! to Paramour
Broadway Preview – Ron Cohen reflects on the musical theatre openings during the first half of 2016. While nothing on the immediate horizon seems ready to challenge the primacy of Hamilton as the champion of the 2015/2016 Broadway season, musical theatre gourmands nevertheless can still look forward to a promising buffet of late winter-into-spring openings. […]
