Crazy For You continues at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, London until 20 January 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Crazy For You West End transfer – full cast
Full casting has been confirmed for the West End transfer of the Chichester Festival Theatre acclaimed new production of the classic George and Ira Gershwin musical comedy Crazy For You.
Crazy For You – Chichester Festival Theatre
Crazy For You continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 4 September 2022. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ It’s rare for a show to get a standing ovation at the interval but a full house on press night quickly fell in love with this heatwave-hot revival of the wonderfully silly Crazy For You, sensationally directed and […]
Porgy and Bess – Grange Park Opera
Porgy and Bess continues at Grange Park Opera with performances on 3 and 7 July 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In a leafy corner of Surrey, the Gods of Theatre look down and bless this sublime production of Porgy and Bess. Grange Park Opera has drawn together a cast from […]
Nice Work If You Can Get It – Upstairs At The Gatehouse
Nice Work If You Can Get It continues at Upstairs At The Gatehouse, London until 27 January 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Gatehouse has done it again with the first-rate UK, and I think European, premiere production of the Gershwin jukebox musical as its 21st Christmas musical offering. One […]
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance – Crazy for You
Crazy For You was performed by Trinity Laban Musical Theatre students at Stratford Circus, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Director Sarah Redmond certainly knows how to get the best out of her young cast. The 24 graduating students in this highly enjoyable production of Crazy for You are fizzing with energy and there’s plenty of talent […]
Crazy For You tour – Caroline Flack joins Tom Chambers in cast
Caroline Flack will make her stage debut as Irene in the national tour of the Watermill Theatre’s acclaimed production of classic George and Ira Gershwin musical Crazy For You. Flack joins the previously announced Tom Chambers as Bobby. From the producers of Sister Act and Nativity! The Musical, the national tour of Crazy For You […]
The Roar of the Greasepaint – Interview With Leslie Bricusse – Part Two
Prolific and well-loved British film and musical theatre songwriter LESLIE BRICUSSE has been busy in recent weeks. Not only has the composer, lyricist and librettist revealed that he’s working on a major new musical about the life of his close friend, legendary entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr, but he has been in London celebrating the world premiere of Pure Imagination– The […]
Interview – Sally Ann Triplett doing what she loves in A Damsel in Distress at Chichester
Actress and singer SALLY ANN TRIPLETT is currently starring in a major new stage version of A Damsel in Distress at Chichester Festival Theatre. Directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford, the musical comedy has songs by George and Ira Gershwin, and is based on the novel by P.G. Wodehouse and the play by Wodehouse and Ian Hay (also […]
Shades of Blue – Carole J Bufford – Crazy Coqs
Shades of Blue: Carole J Bufford continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 31 January. Star rating: 5 stars ***** Twelve months ago when drooling over the exorbitant talent of a cute young southern belle from a small town in Georgia where “cabaret still means stripping”, it was hard not to get excited about the British debut at the Crazy Coqs […]
Michael Feinstein and Friends – Palace Theatre
Michael Feinstein and Friends at the Palace Theatre, London. Small, dapper and a ridiculously young-looking 57, Michael Feinstein bounded on to the Palace stage and gave us a two-hour trawl through the Great American Songbook with brief assistance from Elaine Paige and Julian Ovenden in this flagship event of the first London Festival of Cabaret. […]
