The rarely-performed Meet Me in St Louis is to be Grange Park Opera’s musical for their 2020 summer season. The title song apart, the show has such showstoppers as ‘The Trolley Song’, ‘Under the Bamboo Tree’, ‘Skip to My Lou’ and ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’. Better known as an early (1944) Judy Garland […]
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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 […]
Oklahoma! – Grange Park Opera
Oklahoma! continues at The Theatre in the Woods, West Horsley Place, Surrey until 7 July. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Oklahoma!, granny’s favourite, is a safe choice for Grange Park Opera’s first musical in their wondrous new theatre in the Surrey woods, built by themselves with the help of generous donations after the fallout […]
Oklahoma! is Grange Park Opera’s first musical in new location
Oklahoma!, with Dex Lee as Curly, Katie Hall as Laurey and Claire Moore as Aunt Eller, will be Grange Park Opera’s first musical since the company moved from Hampshire to Surrey last June and built its own 700-seater Theatre in the Woods at West Horsley Place. The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic will open on 7 […]
Exclusive – Pimlico Opera to stage Les Mis at Surrey prison
After missing out 2016 while it and sister company Grange Park Opera were building their own Theatre in the Woods at West Horsley Place, and moving to Surrey following a protracted dispute with the owners of its Hampshire HQ for 17 years, Pimlico Opera is once again going to prison with a musical – and […]
Oliver! – Grange Park Opera
Oliver! continues at the Grange Park Opera at The Grange, Northington, Hampshire until 2 July. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Getting to the latest revival of Lionel Bart’s 1960 masterpiece in deepest Hampshire is quite a schlepp. Just when you think you’ve cracked it, there’s yet another narrow, windy country lane to […]
