Composer LEIGHTON JAMES HOUSE has written the music for new British musical Are You as Nervous As I Am? which continues at London’s Greenwich Theatre until 23 October 2022. He joins a multi-award-winning creative team which also includes Simon Spencer (book) and Shaun McKenna (lyrics). Leighton made his presence known as a composer in 2004, when […]
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Are You As Nervous As I Am? – Greenwich Theatre
Are You As Nervous As I Am? continues at the Greenwich Theatre, London until 23 October 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This new British musical, written by Simon Spencer, with music by Leighton James House and lyrics by Shaun McKenna, follows the journey of two sisters, Peggy and Janet, and […]
Cast for premiere of Are You As Nervous As I Am?
A trio of young actresses has joined the cast of new British musical Are You as Nervous As I Am? for its world premiere at London’s Greenwich Theatre this autumn. Megan Donovan will follow her West End debut in Mary Poppins by sharing the roles of Young Peggy and schoolgirl Anwen with Darcey Wilks (The […]
Greenwich Theatre debut for Polly (The Heartbreak Opera)
Bristol-based Marie Hamilton and Sharp Teeth Theatre will bring their contemporary re-imagining of John Gay’s Polly to London’s Greenwich Theatre on 14 and 15 February 2020. Inspired by Gay’s controversial sequel to the 18th century poet and dramatist’s most famous work The Beggar’s Opera, Polly (The Heartbreak Opera) re-works the story of Polly Peachum’s search […]
Brooklyn: The Musical – Greenwich Theatre
Brooklyn: The Musical continues at Greenwich Theatre, London until 19 October 2019. Star rating: two stars ★★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Telling an original story within the frame of a theatrical musical is never easy. That is, in part, why we see so many adaptations from other media – the familiarity with the underlying story helps […]
European premiere for Broadway show Brooklyn
Broadway musical Brooklyn will receive its European premiere at London’s Greenwich Theatre this autumn over 16 years after the show’s US debut. With a book, lyrics and music by Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson, the story of a Parisian street singer called Brooklyn who heads for New York in search of her father, will play […]
A Spoonful of Sherman – Greenwich Theatre and Touring
A Spoonful of Sherman continues at the Greenwich Theatre, London until 30 March 2018, and then tours until 3 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A musical about musicals could very easily be self-conscious and awkward and it’s certainly a high risk idea. In the hands of the Sherman family, […]
Lizzie – Greenwich Theatre
Lizzie continues at the Greenwich Theatre, London until 12 March. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Nothing about this show particularly screams out ‘musical theatre.’ It’s more like a live punk rock concert with four lead singers with big voices and even bigger hair. Lizzie is making its UK premiere, following a […]
Lizzie musical at Greenwich Theatre – casting details
Casting has been announced for Lizzie, the ‘new gothic rock musical with a killer edge’, which will receive its UK premiere at London’s Greenwich Theatre early next year. Inspired by the story of notorious alleged axe-murderer Lizzie Borden, the musical will arrive in the capital in February following a European premiere at Frederica Teater in […]
Gothic rock musical Lizzie – UK premiere heads to Greenwich Theatre
Frederica Teater in association with Aria Entertainment present the UK premiere of Lizzie, a brand new gothic rock musical, arriving at the Greenwich Theatre next year (22 February to 12 March 2017, press night is 24 February), following a run at Frederica Teater, Denmark in January 2017. On a sweltering summer morning in 1892, in a small New […]
The Adventures of Pinocchio – Greenwich Theatre
The Adventures of Pinocchio continues at the Greenwich Theatre, London until 23 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Everyone knows Carlo Collodi’s classic tale of Pinocchio – the wooden puppet who just wants to be a real boy. A woodsman called Geppetto (Martin Neely) only wants a son or daughter to fill his empty life. He makes himself […]
The Who’s Tommy – Greenwich Theatre
The Who’s Tommy continues at Greenwich Theatre, London until 23 August. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Born out of a desire for inner enlightenment, Tommy is the brainchild of Pete Townshend of the legendary rock band The Who. Billed as a ‘rock-opera’ – the first of its kind – Tommy was originally released as an album in 1969, which […]
The Who’s Tommy at Greenwich Theatre – Ashley Birchall cast in lead role
Full casting is announced today for The Who’s Tommy, which will play a limited run at Greenwich Theatre from Wednesday 29 July to Sunday 23 August. The production comes 20 years after Tommy was last seen in London, marking the 40th anniversary of the original film and the 50th anniversary of The Who. The title role of […]
Avenue Q – Greenwich Theatre and Touring
Avenue Q continues at the Greenwich Theatre until 24 May before continuing on a UK tour until May 2016. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The mad, bad muppets are back and they’re as filthy, foul-mouthed and funny as ever! I somehow managed to miss every opportunity to see Avenue Q when staged here in the UK, […]
The Who’s Tommy has anniversary production at Greenwich Theatre this summer
Almost 20 years after its last UK production, The Who’s Tommy will play a limited run at Greenwich Theatre this summer (29 July to 23 August, press night is 31 July), marking the 40th anniversary of the original film and the 50th anniversary of The Who. Based on the iconic 1969 double-album rock opera, which later […]
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story – Greenwich Theatre and Touring
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story continues at the Greenwich Theatre until 18 April before embarking on a UK tour. Star rating: 2 stars ★ ★ The appalling story of Leopold and Loeb – ‘Dickie’ and ‘Babe’ – is one of those lurid, early 20th century Chicagoan cases dubbed “the crime of the century”. A thrilling cocktail of […]
Altar Boyz – Greenwich Theatre
Altar Boyz continues at the Greenwich Theatre, London until 18 October. Having opened Off-Broadway in 2005 and run for five years, it may seem strange that this fairly simplistic musical has not made it to British shores sooner. Possibly the main factor for this is that Altar Boyz relies heavily on the popularity of Christian-themed music […]
Musical Altar Boyz has UK premiere at Greenwich Theatre in October
After five years and more than 2,000 performances Off-Broadway, Altar Boyz will have its UK premiere in a strictly limited run of 14 performances at Greenwich Theatre from Friday 3 October 2014. The musical has a book by Kevin Del Aguila, and music and lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker. It is conceived by Marc Kessler and Ken Davenport, […]
The Three Little Pigs entertain young and old
Reviewed at the Greenwich Theatre, London. Written by the Olivier Award-winning team that bought young audiences Honk! Just So, Mary Poppins, Betty Blue Eyes and Soho Cinders, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe’s European premiere of the well-known children’s story The Three Little Pigs is a sweet and simple tale, complemented by a sophisticated and appealing score […]
