Grab Me a Gondola – Guildford School of Acting, 2025 cast recording (Stage Door Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ GSA’s 2025 cast recording looks set to continue making waves.
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Theatre stars and students to feature in Valentine’s Day online concert
West End stars and recent graduates will be among the line-up of 30 performers who will appear in Theatre Fan Parties’ second virtual concert next month. Following on from the successful One Perfect Moment concert, the Valentine’s Day event which will be streamed online for 48 hours from 7pm on 14 February 2021 will feature […]
INTERVIEW: Actress Chlöe Hart on returning to the role of Tracy Turnblad – in a prison production – & what it meant to her
In February and March, just before Covid-19 locked down theatreland, CHLÖE HART went to prison to revisit the role of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray that took her from the Guildford School of Acting directly to a West End lead role at the Shaftesbury in 2009. Here she tells Musical Theatre Review contributor Jeremy Chapman what […]
Guildford School of Acting – Betty Blue Eyes
Betty Blue Eyes is performed by students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Theatre, Guildford. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Not everyone knows but Kylie Minogue once played a pig, not any old pig but Betty Blue Eyes, the adorable porcine heroine of the George Stiles and Anthony Drewe […]
Guildford School of Acting – Bullets Over Broadway The Musical
Bullets Over Broadway The Musical, performed by Guildford School of Acting third years at Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford, continues until 11 November. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This musical version of the 1994 Woody Allen movie was given its first British production in Guildford this week and proved a real crowd-pleaser. […]
Guildford School of Acting – Fabulous 50
Fabulous 50 is performed by Guildford School of Acting musical theatre students at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre until 22 July. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This brilliantly put-together celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University of Surrey by its current musical theatre students, both undergraduate and post-graduate, is a delight […]
Guildford School of Acting – The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was performed by Guildford School of Acting musical theatre third years at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Here is a real curio – the European premiere of a show originally written and rejected by the public more than 30 years ago, […]
Guildford School of Acting – Forbidden Broadway
Forbidden Broadway, performed by students from the Guildford School of Acting, continues at the Performing Arts Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford until 1 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Guildford School of Acting’s third-year graduates have themselves a ball with these hilarious spoofs on pillars of musical theatre society in a […]
Guildford School of Acting – Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls, performed by Guildford School of Acting final-year students at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, continues until 25 April. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s probably sacrilege to say so, but this remarkable student revival of one of the greatest musicals ever written leaves for dead the much-praised Chichester Festival […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie – Guildford School of Acting
Thoroughly Modern Millie was performed by final-year undergraduate students at Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Any stage production of Richard Morris, Dick Scanlan, and Jeanine Tesori’s Thoroughly Modern Millie inevitably calls to mind the 1967 film on which the theatrical adaptation […]
Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize – winners revealed
The Stephen Sondheim Society and Mercury Musical Developments have announced the winners of the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize. The winners were revealed at the tenth anniversary West End Gala held at the Novello Theatre which was hosted by star of stage and screen Julian Ovenden. Courtney Bowman is this year’s Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year, performing ‘Me and […]
Guildford School of Acting – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Guildford School of Acting 3rd year students at Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ A loud, crazy American musical not over-blessed with great songs, big laughs or moving moments was given such a full-frontal assault by these richly talented final-year GSA […]
Guildford School of Acting – Into the Woods
Into the Woods is performed by the Guildford School of Acting 3rd Years at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Guildford School of Acting’s love-in with the works of Stephen Sondheim – Into the Woods follows their summer productions of Anyone Can Whistle and […]
Guildford School of Acting – Ghost the Musical
Ghost the Musical was performed by third year BA Musical Theatre students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Ghost the Musical, with book and lyrics by Bruce Joel Rubin and music and lyrics by Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics fame) and Glen Ballard, has gone […]
Don’t Run – Waterloo East Theatre
Don’t Run continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 7 November. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Diagnosed with terminal cancer, professional photographer Michael Thompson (Ryan Bennett) disappears. His distraught wife (Stephanie Stone) and three children search for him by trawling his lifelong portfolio of photographs for clues. The journey, which takes […]
Guildford School of Acting – Pandora
Pandora was composed, directed, and performed by MA students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. The show receives its next performance by the same cast at the Union Theatre, London on 3 August. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Pandora, a new musical with music and lyrics […]
Guildford School of Acting – Snoopy: The Musical
Snoopy: The Musical was performed by MA Musical Theatre students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The world of Charles M. Schulz’s immortal Peanuts newspaper comic strip (and its subsequent iterations on television) presents itself as an obvious candidate for adaptation […]
Guildford School of Acting – Anyone Can Whistle
Anyone Can Whistle is performed by Guildford School of Acting’s 2nd Year Musical Theatre students at the Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ The curiosity value of a rare outing for one of Stephen Sondheim’s least-performed works – it lasted only nine performances on Broadway in 1964 – has led […]
Guildford School of Acting – On the Town
On the Town by Guildford School of Acting third-year BA Musical Theatre graduates at Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford, continues until 29 March. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Although On the Town creaks a bit – at 71 years old it’s entitled to look a tad old-fashioned and out of tune with modern tastes – the boundless […]
Sister Act – Guildford School of Acting
Sister Act was performed by third-year BA Musical Theatre students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. Star rating: 5 stars ***** Among the abundance of musicals based on iconic films that have emerged in recent years, the 2006 adaptation of 1992’s classic comedy Sister Act may be the exception that proves […]
LIFT the Musical – Guildford School of Acting
LIFT the Musical was performed by third-year BA Musical Theatre students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Craig Adams and Ian Watson’s LIFT the Musical crystallises around the lives of eight everyday protagonists who chance to ride in the same elevator at Covent Garden tube station. In the 54 […]
The Addams Family – A New Musical – Guildford School of Acting
The Addams Family – A New Musical was performed by third-year BA Musical Theatre students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. The Addams Family has enjoyed several incarnations subsequent to Charles Addams’ original cartoons for The New Yorker: Gomez, Morticia, and their kinsfolk have been the subjects of ABC’s […]
StreetDreams – Guildford School of Acting
StreetDreams was performed by second-year BA Musical Theatre students (Friday/Saturday evening cast) from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Studio, Guildford. Drawing Guildford School of Acting’s summer 2014 season to a close was the world premiere of StreetDreams, an entertaining yet serious ensemble show with book co-written by Bob Tomson (who also directed this […]
Flora, the Red Menace – Guildford School of Acting
Flora, The Red Menace is performed by Guildford School of Acting MA Musical Theatre students at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford, Surrey. Unless you’ve lived near Dundee, Richmond, Brighton or the London Fringe, you are unlikely to have seen Kander and Ebb’s first collaboration Flora, the Red Menace, as this 1965 forerunner to Cabaret and Chicago has never made […]
Lysistrata Jones – Guildford School of Acting
Lysistrata Jones was performed by MA Musical Theatre students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Following its success both Off and on Broadway in 2011-12, Lysistrata Jones received its European premiere courtesy of Guildford School of Acting, the Ivy Arts Centre being transformed into a basketball court for the purpose. The […]
Guildford School of Acting – Little Women/Chess
Little Women and Chess, performed by the Guildford School of Acting final year students at the Union Theatre, London and Ivy Arts Theatre, Guildford. Life’s full of surprises, isn’t it? I fully expected to love Chess, the underrated collaboration between Tim Rice and the Abba boys Andersson and Ulvaeus, but was less sure about Little […]
The Bakewell Bake Off arrives at the Landor
Following a sell-out run at London’s Waterloo East Theatre in August, new British musical The Bakewell Bake Off will transfer to the Landor Theatre on 8 October 2013 (officially opening on 10 October). The action throws the spotlight on seven eager contestants, three feuding judges and one bewildered hostess all taking part in a high-pressure […]
Guildford School of Acting – Footloose
Performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. Set in the quiet town of ‘Bomont’ in Bible-belt America, Footloose the musical was a very ambitious choice of show for a cast of third-year drama school students. However, the musical theatre graduates of the Guildford School of Acting pulled it off with all the style and professionalism […]
