THE DANCING YEARS – Various Artists (Jay Records – CDJAY2 1452) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Marmite of operetta Ivor Novello – you either love him or loathe him – wrote The Dancing Years back in 1939. The story takes place in Vienna, from 1911 until 1938 and follows the life […]
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New Novello-inspired show to close London Song Festival
This year’s London Song Festival will close with a specially commissioned show featuring West End stars and the music of Ivor Novello and Noël Coward. Set on the empty stage of Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 5 September 1939 when all theatres were closed due to the outbreak of the Second World War, Ghost Lights […]
Valley of Song CD launch – Finborough Theatre
Following a successful run of Ivor Novello’s last musical show Valley of Song, the cast of the Finborough Theatre production have recorded the songs for the first-ever CD of the score. Michael Darvell reports… Many London fringe theatres have a policy of producing new work, none more so than the tiny Finborough Theatre above what was […]
The Great British Musicals in Concert – London Hippodrome
The Great British Musicals in Concert was performed at the Matcham Room at the London Hippodrome. Who better to host an evening dedicated to the best of British musical theatre than Nicholas Parsons, himself a performer in some of the featured shows more than 50 years ago? “Do I know these shows?” he asked. “I was […]
Nicholas Parsons hosts The Great British Musicals in Concert
Following the critically acclaimed concert, Ivor Novello – The Great British Musical, award-winning musical director Ross Leadbeater returns to the London Hippodrome on Sunday 1 June at 7pm with The Great British Musicals in Concert. Narrated by presenter, actor and BBC Radio 4 Just a Minute host Nicholas Parsons, the show should be an intimate […]
Valley of Song – Finborough Theatre
Valley of Song continues at the Finborough Theatre, London until 25 January. Valley of Song, Ivor Novello’s last and unfinished musical, receives its professional world premiere at the Finborough Theatre more than 60 years after the composer’s death. Presented as part of the Finborough’s ‘Celebrating British Music Theatre’ and ‘The Great War 100’ series, this […]
Ivor Novello – The Great British Musical – London Hippodrome
Ivor Novello – The Great British Musical at the Matcham Room, London Hippodrome. Nostalgia, romance and pride in our fair land were the order of the day with Ivor Novello – The Great British Musical at a packed Matcham Room in a show that has been revisited and revised since the Welshman’s fan club first […]
