Shucked continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 14 June 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (Or: Ear rating: five ears ) It is the perfect summer escape and a triumph of musical theatre nonsense. Even the worst of this season’s English weather won’t dampen the joy exuding from its every kernel.
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Regent’s Park Open Air’s Shucked – the full cast
The full cast has been confirmed for the eagerly-awaited UK premiere of Broadway hit Shucked at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Classic Brigadoon and UK premiere of Shucked to feature in Drew McOnie’s first season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
The first major London revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Brigadoon in 35 years and the eagerly-awaited UK premiere of Broadway hit Shucked will feature in director and choreographer Drew McOnie’s inaugural season as artistic director of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Broadway’s Shucked will make West End debut in 2024
Cameron Mackintosh will bring Broadway’s latest homegrown hit Shucked to the West End in 2024.
Les Dennis to return as Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray at the London Coliseum
Entertainment favourite Les Dennis will return to the role of Wilbur Turnblad when the eagerly-anticipated London Coliseum production of Hairspray the Musical begins performances on 21 June 2021. The stage and screen star whose varied career has taken him from the Northern club circuit to the RSC stage in Stratford-upon-Avon via the cobbles of Coronation […]
Paul Merton to star opposite Michael Ball in Hairspray
Comedy favourite Paul Merton will make his West End musical debut as Wilbur Turnblad in the eagerly-anticipated London Coliseum production of Hairspray the Musical. The stand-up star and long-time team captain on TV’s Have I Got News For You will join Michael Ball when he steps back into his Olivier Award-winning role as Edna Turnblad […]
Carousel – Imperial Theatre, New York
Carousel continues at the Imperial Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Despite sentiments that may well discomfort contemporary audiences, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel is indisputably classic musical theatre of the highest order. And this new revival of the 1945 masterwork, directed by Jack O’Brien and choreographed by Justin Peck, […]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory continues at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Whatever changes were wrought in the recipe for Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in its trip across the Atlantic, it remains a family-sized, mouth-watering mélange of eccentric perversity and tender-hearted […]
