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Top Hat – Edinburgh Playhouse and Touring

Top Hat was reviewed at Edinburgh Playhouse where it continues until 4 October 2025. The tour continues until 11 April 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The choreography is immaculate, featuring dazzling solo dance and stunning unison tap dancing.

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tick, tick… BOOM! – Bridge House Theatre

tick, tick… BOOM! continues at the Bridge House Theatre, London until 27 October 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s unusual for a single musical to cement a composer into the musical theatre canon, but that’s exactly what Rent did for Jonathan Larson. Famously, Larson passed away on the eve of his show’s first Off-Broadway […]

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Bridge House Theatre’s tick, tick…Boom! – cast announced

Casting has been unveiled for the Bridge House Theatre SE20’s production tick, tick…BOOM!, the autobiographical rock musical that traces Jonathan Larson’s creation of his multi-award-winning Rent. Running from 30 September until 27 October 2019 and directed by the artistic director Guy Retallack, tick, tick…BOOM! will be the first musical produced by the Bridge House outside […]

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I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Underbelly Bristo Square

I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical continues at Underbelly Bristo Square – The Diary Room, Edinburgh until 26 August 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ‘Borrowing’ from practically every overture written for the stage, this is a tongue-in-cheek revue show featuring four vocalists and Alexander S Bermange at the […]

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Cast for I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical Edinburgh run

Four West End favourites will help composer Alexander S. Bermange to take his hit musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. Les Miserables’ James Hume (Mary Poppins, international tour) will appear alongside Felix Mosse (Aspects of Love, Hope Mill Theatre/Southwark Playhouse), Charlotte O’Rourke (Mamma Mia! […]

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Nadim Naaman to release concept album for debut musical Broken Wings

West End star Nadim Naaman and Qatar-based composer Dana Al Farden will release a concept album for their debut musical Broken Wings later this year. Following on from a series of London workshops, the show which features a book by Naaman and music and lyrics by Naaman and Al Farden, will take another step towards […]

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