VICTORIANS ON BROADWAY – Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (University of Virginia Press – ISBN: 978-0-8139-4432-6) Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd and Jekyll and Hyde became huge theatrical hits. Remarkably, all were based on one-hundred-year-old British novels or memoirs. What […]
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 Preview: 10 musicals that have grabbed our attention
With only a matter of days before the Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, we’re keen to share the Top 10 shows that have piqued our curiosity, writes Edinburgh Editor Fiona Orr. There will be, once again, a winner selected from the huge range of musical theatre pieces staged at the Fringe for Musical Theatre Review’s Best […]
Jekyll & Hyde – The Old Vic
Jekyll & Hyde continues at The Old Vic, London until 28 May. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Fresh from his success at this year’s Olivier Awards, where he won for his thrilling choreography for In The Heights, Drew McOnie’s star is definitively on the ascendancy. Later this year, he will direct the […]
