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Music Review: The Great Gatsby – A New Musical

The Great Gatsby – A New Musical – Original Broadway Cast Recording (Masterworks Broadway). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The soundtrack to The Great Gatsby, a musical adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s infamous book, was released following the musical’s opening on Broadway in April 2024.

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Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical – Filmed Live – Streaming

Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical is available to stream at bonnieclydelive.com from 24 June 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It is a shot of musical theatre adrenaline.

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Musicals Mash Up: 23-30 October 2022

Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports.

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Broadway star Jeremy Jordan to play summer solo show in London

Texan singer and actor Jeremy Jordan will take to the stage of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to perform his latest solo show on 29 and 30 August 2022. Presented by Fourth Wall Live, Jordan will follow his appearance in the sold-out Bonnie & Clyde in Concert in January by returning to the prestigious London […]

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Bonnie & Clyde The Musical In Concert – Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Bonnie & Clyde The Musical In Concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fourth Wall Live, the company which regularly brings Broadway stars such as Chita Rivera, Kelli O’Hara and Sierra Boggess to London, presented two performances of a legendary Broadway flop, rightly labelled the “most wanted” musical […]

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Bonnie and Clyde concert being recorded for film release

This week’s two sold-out performances of Bonnie And Clyde In Concert at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane will be captured live for film distribution at a later date. Produced by Fourth Wall Live and co-produced by DLAP Group, Jason Haigh-Ellery and David Treatman Creative, Bonnie And Clyde In Concert stars Olivier Award-nominee Francis Mayli […]

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Frances Mayli McCann steps in to play Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde In Concert

Olivier Award-nominee Frances Mayli McCann will star opposite Broadway actor Jeremy Jordan in the two sold-out performances of Bonnie And Clyde In Concert  at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane early next year. McCann (Heathers The Musical, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Evita, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) will step into the role of Bonnie, replacing […]

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Extra performance announced for Bonnie And Clyde In Concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Fourth Wall Live has announced an extra performance for next year’s London performance of Bonnie And Clyde In Concert in response to high public demand. Reuniting Broadway stars Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan the show will now play the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 17 and 18 January 2022. Marking the first time […]

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Disney offers UK schools access to Newsies: The Broadway Musical

Schools across the UK are being offered free access to Disney Theatricals Productions’ filmed stage version of the Tony Award-winning musical Newsies. Featuring wraparound educational content, Newsies: The Broadway Musical will be made available to participating schools to view between 14 June and 23 July 2021. Produced in partnership with local arts organisations and regional […]

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CD Review: R&H Goes Pop – Various Artists

R&H GOES POP – Various Artists (Downloads) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Funnily enough, I had just read some comments on a musical theatre group on Facebook about this album when I got the email asking me to review it. The comments were certainly not complimentary, so I approached the album […]

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Newsies – The Broadway Musical – UK cinema screening review

Newsies – The Broadway Musical was screened in the UK on 19 February. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As far as live-action musicals go, Disney’s 1992 film Newsies was a commercial failure. The film, which was released in the UK as The News Boys, applied the song and dance treatment to a unique period […]

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Broadway’s Newsies – cinema screenings on Sunday

UK audiences will get their first glimpse of the Tony Award-winning musical Newsies when it makes its cinema debut on Sunday (19 February). The one day only screenings in the UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand follow on from similar events in the US on 16 February and precedes screenings in various other countries on 22 […]

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Jeremy Jordan to make UK cabaret debut

American singer and actor Jeremy Jordan will make his UK cabaret debut at the London Hippodrome later this month. The Broadway star who won a Theatre World award for his debut as Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde and was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Disney’s Newsies, will play the London Hippodrome […]

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Competition – Win a copy of The Last Five Years on DVD

Following an exclusive two-week theatrical run at The Empire Leicester Square, the movie adaptation of Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown’s hit Off-Broadway musical, The Last Five Years is being released on VOD (Video on Demand) on 1 May and DVD on 4 May. And we have TWO copies of the forthcoming DVD release to give away! The Last Five […]

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Interview – Richard LaGravenese, director of The Last Five Years movie

RICHARD LaGRAVENESE is the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of, among many other hit movies, The Fisher King (which was nominated for ‘Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen’ at the 1992 American Academy Awards), The Bridges of Madison County, PS I Love You and, most recently, The Last Five Years, a film that he also directed and […]

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Interview – Jeremy Jordan, star of The Last Five Years movie

Starring alongside Anna Kendrick in the lead role of Jamie Wellerstein in the big screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is the Grammy and Tony-nominated JEREMY JORDAN, who’s best known as a leading man on Broadway, having appeared as Jack Kelly in Alan Menken and Jack Feldman’s Newsies (2012) and as […]

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The Last Five Years movie has two-week run at Empire Leicester Square

Based on Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown’s hit Off-Broadway musical, The Last Five Years will receive an exclusive two-week theatrical run at The Empire Leicester Square from 17 April before being released on VOD (Video on Demand) on 1 May and DVD on 4 May. The Last Five Years stars Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan […]

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The Last Five Years movie trailer released today

The movie trailer for The Last Five Years, based on the hit Off-Broadway musical, and starring Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, has been released today. A touching story of heartbreak and passion, The Last Five Years is an honest and funny portrayal of the highs and lows of a five year relationship. Told almost […]

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