La Cage aux Folles continues at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris until 11 January 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It successfully reconnects the musical to its French theatrical roots while addressing contemporary questions of identity and acceptance.
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Hello, Dolly! – Lido 2, Paris
Hello, Dolly! continues at Lido2, Paris until 5 January 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is truly a testament to the enduring power of Golden Age musical theatre, brilliantly brought to life by a cast and crew pouring their heart and soul into every aspect of the production.
Hello, Dolly! – London Palladium
Hello, Dolly! continues at the London Palladium until 14 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This may just be the best-performed revival of it there has ever been.
Jerry’s Girls – Menier Chocolate Factory
Jerry’s Girls continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 29 June 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ This 33-song hurtle through the Jerry Herman songbook performed by a hard-working trio of Jerry’s Girls and an all-female band will send you home humming some of the greatest show songs ever written.
Cast update for Menier Chocolate Factory’s Jerry’s Girls
Jessica Martin will complete the cast of the Menier Chocolate Factory’s upcoming revival of Jerry Herman and Larry Alford’s Jerry’s Girls.
Menier Chocolate Factory to stage revival of Jerry’s Girls
Hannah Chissick (Pack of Lies, Eugenius) will return to the Menier Chocolate Factory to direct a major revival of Jerry Herman and Larry Alford’s Jerry’s Girls next month.
The Wonderful Music and Lyrics of Jerry Herman – Cadogan Hall
The Wonderful Music and Lyrics of Jerry Herman at Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Remembering Donald Pippin (1926-2022) – Broadway’s favourite musical director, conductor and arranger
In many ways Donald Pippin, who has died at the age of 95, was the American musical theatre’s greatest maestro as a musical director and conductor. And from 1955 until 2018 he was also responsible for the vocal arrangements of some of Broadway’s most successful shows. Michael Darvell looks back on a great musical career… […]
Hello, Jerry! – Royal Academy of Music
Hello, Jerry! was performed at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For two performances only the Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company treated us to a glittering celebration of Jerry Herman and this was the best one I have ever […]
Lorna Luft – Crazy Coqs
Lorna Luft performed at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Lorna Luft’s love affair with London goes back to the 1960s when her mother Judy Garland decided to move to the British capital, ultimately bringing her kids along. Aside from a few theatrical appearances at other venues, notably in Babes […]
Star-studded online concert Kings Of Broadway 2020 will celebrate the work of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman & Stephen Sondheim
Kings Of Broadway 2020, an online concert celebrating the music of the legendary Broadway composers Jule Styne, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim (the latter two whose lyrics will also be celebrated), will premiere at 7pm on Sunday 31 May 2020 via the ‘Quick Fantastic’ channel on YouTube. The evening will feature a cross section of […]
Flashback: Mack And Mabel – Encores! – New York City Center
Mack and Mabel, an Encores! production, played at New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With the sudden death of the great Jerry Herman late December, the presentation of Mack and Mabel, one of his own favourite works, as the first musical at City Center this year was a fitting and well-deserved […]
Andy Nyman and Jenna Russell join Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly!
Andy Nyman and Jenna Russell will join Imelda Staunton in the eagerly-anticipated new production of the classic musical Hello, Dolly! at the Adelphi Theatre this summer. Fresh from his critic and crowd-pleasing performance as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, multi award-winner Nyman will play Horace Vandergelder with Olivier Award winner Russell (The Bridges of […]
Remembering Jerry Herman 1931-2019
Jerry Herman, the American composer and lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, Mame, La Cage Aux Folles, Dear World and The Grand Tour, has died at the age of 88. Michael Darvell looks back at the work of a great Broadway talent. The American composer and lyricist Jerry Herman, who has died aged 88, was essentially a […]
Tributes paid to Broadway legend Jerry Herman
Harvey Fierstein and Angela Lansbury were among the star names paying tribute to the musical theatre legend Jerry Herman following news that the multi-award-winning composer and lyricist had died on 26 December 2019 at the age of 88. Writing on Twitter, Fierstein who wrote the book for Herman’s La Cage Aux Folles said: “Jerry Herman […]
Imelda Staunton is back where she belongs – Hello, Dolly! at the Adelphi Theatre in 2020
Michael Harrison and David Ian have announced that Imelda Staunton is back where she belongs in Hello, Dolly! as one of the most iconic musicals of all time comes to the Adelphi Theatre in 2020. This brand new production reunites Staunton with director Dominic Cooke, following the critically-acclaimed production of Follies at the National Theatre. Jenna Russell […]
Mame – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Mame continues at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 9 November 2019, then tours until January 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When Hope Mill announced the first professional UK revival of Mame since its 1969 West End premiere, one colleague suggested that there may have been a reason for its lengthy absence. Let’s face […]
Showtune – Union Theatre
Showtune continues at the Union Theatre, London until 24 August 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ ‘I Won’t Send Roses’, ‘Time Heals Everything’, ‘Before the Parade Passes By’, ‘Tap Your Troubles Away’, ‘I Am What I Am’… If ever proof was needed that Gerald Sheldon Herman is the quintessential Broadway showtune […]
Remembering Carol Channing – A great lady of the musical theatre
The American actress and singer CAROL CHANNING, who has died at the age of 97, became a Broadway legend, if only because she created the title role in the musical Hello, Dolly! A great lady of the musical theatre is recalled here by Michael Darvell… Carol Channing was born in Seattle, Washington on 21 January […]
Mack & Mabel – Hackney Empire
Mack & Mabel was performed by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra at the Hackney Empire in a one-off concert production. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Of all his musicals, composer/lyricist Jerry Herman counts Mack & Mabel as his favourite… and if he’d been lucky enough to be at the Hackney Empire […]
CD Review – Hello, Dolly! – 2017 Broadway Cast
HELLO, DOLLY! – 2017 Broadway Cast (Masterworks Broadway – 88985405922) At times like this I wish more than anything that I lived in New York. I would love to actually see this production onstage. Perhaps by now you may have gathered that I am in love with this recording of the 2017 Broadway cast of […]
Hello, Dolly! – Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York
Hello, Dolly! continues at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Look at the old girl now, fellas,” the lady in sparkly red at the corner of the stage sings out to the audience. And you’d have to be a total idiot to not do just […]
La Cage Aux Folles – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
La Cage Aux Folles continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 18 March and then tours until 26 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The first-ever UK tour of Jerry Herman’s insanely entertaining 1983 Broadway hit – it picked up six Tonys and ran for four and a half years – is a […]
Bette Midler stars in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway in spring 2017
Broadway theatregoers will once again have a chance to say ‘Hello, Dolly!’ And this time it will be Bette Midler portraying the indefatigable matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi. The news broke this week that Midler – also known rightly as the Divine Miss M – will star in a revival of the classic musical to open on 20 April 2017. […]
Kings of Broadway – Palace Theatre
Kings of Broadway was performed at the Palace Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Only five weeks after a glittering 85th birthday concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane came another Sondheim tribute at the Palace Theatre, this time also celebrating two other Kings of Broadway: the show tune champion Jerry Herman, composer […]
Interview – Richard Fleeshman celebrates the Kings of Broadway
Singer, actor and songwriter RICHARD FLEESHMAN will be appearing in Kings of Broadway, a special concert celebrating legendary composers Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne, at London’s Palace Theatre on Sunday 29 November. The latest show from Alex Parker and Alastair Knights, the creative team behind the staging of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music which played the Palace […]
Mack & Mabel – Chichester Festival Theatre
Mack & Mabel continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 5 September, and then tours the UK and Ireland from 1 October–6 December. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart’s musical, telling of the early days of silent film-making and the relationship between film director Mack Sennett and his greatest star Mabel Normand, has […]
Mack and Mabel at Chichester Festival Theatre – full cast revealed
The full cast has been confirmed for Chichester’s forthcoming summer musical, Mack and Mabel, which will be led by Michael Ball and Rebecca LaChance in the title roles. Following the Chichester run (13 July to 5 September), this major new production will tour across the UK and Ireland. Based on the true romance between Hollywood legends Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, […]
Jerry’s Girls – Jermyn Street Theatre
Jerry’s Girls continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 31 May. Rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s no doubt that Jerry Herman has earned his place as one of the 20th century’s greatest composers of musical theatre. From his early successes of Milk and Honey and Hello, Dolly!, to his 1983 smash hit La Cage Aux […]
Jerry’s Girls transfers to Jermyn Street Theatre for three-week run
Following a sell-out run at St James Studio last month, musical revue Jerry’s Girls will transfer to Jermyn Street Theatre for a limited three-week run from Tuesday 12 to Sunday 31 May 2015, with a press night on Friday 15 May. Featuring songs from classic musicals including Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage Aux Folles, […]
Rebecca LaChance cast opposite Michael Ball in Mack and Mabel at Chichester
After an extensive search, American actress Rebecca LaChance has been confirmed to star as Mabel alongside Michael Ball in Chichester’s forthcoming summer musical, Mack and Mabel, at the Festival Theatre from 13 July to 5 September, and then touring across the UK and Ireland in the production. Based on the true romance between Hollywood legends Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, this […]
Jerry’s Girls – St James Studio
Jerry’s Girls continues at St James Studio, London until 15 March. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It is only when you hear 28 of his show songs paraded one after the other in a sparkling revue staged so winningly by a hectically-involved cast of five under Kate Golledge’s imaginative direction that you realise the full extent of Broadway legend Jerry […]
Jerry’s Girls London revival – meet the Girls
Full casting has been announced for musical revue Jerry’s Girls which, 30 years after it opened on Broadway, will be revived in a limited two-week run (3 to 15 March) at the St James Studio, London. Jerry’s Girls are Anna-Jane Casey, Ria Jones and Sarah-Louise Young. Anna-Jane Casey was recently seen starring in Forbidden Broadway at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Vaudeville Theatre. West End credits […]
The Grand Tour – Finborough Theatre
The Grand Tour continues at the Finborough Theatre, London until 21 February. 3 stars *** The Grand Tour used to be known as a traditional trip around Europe taken by young men of means as an educational rite of passage. Jerry Herman, Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble’s long neglected musical of the same name is based on […]
Jerry Herman revue Jerry’s Girls opens at St James Studio in 2015
Thirty years after it opened on Broadway, musical revue Jerry’s Girls will be revived in a limited two-week run at the St James Studio, London from 3 to 15 March 2015. Jerry’s Girls brings together an all-female cast to honour the legacy of the multi Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist of some of the greatest Broadway […]
Cast revealed for Herman’s The Grand Tour at the Finborough
Alastair Brookshaw, Nic Kyle and Zoë Doano are to head the cast for the European premiere of Jerry Herman’s 1979 Broadway musical The Grand Tour, directed by Thom Southerland at the Finborough Theatre as part of the 20 Premieres Season. Produced by Danielle Tarento, The Grand Tour will run for an eight-week strictly limited season from Thursday 1 January to Saturday 21 […]
Jerry Herman musical Grand Tour has European premiere at the Finborough Theatre
The European premiere of Jerry Herman’s Broadway musical The Grand Tour will be presented at London’s Finborough Theatre (1 January to 21 February 2015) by producer Danielle Tarento and director Thom Southerland, the same team that brought audiences Titanic, Parade, Mack & Mabel and Victor/Victoria (press nights are 6 and 7 January). The Grand Tour has music and lyrics by Jerry […]
