Stage, screen and recording artist Josh Groban will play the Demon Barber, Sweeney Todd opposite Tony Award-winner Annaleigh Ashford as the resourceful Mrs Lovett in the first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s multi-award-winning musical thriller Sweeney Todd since 1980. Produced by Jeffrey Seller and directed by Hamilton’s Tony Award-winning director Thomas Kail, […]
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Sheridan Smith to host Palladium show as part of BBC musicals special
Sheridan Smith will return to the London Palladium to host a star-studded transatlantic celebration of the music and stars of musical theatre and film on BBC Radio 2 later this month. Musicals: The Greatest Show will be the centrepiece of Radio 2 Celebrates Musicals – three days of programming on the national radio station along […]
CD Review: Kopfkino – John P Ellis
KOPFKINO – John P Ellis (Available for download) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ JP Ellis will be familiar to those who follow musical theatre and had been appearing in a new production of The Phantom of the Opera in Greece when this lockdown over Covid-19 started. He took the opportunity to work […]
Book Review – Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – Steven Suskin and Dave Malloy
NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 – Steven Suskin and Dave Malloy (Sterling Books – ISBN: 9781454923282) The musical of this same name is currently playing to capacity audiences on Broadway, starring Josh Groban and Denée Benton. So, what better tie-in than a gorgeously produced tome which takes you through the whole process […]
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 – Imperial Theatre, New York
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 continues at the Imperial Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The passionate, flamboyant characters that inhabit Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace come blazingly off the page in pop opera style in Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. The musical burrows […]
