FUNNY GIRL – New Broadway Cast (Sony Masterworks 1996587888824). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Whatever went wrong for the critics of the new Broadway production certainly doesn’t reveal itself on the new album.
Tag Archives | Jule Styne
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 […]
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for the Union Theatre
Sasha Regan will direct and produce a new production of 1940s Broadway hit Gentleman Prefer Blondes at London’s Union Theatre this autumn. The musical which marked Carol Channing’s Broadway debut in 1949 will bring a little Hollywood-style glamour to South London from 2 to 26 October 2019, with a press night on 8 October. Zak […]
‘Brilliantly captures Sheridan Smith in full bloom’: Funny Girl – the movie of the stage musical
Funny Girl – the movie of the stage musical premiered at cinemas nationwide on 24 October 2018. ‘Great’ is a vastly overused word but Sheridan Smith’s Fanny Brice in Funny Girl is indisputably one of the great performances on the British stage and is well worthy of preserving on film for posterity. It rivals Imelda […]
Funny Girl – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Funny Girl continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 4 March, then tours until 19 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Following smash-hit runs at the Menier Chocolate Factory and the Savoy, Funny Girl comes to the Milton Keynes Theatre as the second stop on its nationwide tour. The show stars […]
Bar Mitzvah Boy – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Bar Mitzvah Boy continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 10 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There can surely be no better time to revive a musical that combines the skills of Jule Styne and Don Black than 2016. Composer Styne’s Gypsy and Funny Girl have been successfully revived […]
Interview – lyricist Don Black on Bar Mitzvah Boy and 2016 being a very good year
This year is looking to be a good one for lyricist DON BLACK. As well as a new West End musical, Mrs Henderson Presents, under his belt, the London Coliseum is to play host to a revival of Sunset Boulevard (for which he co-wrote the book and lyrics with Christopher Hampton and won two Tony […]
Bells Are Ringing – Amiens and Touring
Bells Are Ringing was performed at the Maison de la Culture, Amiens as part of a tour. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ While Singin’ in the Rain is selling out for a second season in a row at Châtelet, another Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical has been touring extensively throughout […]
The day has arrived – Gypsy is broadcast today on BBC4 at 9pm
Tonight (Sunday 27 December) on BBC4 at 9pm UK audiences will get the chance to see Olivier Award-winning actress Imelda Staunton’s highly acclaimed performance as the ultimate stage mother Momma Rose in the hit revival of Gypsy at London’s Savoy Theatre. Cameras captured the production for the BBC’s all important Christmas line-up as well as for a rumoured DVD release. The Sunday […]
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 […]
Bar Mitzvah Boy – Aria Entertainment presents rare London revival in 2016
Aria Entertainment is presenting a rare revival of the musical Bar Mitzvah Boy which will run for six weeks at London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre from Thursday 3 March to Sunday 10 April (press night is 10 March). Jack Rosenthal adapted his award-winning 1976 TV play (British Academy Best Play Award and Broadcasting Press […]
Menier Funny Girl starring Sheridan Smith already set for West End transfer
Due to unprecedented demand the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Funny Girl transfers to the Savoy Theatre in London’s West End, following the sold out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory which begins later this month. Michael Mayer’s production, starring Olivier and BAFTA award-winning actress Sheridan Smith as Fanny Brice and with the cast from the Menier Chocolate Factory, will begin performances […]
Confirmed – Sheridan Smith leads Funny Girl at the Menier in December
The Menier Chocolate Factory today announced that actress Sheridan Smith returns to the theatre to play Fanny Brice in a major new revival of Funny Girl. The multi award-winning Michael Mayer directs the production, which opens on 2 December, with previews from 20 November, and runs until 5 March 2016. Funny Girl returns to the […]
Gypsy – Lara Pulver and Peter Davison join London cast
Joining Imelda Staunton, who stars as Momma Rose in the West End transfer of Jonathan Kent’s production of Gypsy, are Lara Pulver who will reprise the role of Louise and Peter Davison who joins the cast to play Herbie. Final casting for the Chichester Festival Theatre production will be announced shortly. A musical fable with book by Arthur Laurents, Gypsy has music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, suggested by […]
Imelda Staunton leads West End transfer of Chichester’s Gypsy
Imelda Staunton will star as the indomitable Momma Rose in the West End transfer of Jonathan Kent’s sell-out Chichester Festival Theatre production of Gypsy, the first to be seen in London for 40 years. This strictly limited season opens at the Savoy Theatre on 15 April 2015 with previews from 28 March 2015. Further casting for Gypsy, which goes on sale today […]
Gypsy – Chichester Festival Theatre
Gypsy continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 8 November. Gypsy is considered to be the best showbiz musical of all time and this production proves it. The news that Imelda Staunton was to be reunited with Jonathan Kent, who directed her in Sweeney Todd, created quite a buzz and raised very high expectations. Those expectations are well […]
Everything’s Coming Up Roses: the Jule Styne Songbook – Crazy Coqs
Everything’s Coming Up Roses: the Jule Styne Songbook continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 6 September. What a blast – short but very sweet… two dozen Jule Styne songs rattled off in a bare hour in a gorgeous start to the Crazy Coqs’ autumn season. Truly, everything’s coming up roses for London cabaret if this is the […]
Everything’s Coming Up Jule Styne – interview with musical director Alex Parker
Composer Jule Styne wrote some 1500 songs in a long career in Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and on Broadway. Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Jule Styne Songbook, opening at London’s Crazy Coqs on 2 September, is a tribute to a great songwriter who died 20 years ago this month. Devised and directed by Alastair Knights (Putting It Together, The […]
