Tag Archives | Julie Yammanee

Young Frankenstein – Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool

Young Frankenstein continues at the Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool until 3 January 2026. Star Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Young Frankenstein is two hours of uproariously funny and often risqué comedy.

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I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester and Touring

I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical was reviewed at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester. The tour continues touring until 31 August 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ First-rate entertainment that will make your face ache from grinning, and the only thing not to like about it is that it ends all too soon, leaving you genuinely wanting more.

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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.

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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.

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I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical – Wilton’s Music Hall

I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical at Wilton’s Music Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩

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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella continues at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 11 December 2022. Star Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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Full cast for Hope Mill Theatre’s Cinderella

Full casting has been confirmed for the upcoming UK theatrical premiere of the Broadway version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. As previously announced the production which will play the Ancoats’ venue from 1 November until 11 December 2022, will star Grace Mouat (Legally Blonde, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; & […]

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Carousel – Kilworth House Theatre

Carousel continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 3 July 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When Nick Winston is directing and choreographing a musical production you know you’re going to see something special, and Carousel is truly special. From beginning to end, you are treated to heavenly vocals, jaw-dropping dance […]

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Gatsby – Southwark Playhouse

Gatsby continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 8 January 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The beauty of creating atmosphere in a novel is that so much of the heavy lifting is done in the imagination of the reader. Adaptations often fall short when bringing well-realised fictional worlds to other mediums, […]

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Jodie Steele and Ross William Wild to star in Gatsby: The Musical

Jodie Steele and Ross William Wild will return to the central roles of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby for the festive run of Ruby in the Dust Theatre’s Gatsby: The Musical  at the Southwark Playhouse. Steele (SIX The Musical, Heathers) and Wild (Million Dollar Quartet, American Idiot) will be joined by Luke Bayer (Everybody’s Talking […]

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Hope Mill Theatre streams free online Rodgers and Hammerstein concert

With the UK theatrical premiere of the Broadway version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella at Hope Mill Theatre on hold the team at the award-winning Manchester venue are streaming a free online concert celebrating the work of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Available until 3 May 2020 and hosted by Hope Mill’s founders William […]

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West End stars will feature in Hope Mill Theatre’s online concert of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s music

Hope Mill Theatre is staging an online concert featuring West End stars, celebrating the much-loved music from legendary songwriting duo Rodgers and Hammerstein, on 26 April 2020 at 7pm. Like many theatres across the country, Hope Mill Theatre has been closed since 17 March due to Covid-19. The venue ceased all productions and made the […]

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Spamilton – Menier Chocolate Factory

Spamilton continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory until 8 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Spamilton– not to be confused with the other hip-hop parody musical Shamilton – is Forbidden Broadway creator Gerard Alessandrini’s inevitable parody of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Herculean hit Hamilton. And just like its target, the show is packed full to bursting with […]

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Casting for Spamilton at the Menier Chocolate Factory

Casting has been announced for the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Gerard Alessandrini’s Hamilton-inspired spoof Spamilton which will make its UK debut this month. Running from 12 July until 8 September 2018 with an opening night on 24 July, the UK premiere of Spamilton marks a return to the Menier for Forbidden Broadway creator Alessandrini. Alessandrini will […]

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