The Scottsboro Boys, Kander & Ebb’s award-winning and final musical, is to transfer to London’s West End for a strictly limited season following its highly acclaimed season at the Young Vic. The recipient of the prestigious Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical, the production will preview at the Garrick Theatre from 4 October, ahead of a […]
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Jeff Harnar – Crazy Coqs
Jeff Harnar performs Does This Song Make Me Look Fat? at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 1 March. With his dapper charm and New York polish, Jeff Harnar was always a cabaret singer who made the game look easy, but the eye-catchingly named Does This Song Make Me Look Fat? show he brings with him […]
Janie Dee and Jason Carr – The Pheasantry
Janie Dee and Jason Carr performed their shows at The Pheasantry, London. It was little wonder that the divine Janie Dee chose the old Liza Minnelli number ‘Yes’ for her late-show cabaret at The Pheasantry as the Kander & Ebb classic encapsulates exactly the sort of trip this extraordinary actress-singer is on right now. You […]
The Scottsboro Boys is Best Musical at Critics’ Circle Awards
The Young Vic’s production of The Scottsboro Boys has been named as best musical at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2013. Young Vic artistic director David Lan and producer Catherine Schreiber received the Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical from reviewer Heather Neill at the ceremony, held at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The trophy […]
The World Goes ‘Round – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
The World Goes ‘Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb was performed at the Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast. If the challenge for any new company is to make sure its first public outing announces the new venture in style, then the debut appearance by Northern Ireland’s youngest company, Blunt Fringe Productions, can be judged a […]
The World Goes ‘Round – Union Theatre
The World Goes ‘Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb continues at the Union Theatre, London until 8 February. You’d have to be seriously allergic to musicals not to enjoy this tuneful retrospective of the work of those Broadway giants John Kander and Fred Ebb, famous, of course, for Cabaret and Chicago as well as […]
The World Goes ‘Round at the Union Theatre
Jonathan Vickers writes: London’s Union Theatre is to stage the award-winning Kander & Ebb revue The World Goes ‘Round in a limited run beginning 17 January (previews on the 15 and 16 January) and ending on 8 February. The piece, exclusively featuring the music of admired writing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, parades some of […]
