A trio of West End favourites will feature in a new production of Maltby and Shire’s Starting Here, Starting Now which will be the first show to play the Waterloo East Theatre in 16 months. Nikki Bentley (Wicked, Apollo Victoria), Gina Murray (Mamma Mia! Novello Theatre) and Noel Sullivan (School of Rock, Gillian Lynne Theatre) […]
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West End stars in cast for digital revival of Closer Than Ever
Musical theatre stars Kerry Ellis, Lee Mead and Grace Mouat will feature with 2018 X Factor winner Dalton Harris in a digital revival of Maltby and Shire’s Closer Than Ever in September. Produced by Thomas Hopkins and Michael Quinn for Ginger Quiff Media and Stewart F. Lane, Bonnie Comley and Gio Messale for Broadway HD, […]
Big the Musical – European premiere opens at Theatre Royal Plymouth
The musical based on the hit body swap movie Big has made its European debut ahead of a potential West End opening next year. Big the Musical is playing the Theatre Royal Plymouth until Saturday (12 November) before transferring to Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre for a Christmas run from 7 December until 7 January […]
Closer Than Ever – The Pheasantry
Closer Than Ever continues at The Pheasantry, London until 27 April, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Clever, witty, regretful, searingly honest… 23 catchy songs and not a dud among them from the renowned American team of Richard Maltby Jr and David Shire, slickly performed by four […]
Back to Back Maltby and Shire revivals at The Pheasantry
Award-winning independent theatre company Neil Eckersley Productions is to produce revivals of Maltby and Shire’s critically acclaimed revues Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever at London’s The Pheasantry next month. With lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr and music by David Shire, Starting Here, Starting Now is a chronicle of the changing emotions in romantic […]
Performance Preparation Academy – Baby
Baby, performed by Performance Preparation Academy at Bellerby Studio Theatre, Guildford. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Baby is a Maltby and Shire musical nominated for two Tonys in a modest Broadway run in 1984 but clearly regarded as too full of American schmaltz to make a successful transfer to the West End. It […]
The Songs of Maltby and Shire – The Keep, Guildford
The Songs of Maltby and Shire was performed at The Keep, Guildford. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The third of Fasten Your Seatbelt’s evening cabarets was dedicated to the work of lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr and composer David Shire, the songwriting partnership behind the musical revues Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever as […]
