A revival of the classic American musical Barnum will be the centrepiece of the 2024 season at the Watermill Theatre this summer.
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42nd Street – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
42nd Street continues at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, booking until 5 January 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s hard for me not to feel a tad sentimental about 42nd Street. Despite the fact I am getting older and there are moments when I enter a room, not remembering […]
Lulu joins West End cast of 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Lulu returns to the West End after 30 years to join the cast of 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the role of Dorothy Brock. Lulu made her acting debut at the age of 16, starring with Sidney Poitier in the unforgettable To Sir With Love – and taking the title song […]
Barnum to be revived at the Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory has unveiled plans for the first major London revival of Barnum 36 years after the classic American musical played the West End. Opening on 5 December, with previews from 25 November, the production is due to run until 3 March 2018. The story of P.T. Barnum, the 19th century travelling circus […]
42nd Street – Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
42nd Street continues at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It has been 33 years since 42nd Street had its first original London production at the Theatre Royal in 1984, when, in parallel to the production’s book, Catherine Zeta-Jones was plucked from the chorus and placed into the […]
Opening night for 42nd Street at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane – exclusive gallery of images
Tonight 42nd Street (with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin and music by Harry Warren) has its official opening at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Here is an exclusive gallery of images from Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan. The production is directed by Mark Bramble (whose other hit shows include Barnum, Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers, The Grand Tour) and […]
View from 42nd Street – the launch at Theatre Royal Drury Lane
The reworking of the classic musical comedy 42nd Street, which will open for previews at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in March 2017, will be ‘sensational’, according to director and co-author Mark Bramble. Following the announcement that Grammy Award-winning artist Sheena Easton will make her West End debut in the production, playing the part of prima donna Dorothy Brock, […]
42nd Street – Sheena Easton makes West End debut
Sheena Easton – the Grammy award-winning artist who has sold more than 20 million records around the world – is to make her West End debut in the forthcoming production of 42nd Street. Easton, who remains the only artist in history to have top five records on five major Billboard charts, will perform the role of Dorothy Brock […]
42nd Street to open at Drury Lane in March 2017
A major new re-working of classic backstage musical comedy 42nd Street will open at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane next March. Based on the 1933 Warner Brothers film musical, the new version of the show which premiered on Broadway nearly 40 years ago will begin previewing on Monday 20 March 2017, ahead of a press night […]
Jerry Herman musical Grand Tour has European premiere at the Finborough Theatre
The European premiere of Jerry Herman’s Broadway musical The Grand Tour will be presented at London’s Finborough Theatre (1 January to 21 February 2015) by producer Danielle Tarento and director Thom Southerland, the same team that brought audiences Titanic, Parade, Mack & Mabel and Victor/Victoria (press nights are 6 and 7 January). The Grand Tour has music and lyrics by Jerry […]
