West End leading lady turned radio presenter Elaine Paige has used her expertise to help put together a three CD collection – Elaine Paige Presents Showstoppers from the Musicals – celebrating the best and most successful stage and screen musicals. The Evita star who now presents the hit Radio 2 show Elaine Paige On Sunday has […]
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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 […]
The Phantom of the Opera – images from 30th anniversary celebrations
On Monday 10 October the West End production of the iconic musical The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special charity gala performance in aid of The Music in Secondary Schools Trust. To celebrate this milestone, the current cast including Ben Forster as The Phantom, Celinde Schoenmaker as Christine Daae and Nadim Naaman as Raoul were […]
The Go-Between – Apollo Theatre
The Go-Between at the Apollo Theatre, London until 15 October. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This is a haunting musical evocation of ‘the past is a foreign country’ novel by LP Hartley that became a memorable Julie Christie movie in the 1970s, but whether it has a future in the jukebox-saturated West End will […]
Michael Crawford returns to West End in musical The Go-Between
Michael Crawford – internationally renowned for originating the title role in The Phantom of the Opera and loved by millions for his role as the hapless Frank Spencer in the classic British sitcom Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em – will return to London’s West End this summer in a new production of The Go-Between. Based on the […]
