SOVIET ZION – Concept Album Cast Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Soviet Zion is a concept album of a new full-length musical drama that explores the intertwining lives of pioneers who each move to Siberia, participating in the real-life movement to establish the first Jewish homeland of the modern era – a Yiddish-speaking, […]
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Concept album released for new musical drama Soviet Zion
The creators of a new musical drama set in Siberia have released an original concept album featuring 12 vocalists along with a second album of bonus material. Featuring a book by Giles Howe with Roberto Trippini and music by Giles Howe and Katy Lipson, Soviet Zion focuses on an American family and a European family […]
Luke Bayer and Millie O’Connell are cast in Soho Cinders at Charing Cross Theatre
West End stars Luke Bayer and Millie O’Connell will head the cast when George Stiles, Anthony Drewe and Elliot Davis’ re-imagining of the Cinderella story, Soho Cinders, returns to London later this month at the start of a nine-week season at Charing Cross Theatre. With music by Stiles, lyrics by Drewe (Mary Poppins, The Wind […]
Just So – The Musical – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Just So – The Musical continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 13 January 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is 33 years now since composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe, then students at Exeter University, won the first-ever Vivian Ellis Prize with the musical Just So, currently settling in as the […]
You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews – St James Theatre
You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews continues at St James Theatre, London until 5 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ So ingrained in the Broadway cultural psyche is it that the Great White Way is founded on the back of New York’s rich Jewish heritage, that Eric Idle created the song […]
