Fame continues at the Peacock Theatre, London until 19 October 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Your name up in lights, leg warmers and dubious racial stereotypes, everything is bundled up into the classic film, TV show, Broadway and Off-Broadway musical. But how has the most recent spawning of the famous […]
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Fame The Musical – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Fame The Musical continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 1 December 2018 and then on tour. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ In the early stages of watching this revival of Fame The Musical, I began to wonder how much it would connect with teenagers today nearly 40 years after the period […]
Fame – The Musical – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Fame – The Musical at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, then touring until 17 August 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s something about Fame that clearly endures. While the road to stardom was a rocky one for the students of New York’s High School of Performing Arts, each fictional incarnation – Alan Parker’s 1980 […]
Closer to Heaven at the Union Theatre – full cast details
The full cast for the Union Theatre’s revival of Closer to Heaven, the musical by Jonathan Harvey and the Pet Shop Boys which opens later this month has been announced. Alex Lodge (Titanic, Saturday Night Fever) will play the central role of Straight Dave, with Molly McGuire (Carrie –The Musical) as Shell, Jonathan David Dudley (Joseph, […]
