Something Old Something New 21 was presented by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA). The revue is streaming until 1 May 2021 via Stream Theatre. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ As always there’s a delightful freshness in The MTA’s annual revue which showcases the talents of graduating second years and […]
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Musical Theatre Academy – Something Old Something New
Something Old, Something New was presented by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA) at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, the MTA (Musical Theatre Academy) was founded in 2009 by composer/musician Annemarie Lewis Thomas. And it’s a success story. The school is the only organisation […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Oh My, Nellie Bly
Oh My, Nellie Bly was performed by students from the Musical Theatre Academy at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Nellie Bly was a ground-breaking 19th-century American journalist, hardly known in the UK but better known in the States. She posed as an inmate in order to research a searing exposé, […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Something Old Something New – Bernie Grant Arts Centre
Something Old, Something New 2018 was presented by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA) at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This lively show takes us from Gershwin to Stiles and Drewe and from Bricusse and Bernstein to Shrek the Musical with lots of other slick and energetic […]
An Evening of Webborn and Finn to play St James Theatre
The work of new British musical theatre partnership Michael Webborn and Daniel Finn will be celebrated in a special concert at the St James Theatre on Sunday 20 November. An Evening of Webborn & Finn will feature songs from the duo’s well-received 2015 musical The Clockmaker’s Daughter, material from their second show, Animus, and a […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Animus
Animus, performed by the Musical Theatre Academy’s first-year students, continues at the Bridewell Theatre, London until 10 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ We’re in 18th century London. In a quasi revenge tragedy, heiress Charlotte Donne (Jenna Innes) seeks vengeance, but her judgement is not sound and she makes several (literally) fatal mistakes. It’s […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Something Old Something New
Something Old Something New – The Musical Theatre Revue, performed by students from the Musical Theatre Academy, continues at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London until 12 March. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The MTA – musical theatre training with a difference – makes a feature of an annual revue. It introduces the first year students […]
Musical Theatre Academy – The Venus Factor
The Venus Factor, presented by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA), continues at the Bridewell Theatre, London until 12 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Venus thinks sex drives the world. Her sparky son Cupid says it’s romance. Thus begins a competition to see who is right. Lust versus love. Meanwhile, in the mortal world, two […]
Of Thee I Sing – Royal Festival Hall
Of Thee I Sing was performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ For their second presentation at the South Bank Centre, Senbla with Elliot Davis presented Of Thee I Sing, the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama when it was produced on Broadway in 1931. […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Something Old, Something New
Something Old, Something New 2015 was presented by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA) at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ There is much to enjoy in this vibrant, energetic revue which really shows what MTA’s 19 talented second-year students can do. MTA policy is to showcase its second year at this […]
Just the Ticket – Musical Theatre Academy
Just the Ticket was performed by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA) at the Bridewell Theatre, London. This rather entertaining new musical by Nick Stimson (book) and Annemarie Lewis Thomas (music) was especially written to develop the talents of MTA’s first year students and it does that in spades. It stands up well as […]
Just So – Musical Theatre Academy
Just So was performed by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA) at the Bridewell Theatre, London. When selecting a musical for performance by a class of students who are coming to the end of their time at college, there are few that provide a sufficiently wide range of characters for most, if not all, […]
Christmas in New York – Palace Theatre
Christmas in New York at the Palace Theatre, London. Making its return to London after a three-year hiatus, Christmas in New York is a selection box of festive favourites – pop songs, show tunes, carols and hymns – presented by some of the leading lights of the West End. At the top of this year’s Christmas […]
