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National Youth Music Theatre – Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting was performed at the Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With strong performances from theatreland’s next generation, Tuck Everlasting is a powerfully beautiful success.

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The Great Gatsby: A New Musical – London Coliseum

The Great Gatsby: A New Musical continues at the London Coliseum until 7 September 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Have a glass of champagne, enjoy the revelry, and if you’re left pondering deeper questions afterward, that is just a bonus.

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London Coliseum debut for Broadway hit The Great Gatsby

The new Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age romantic tragedy, The Great Gatsby will make its West End debut at the London Coliseum in April 2025.

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Music Review: The Great Gatsby – A New Musical

The Great Gatsby – A New Musical – Original Broadway Cast Recording (Masterworks Broadway). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The soundtrack to The Great Gatsby, a musical adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s infamous book, was released following the musical’s opening on Broadway in April 2024.

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Streaming return for hit A Killer Party

The UK premiere recording of new murder mystery musical A Killer Party returns to Stream.Theatre this week. Adapted for UK audiences, the show which was a lockdown hit in the US, is available as a nine-episode series for home viewing on stream.theatre until 28 November. The cast includes Jason Manford (Curtains, The Producers), Ben Forster […]

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Amélie the Musical – Criterion Theatre

Amélie the Musical continues at the Criterion Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It has become the hot take du jour to be cynical about Amélie, the 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet film that so delighted us all those years ago. In real life, wouldn’t such a person – quirky nearly to […]

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A Killer Party – Stream.Theatre

A Killer Party is available to stream until 30 May 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A group of performers are called together for a themed murder mystery party. But when the lights go out, and then the host is found face down in the soup, has one of the actors gone […]

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Amelie The Musical transfers to the West End’s Criterion Theatre in May 2021

Following its opening at the Watermill Theatre, a critically-acclaimed sell-out tour in 2019, a highly successful Christmas season at The Other Palace in 2019, a Grammy nomination and three Olivier Award nominations, Amélie The Musical arrives in the West End this summer. Following the government roadmap announcement, tickets are on sale now for a socially […]

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Jason Manford, Rachel Tucker, Cedric Neal, Debbie Kurup & more are cast in the UK premiere of A Killer Party

Casting has been announced for the UK premiere of A Killer Party which will be released as a series of nine episodes to watch on-demand. The dates have now changed from the previous announcement to 26 April to 23 May 2020. The cast includes Oscar Conlon-Morrey (Only Fools and Horses, Nativity The Musical) as Shea […]

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UK version of hit online musical A Killer Party to premiere in April

The UK premiere of new murder mystery musical A Killer Party will debut as a nine-episode series on stream.theatre next month. Adapted for UK audiences, the show which was a lockdown hit in the US last summer, will be available for home viewing from 19 April until 16 May 2021. With the line-up of ‘suspects’ […]

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London cast recording of Amélie to be released

Craft Recordings and Concord Theatricals will release the Original London Cast Recording of Amélie in digital form on Friday (5 June 2020). Now available for pre-order, the recording features the cast of 13 actor-musicians who took to the stage at The Other Palace for the successful London transfer run of the Watermill Theatre’s hit production […]

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London season at The Other Palace for Amelie The Musical

The Watermill Theatre’s sold-out production of the critically-acclaimed musical version of hit French film Amélie will follow its current UK tour with a Christmas season in London. Starring French-Canadian stage and screen star Audrey Brisson (The Grinning Man, Bristol Old Vic) in the title role, the hit production will play a limited season at The […]

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Danny Mac to join tour of Amelie

British actor Danny Mac will star opposite French-Canadian stage and screen star Audrey Brisson in the UK tour of the critically-acclaimed musical version of hit French film Amélie. The former Hollyoaks star whose theatre credits include On the Town at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and an award-winning performance in the UK touring production of […]

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Amélie The Musical to premiere at the Watermill Theatre before tour

The musical version of hit French film Amélie will receive its UK premiere at Newbury’s Watermill Theatre in 2019 ahead of an extensive UK tour. Directed by Michael Fentiman, Amélie The Musical will debut at the distinctive Berkshire venue from 11 April until 18 May 2019 before heading out on the road from 20 May. […]

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The Burnt Part Boys – Park Theatre

The Burnt Part Boys continues at the Park Theatre, London until 3 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Burnt Part Boys takes a musical epic and brings it down in size for Park90’s intimate venue. The show relies largely on the audience’s imagination in picturing the mountain, forest, river and […]

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