13 THE MUSICAL – Soundtrack from the Netflix Film (Ghostlight Records and Atlantic Records). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ 13 may not have the musical depth or emotional complexity that some of Brown’s better-known works do, but this middle school musical captures the angst that emotional upheaval at the start of teenage life can bring.
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Netflix sues unofficial Bridgerton musical creators
Just a few weeks after Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear celebrated their surprise Grammy Award win for their unofficial Bridgerton musical album, the duo have been hit with a lawsuit filed by Netflix. The streaming giant is reportedly claiming the duo is using “valuable intellectual property from the Netflix original series Bridgerton to build an […]
CD Review: tick, tick…BOOM! – Soundtrack from the Netflix film
tick, tick…BOOM! – Soundtrack from the Netflix film (Sony Music Masterworks) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with tick, tick…BOOM!, an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionised theatre as the creator of Rent. The film follows […]
tick, tick… BOOM! – Netflix
tick, tick… BOOM! – Netflix. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Creators of art love to see themselves, so in every art form there is some form of light reflected back upon the creator, as if they are saying: “look how hard this is? It’s really tough, but I managed it, so […]
Diana The Musical – Netflix
Diana The Musical – Netflix (and reopening on Broadway on 17 November 2021). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It’s amazing how reading one-star reviews of a show can influence one’s approach to seeing it and I tuned into Netflix expecting to loathe this Broadway musical take on the iconic Diana. Would […]
First look at Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film version of Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…BOOM!
Netflix has released a teaser trailer and artwork for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut, the movie version of tick, tick…BOOM!, the autobiographical rock musical that traces Jonathan Larson’s creation of his multi-award-winning Rent. Starring Tony Award-winning actor Andrew Garfield (Angels in America, West End and Broadway), the film will be launched on Netflix and in […]
Broadway opening night and Netflix date for Diana: The Musical
The controversial Princess Diana musical will now premiere on Netflix on 1 October 2021 just over two months before the show celebrates its delayed Broadway opening night on 16 November. As previously announced a performance of Diana: The Musical was filmed for Netflix at the Longacre Theatre without an audience in attendance last year. The […]
Streaming hit The Queen’s Gambit to be transformed into a stage musical
The media’s latest small screen obsession, The Queen’s Gambit is being turned into a musical. Level Forward, the production company behind the multi Tony Award-nominated stage version of Alanis Morrissette’s Jagged Little Pill (2020) and the 2019 Tony Award-winning production of Oklahoma! has acquired the rights to adapt Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel for the stage. […]
Bathtubs Over Broadway – Netflix
Bathtubs Over Broadway – Netflix. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s about 526,000 minutes since we last saw a live show on Broadway or in the West End but these lockdowns have given musical theatre aficionados plenty of time to trawl through the movie outlets we now have on TV in search […]
Broadway’s Diana musical to premiere on Netflix
The controversial new musical based on the life of Princess Diana will now premiere on Netflix ahead of its delayed Broadway opening in May next year. Producers Grove Entertainment (Beth Williams), Frank Marshall and The Araca Group have announced that the show which had begin preview performances at the Longacre Theatre before the Covid-closedown, will […]
Mamma Mia! film sequel to debut on Netflix
Hit sequel Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! will be made available for the first time to UK and Ireland Netflix users from 26 June 2020. First released in cinemas in 2018, a decade after the first film hit the big screen, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! tells two stories: the present-day reopening of […]
How to survive two weeks of isolation with free online musicals
Have a slight cough and a finely-honed sense of anxiety? Facing two weeks of self-isolation in home lockdown? Worried whether your body can even cope with an entire fortnight away from kick-lines, high Eb belts, and getting charged £10 for a house red? Here are 14 pieces of musical theatre you can watch online for […]
