PARADE – 2023 Broadway Cast Recording (Interscope Records). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Originating from a Broadway production that ended prematurely – after just 84 performances – but then achieved two Tony wins and a further seven nominations, Parade is a show that truly divides audiences. Its central narrative is based on […]
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Big wins for Kimberly Akimbo and Parade at the Tony Awards 2023
Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo, the work of Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, led the way at the 76th Annual Tony Awards, winning five prizes (the most received by any production) including Best Musical. The show also picked up performance awards for Victoria Clark and Bonnie Milligan plus Best Book […]
Some Like It Hot leads Tony Award nominations with & Juliet, New York, New York and Shucked close behind
Leading the way on the musical theatre front in the Tony Awards nominations was Some Like It Hot with 13 nominations, closely followed by & Juliet, New York, New York and Shucked, all with nine nominations.
Doing, rather than waiting – An interview with acclaimed producer Katy Lipson (Part Two)
KATY LIPSON is the director of Aria Entertainment, a company which has been at the forefront of reimagining how theatre can operate given our current world of lockdowns and social distancing. Her Park Theatre production of Rags (originally at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre) and Southwark Playhouse production of The Last Five Years have been nominated for six Off-West End Awards […]
Parade – National Youth Music Theatre – The Other Palace
Parade at The Other Palace, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ A good few years ago, the National Youth Music Theatre’s superb production of The Hired Man, at the same venue, left me massively impressed with its very young, superbly talented cast. That production has always remained a benchmark and so expectations were […]
Hope Mill Theatre to celebrate first two years with evening of song and backstage stories
The creative team behind Manchester’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre will step out from behind the scenes in April to celebrate the distinctive venue’s incredible first two years in operation. An evening of song and stories, An Aria of Hope and Dreams on Monday 16 April, will be hosted by Hope Mill’s co-founders Joseph Houston and […]
Parade – Frogmore Paper Mill, Hemel Hempstead
Parade was performed at Frogmore Paper Mill, Hemel Hempstead. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ From the moment the notes of ‘The Old Red Hills of Home’ rang out, sung gloriously by Lawrence Smith as a young Confederate soldier, it was clear we were about to experience something quite extraordinary. What young […]
Full cast for Parade at the Frogmore Paper Mill in Hertfordshire
Casting has been announced for the revival of the award-winning 1998 musical Parade which will be the first professional production at the world’s oldest working paper factory in Hertfordshire this September. Connor Dyer (Leo Frank), Sherelle Kelleher (Lucille Frank), Philippa Rose (Mary Phagan), Tré Copeland-Williams (Jim Conley) and Thomas Isherwood (District Attorney Hugh Dorsey) will lead a […]
New production of Parade to launch Hertfordshire Paper Mill as arts venue
A revival of the award-winning 1998 musical Parade will be the first professional production at the world’s oldest working paper factory in Hertfordshire this September. With a book by Driving Miss Daisy writer Alfred Uhry and a score by Jason Robert Brown (Songs For a New World; The Last Five Years; Bridges of Madison County), […]
Musical Theatre 2016 – a reflection – what was your favourite?
Musical Theatre Review reflects on an incredibly busy year of theatre – in the West End, on the London Fringe, across the UK – and picks a selection of shows from each month that topped the FOUR and FIVE star ratings with our contributors. JANUARY Guys and Dolls – Savoy Theatre, London Star rating: five stars ★ […]
Hair lined up as next in-house musical at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre
Classic rock musical Hair will be the second in-house musical theatre production at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester’s new independent theatre and event space. With a creative team led by director Jonathan O’Boyle (Four Play and Sense of an Ending at Theatre503, The Surplus at the Young Vic and associate director on Mack & Mabel, The Scottsboro Boys and The Judas Kiss) and […]
Parade – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Parade continues at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 5 June. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Dubbed ‘the ultimate feel-bad musical’ when it opened on Broadway to mixed reviews in 1998, this unflinching depiction of injustice and intolerance in America’s Deep South in the early 20th century has gained a growing reputation over the last few […]
New Manchester theatre and Aria Entertainment join forces on production of Parade
A cross-country partnership between a London arts producer and Manchester’s newest theatre space will be launched in May with a revival of the classic musical Parade. Aria Entertainment, the producers behind new musical showcase From Page to Stage and recent productions of Seasons of Larson, Tommy, Jerry’s Girls and Marry Me a Little, has joined forces with the […]
Parade – London Theatre Workshop
Parade continues at the London Theatre Workshop until 13 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Some of the most exciting theatre takes place on the London Fringe – and certainly the best value – so why even think of paying vast sums for some of the tat that gets into the West End when you can feast on […]
New staging of Parade at London Theatre Workshop in September
For a strictly limited two-week run (1–13 September), a new revival of Jason Robert Brown’s Parade will play the intimate London Theatre Workshop with a cast of 13 actors in multiple roles. This ambitious new production stars Ross Barnes (Carousel, Opera North; Little Shop of Horrors, White Bear/Landor) as Leo Frank and Lily De-La-Haye as Lucille Frank. Daniel […]
Jason Robert Brown in Concert – Royal Festival Hall
Jason Robert Brown in Concert – Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ While Jason Robert Brown is somewhat exalted in musical theatre circles, in London productions of his musicals have tended to be small, chamber affairs, with Fringe productions arranging his scores to be played with the smallest number of musicians possible. […]
Parade – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Parade continues at C too until 24 August. Although Jason Robert Brown’s Tony Award-winning play is now some 15 years old, it is a seldom-performed show. One of the constraints is the scale of the cast: this production is to be applauded in bringing this rarely seen piece to the Fringe. Set in the American […]
