The world’s longest-running musical, Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a star-studded charity gala performance on 8 October.
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Music Review: Why am I So Single? – Original London Cast Recording
Why Am I So Single? – Original London Cast Recording (Warner Chappell Music). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Listening to the cast album of Why Am I So Single? makes one appreciate the songwriting skills in the musical even more than its original staging did. More than that, it reaffirms that there’s something worth treasuring.
London dates for Broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone
Broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone are heading back to London to play one-night-only concerts.
Company scoops five Tony Awards but there are big wins for Six, MJ and A Strange Loop too
While Marianne Elliott’s production of Company received five prizes at the 75th Annual Tony Awards, it was quite a democratic night for the nominated musicals with Six: The Musical, A Strange Loop, MJ, Paradise Square and Girl From the North Country all having something to celebrate. The gender-swapped staging of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company repeated a large […]
Company and Six are big winners at the Drama Desk Awards 2022
Both Company and Six each won in four categories at the Drama Desk Awards 2022, held this week at Sardi’s Restaurant in New York. Kimberly Akimbo was named the Outstanding Musical. The newly created Ensemble Award went to SIX: The Musical’s Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macasaet, Brittney Mack, Abby Mueller, Samantha Pauly and Anna Uzele. Founded in 1955, the Drama Desk Awards […]
Singer-songwriter and actress Ann Hampton Callaway chats about life during lockdown & returning to the joy of live music and theatre
Chicago-born singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY was recently in London performing her show The Judy Garland Songbook at The Pheasantry and Cinematic Serenade at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho. In high school, Ann performed in musicals and after graduation studied acting at the University of Illinois […]
Five Questions With: Jennifer Ashley Tepper
JENNIFER ASHLEY TEPPER – the acclaimed young theatre writer and historian – recently released her new book The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 2020-2021 Broadway shutdown. The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4 – featuring interviews with Patti LuPone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Donna Murphy, Jonathan Groff, Julie Taymor, […]
Take Me To The World: Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
Take Me To The World: Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration – Live on Broadway.com’s YouTube channel. Never mind it’s over a month since Stephen Sondheim celebrated his 90th birthday, never mind the show started 70 minutes past its advertised time because of technical difficulties, this almighty love-in for a musical legend was well worth the wait. […]
New look Company’s West End season extended
Just hours after a star-studded opening night, the producers of Marianne Elliott’s critically-acclaimed gender-swapped version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company have released 100,000 extra tickets for the hit show with booking now extended until 30 March 2019. Andrew Garfield, Graham Norton and Emma Thompson were among the stars in the audience at the […]
Company – Gielgud Theatre
Company continues at the Gielgud Theatre, London until 22 December 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fuddy-duddy traditionalists who don’t normally like great works being tweaked or updated will be approaching this gender-bending revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical Company with trepidation but they needn’t worry – it’s wonderful. This most […]
Amy becomes Jamie as Jonathan Bailey and Alex Gaumond join cast of re-gendered Company
Jonathan Bailey, Alex Gaumond and Daisy Maywood will complete the cast for Marianne Elliott’s eagerly-anticipated gender-swapped version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company. Bailey (American Psycho, Almeida, Othello, National Theatre) will play the re-gender-switched role of Jamie (originally Amy) opposite Gaumond (Matilda, We Will Rock You, West End) who will play his devoted fiancée Paul. […]
More gender-blind casting for the West End cast of Company
Richard Fleesham, George Blagden and Matthew Seadon-Young will take on key roles in Marianne Elliott’s eagerly anticipated gender-swapped version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company. The trio will play the re-gendered and re-named by Sondheim roles of the three boyfriends of central character Bobbie (Rosalie Craig) in the production which will begin previewing at […]
Mel Giedroyc joins cast of Company at the Gielgud alongside Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone
Mel Giedroyc will join the cast of Elliott & Harper’s highly-anticipated new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Tony Award-winning musical Company, directed by Marianne Elliott. It will run at the Gielgud Theatre from 26 September 2018 for a limited run. Giedroyc will play Sarah and joins Rosalie Craig as Bobbi, a role re-imagined […]
Patti LuPone and Rosalie Craig cast in gender-bending production of Company
Actresses Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone will lead the cast in Marianne Elliott’s forthcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company at the Gielgud Theatre (beginning for a limited season on 26 September 2018), presented by Elliott & Harper Productions (the company she recently founded with producer Chris Harper). It is the first time the […]
War Paint – Nederlander Theatre, New York
War Paint continues at the Nederlander Theatre, New York. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It has a great title, a great concept and two great female stars of Broadway theatre heading a talented company. There’s also a bounty of handsome costumes and sets, but beyond all this, things about War Paint […]
Patti LuPone – Leicester Square Theatre
Playing at the Leicester Square Theatre, London until 23rd June. It’s not often we get a real live Broadway musical theatre legend in the West End and fans, among them Adele, were out in force for Patti LuPone’s opening night at the Leicester Square Theatre. A belter in the Ethel Merman tradition and an actress […]
London cabaret Sondheim style
London cabaret gets a new spin with the launch of a series of Stephen Sondheim Society presentations at London’s Leicester Square Theatre Lounge, teeing off with actress Rachael Louise Miller on Wednesday, 19 June. These one-hour shows, starting at 7pm, will feature rising talents and more established names performing programmes in which Sondheim’s work will […]
