Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s critically acclaimed Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) will follow its sold-out world premiere run at London’s Park Theatre with a season in the West End ahead of a UK tour.
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Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] – Park Theatre
Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] continues at the Park Theatre, London until 9 July 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Everyone with an interest in UK politics has an opinion about ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Whether positive or negative, that opinion might put one off attending a show called […]
Cast unveiled for Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera)
Comedian and singer Charlie Baker will play Tony Blair alongside West End star Gary Trainor as Gordon Brown when Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) receives its world premiere at London’s Park Theatre this summer. Baker, whose comedy credits include appearing on hit TV shows including Harry Hill’s Teatime, The […]
World premiere for satirical show Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera)
Comedy star Harry Hill and composer Steve Brown’s Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) will receive its world premiere at London’s Park Theatre this summer. Featuring a book by Hill and music and lyrics by Brown, the show which takes a comic look at the controversial former PM and his journey from student wannabe rock […]
Little Women and Tony Blair musicals lined up for new season at London’s Park Theatre
The London premiere of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Little Women and a work-in-progress presentation of Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s Tony!(The Tony Blair Rock Opera) will feature in the autumn to spring season at London’s Park Theatre. Presented by the team behind last year’s successful transfer season of RAGS The Musical, Aria Entertainment, Hope Mill […]
Once – Fairfield Halls, Croydon and Touring
Once plays at Ashcroft Playhouse, Fairfield Halls, Croydon until 11 January 2020 before the tour continues. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Based on John Carney’s film, this show – first staged in 2011 – tells the story of a local musician and a young Czech woman whose paths cross in Dublin. […]
Full cast for first UK tour of Once
Full casting has been unveiled for the first UK tour of the multi award-winning Broadway and West End musical Once. Launching following a festive run at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls (19 December 2019 to 11 January 2020), the production which received its regional premiere at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich in 2018 will hit the road […]
Once – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Once was reviewed at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. The show transfers to the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch from 3-20 October 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Once, a multi-Tony Award winner, clearly delighted its Ipswich audience. It is original too: declining the avenue of clichéd musical, it embraces music and lyrics […]
BEAM 2018 – shining a light on talent with 58 new British musicals in development
Musical Theatre Review’s Tina Foote previews BEAM 2018, the Biennial Industry Showcase for New British Musical Theatre Writing, running from 1-2 March at London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East. This weekend Everybody’s Talking About Jamie won Best New Musical in the WhatsOnStage Awards after a successful transfer from the Sheffield Crucible to the West End, now happily […]
Oxy and the Morons – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Oxy and the Morons was performed at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Getting the band, or a similar creative collective, back together via rows, regret, love and a happy denouement is a tried and trusted trope on screen and stage. As a music genre, punk is […]
New Wolsey’s Oxy and the Morons – rehearsals begin in Ipswich
Rehearsals have begun for the New Wolsey Theatre’s new actor-musician production Oxy and the Morons which is due to play the Ipswich venue from 12 to 21 October. Directed by the New Wolsey’s artistic director Peter Rowe, the new musical was written by Mike Peters and Steve Allan Jones from the rock band The Alarm […]
The Last Five Years – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
The Last Five Years continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 11 March. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle The Last Five Years is the story of the breakdown of a relationship, starting at the end. So we first meet Cathy reading Jamie’s goodbye letter, before […]
The Last Five Years at the New Wolsey Theatre – Chris Cowley joins Katie Birtill in cast
Chris Cowley will join Katie Birtill in the cast of The Last Five Years, the first production in Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre 15th birthday season this February. Birtill, who took the title role in the venue’s production of Sweet Charity last autumn will play alongside Cowley whose first role after graduation was as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever […]
New Wolsey Ipswich birthday season includes The Last Five Years and Sweeney Todd
Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre will be celebrating its 15th birthday next year with a spring season that includes a revival of the production that marked its reopening in 2001, Sweeney Todd. The Sondheim classic is one of a series of major productions featured in a packed anniversary season that will begin on 25 February 2016 with The […]
Leader of the Pack – the Ellie Greenwich Musical – Waterloo East Theatre
Leader of the Pack – the Ellie Greenwich Musical continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 31 October. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Pigeonhole this production, at the compact but still quite charming Waterloo East Theatre, as just another jukebox musical and all those behind its creation and slick execution […]
Rebecca Applin is Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer
Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network have announced that Rebecca Applin will be the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, starting in October 2015. Rebecca Applin said: “I am thrilled to have been given the opportunity to be resident composer at the Mercury Theatre and the New Wolsey Theatre. […]
Sweet Charity – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Sweet Charity continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 26 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There is a bitter sweet quality in a good production of Sweet Charity, and Peter Rowe’s staging brings out all the comic tragedy of Neil Simon’s book. We see the seedy side of 1960s New York through the eyes of […]
Katie Birtill cast as lead in Sweet Charity at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich is producing a new actor-musician production of the musical Sweet Charity which runs from Thursday 3 to Saturday 26 September, directed by artistic director Peter Rowe. Katie Birtill, who will be playing the lead role of Charity Valentine, was initially studying medicine at Bristol University before she decided to take the plunge and go into […]
Midsummer Songs – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Midsummer Songs continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 27 September. For this brand new production the New Wolsey tweaks its deserved reputation for musical theatre to present, instead, a play with music. While the theme of a 25-year university reunion and the setting in a remote cottage in the middle of Wales augers well for […]
