They might (just) be able to beat us at football but British-based casts sure as hell get their own back with Kander and Ebb’s stupendous Cabaret at the sparkling new Lido2 on the Champs-Elysees and a long-delayed revival of tap-tap-tap triumphant 42nd Street at the regal Theatre du Chatelet down by the Seine.
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Musical theatre is bustin’ out all over in Paris
Musical theatre is bustin’ out all over in Paris these autumn days and American actress-impersonator Christina Bianco opens tonight (Thursday) in Funny Girl at the gloriously refurbished Marigny just off the Champs Elysees. Bianco plays old-time Broadway comedienne Fanny Brice in the only part Barbra Streisand ever performed on the West End stage back in […]
White Christmas the Musical – Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas the Musical at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh continues until 4 January, 2014. The wonderful thing about the best musical theatre is how it can so completely transport audiences into another world, despite its obvious artifice. Closely following the plot of the film, albeit with a few additional Berlin songs added in to […]
