42nd Street continues at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, booking until 5 January 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s hard for me not to feel a tad sentimental about 42nd Street. Despite the fact I am getting older and there are moments when I enter a room, not remembering […]
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WhatsOnStage Awards 2018 – 42nd Street and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie come out on top
Leading the pack at the 18th annual WhatsOnStage Awards was 42nd Street, currently running at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, which took home four prizes for Best Musical Revival, Best Choreography, Best Set Design and Best Costume Design – from a total of eight nominations. At a ceremony hosted at the Prince of Wales Theatre […]
42nd Street – Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
42nd Street continues at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It has been 33 years since 42nd Street had its first original London production at the Theatre Royal in 1984, when, in parallel to the production’s book, Catherine Zeta-Jones was plucked from the chorus and placed into the […]
Dames at Sea – Helen Hayes Theatre, New York
Dames at Sea continues at the Helen Hayes Theatre, New York. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Ruby, the heroine of Dames at Sea, is a small town tap-dancing innocent who steps off a bus in New York in the morning, gets cast in a show and through happenstance, gumption and talent […]
Lady, Be Good! – Encores! – New York City Center
Lady, Be Good!, an Encores! production, continues at New York City Center until 8 February. Star rating: 4 stars **** It’s almost worth the price of admission just to hear the orchestra of some 30 musicians romp through the overture of Lady, Be Good!, the 1924 musical that’s being joyfully resurrected as the first offering in the […]
