The Addams Family was reviewed at Curve Leicester where it runs until 10 August 2025. The tour continues until 30 August 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Some fantastic performances make it definitely worth a watch, it just should be much more of a scream.
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Jesus Christ Superstar The Concert – Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park
Jesus Christ Superstar The Concert continues at the Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park, London until 27 September 2020. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is musical theatre’s most unlikely unifier. Though it did encounter some controversy on its 1971 premiere, it has now been embraced by the public and all but the […]
Live big screen relay for Regent’s Park’s Jesus Christ Superstar concert
Performances of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar will be relayed ‘live’ to thousands of additional ticket holders from 19 August 2020. Tickets costing £20 are now on sale for Superstar On-Screen, an initiative that will allow up to 5,000 extra audience members to […]
Double-casting for leads in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Jesus Christ Superstar
The lead roles in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar have been double cast to allow for changes necessary to adhere to Government safety guidelines for outdoor live performances. The production’s original Jesus, singer-songwriter Declan Bennett, will share the title role with the star […]
Zorro The Musical in Concert – Cadogan Hall
Zorro The Musical in Concert at Cadogan Hall, London Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Based on a 1919 novel set in 18th century California, the stories of Zorro are well known from numerous film and TV adaptations, as are the hit songs of the hugely successful Gipsy Kings. The films succeed because […]
Five Questions With: Ricardo Afonso
RICARDO AFONSO is playing the titular role and Diego in Zorro in concert, featuring the music of the Gipsy Kings, at London’s Cadogan Hall on Sunday 23 February 2020. Accompanied by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, the cast also includes Lesli Margherita, Emma Williams, Zubin Varla and Robert Tripolino. Ricardo most recently starred in Regent’s […]
Cast for Zorro London concert
Zubin Varia and Robert Tripolino will complete the cast of the UK concert premiere of Zorro at London’s Cadogan Hall on 23 February. Recently seen in Ghost Quartet at the Boulevard Theatre, Olivier Award nominee Varla (Fun Home, Young Vic) will play Don Alejandro alongside Afonso (High Fidelity, Turbine Theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar, Barbican) as […]
First casting news for concert version of Zorro
Ricardo Afonso will take the title in the UK concert premiere of Zorro The Musical at London’s Cadogan Hall early next year. The actor whose credits include We Will Rock You and Jesus Christ Superstar will star as Zorro/Diego opposite Broadway’s Lesli Margherita (Matilda, Dames At Sea) who will reprise her Olivier Award-winning performance as […]
Kerry Ellis and Lee Mead join The Night of Electric Voices line-up
Kerry Ellis, who takes over from Nicole Scherzinger as Grizabella in the current West End production of Cats, will feature in The Night of Electric Voices on Sunday 1 March at the London Coliseum. She will be joined by Casualty actor and winner of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Any Dream Will Do, Lee Mead, as well as many stars of the West End and Broadway. The […]
Book and CD reviews – Paradise Lost, West End Goes Mad, Michael Ball and more…
NICK WAKEHAM casts an eye over some of the latest CD releases– perhaps a few belated Christmas presents? PARADISE LOST – Various Artists (SimG Records – SimGR-CD023) Inspired by the epic poem by John Milton, this new version of Paradise Lost is an intimate love story set against an impressive war taking place in Heaven. Built around […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown has official London launch
Last night saw a frenzied reception for the launch of the UK premiere of new musical comedy Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The Institute of Contemporary Arts was packed to capacity with theatre glitterati and members of the press being serenaded by flamenco guitars, while carefully appointed screens spooled scenes from the original movie. Based […]
Willemijn Verkaik joins the Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
New musical comedy Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown will boast an international cast with Ricardo Afonso, Haydn Oakley and Willemijn Verkaik joining the previously announced Tamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne, Jérôme Pradon and Anna Skellern. Additional cast members include Marianne Benedict, Holly James, Michael Matus, Rebecca McKinnis, Sarah Moyle, Alastair Natkiel, Nuno Queimado and Dale Rapley. In addition, the song ‘Madrid’, the opening number from David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s score for the […]
