The Golden Age of Broadway: BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There was something for everyone in the musical feast laid on by the BBC Concert Orchestra and five top-drawer vocalists for a packed Royal Albert Hall in celebration of the Great American Songbook. […]
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Oklahoma! is Grange Park Opera’s first musical in new location
Oklahoma!, with Dex Lee as Curly, Katie Hall as Laurey and Claire Moore as Aunt Eller, will be Grange Park Opera’s first musical since the company moved from Hampshire to Surrey last June and built its own 700-seater Theatre in the Woods at West Horsley Place. The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic will open on 7 […]
Anything Goes: A Celebration of the Music of Cole Porter – Cadogan Hall
Anything Goes: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Music of Cole Porter at Cadogan Hall, London continues until 23 August. Goodness knows why we need a reason to celebrate the genius of Cole Porter, but the official excuse for these two beautiful hours of unadulterated joy is that 50 years ago in October the great man left us […]
