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Music Review: Baby – Out of the Box Theatrics production
BABY – music by David Shire, lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr, book by Sybille Ann Pearson, based on a story developed with Susan Yankowitz (Yellowsound Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Closer Than Ever – BroadwayHD
Closer Than Ever continues exclusively on BroadwayHD. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Award-winning producers Ginger Quiff Media and BroadwayHD, the streaming service for live theatre, are presenting this brand-new digital revival of the Outer Critics Circle Award-winning musical revue, with music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr, from […]
Starting Here, Starting Now – Waterloo East Theatre
Starting Here, Starting Now continues at the Waterloo East Theatre until 18 July 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire are together best known as collaborators on revue show Closer Than Ever, but their history dates to their days as Yale students together. After leaving university, they […]
Big the Musical – Dominion Theatre
Big the Musical continues at the Dominion Theatre, London until 2 November 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Why does the theatre think it can eclipse the success of one art form by turning it into a musical? Musical theatre shows are seldom totally original entities, but are often adaptations of […]
Closer Than Ever – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – PQA @Riddle’s Court
Closer Than Ever continues at PQA @Riddle’s Court until 27 August 2018 (not 15, 22). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ A classy visual of the cast of three men and three women all dressed in shades of grey and white sets the tone for the piece. The upstage area is used as […]
Interview – Richard Carson on his role in Closer Than Ever at The Pheasantry
Actor and singer RICHARD CARSON is soon to appear in Richard Maltby Jr and David Shire’s critically acclaimed revue Closer Than Ever (25–27 April) at The Pheasantry on London’s King’s Road. In this Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Off-Broadway Alliance Award winning companion to their hit revue Starting Here, Starting Now, Maltby and Shire […]
Starting Here, Starting Now – The Pheasantry
Starting Here, Starting Now at The Pheasantry, London continues until 20 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Three sparking talents, Sam Lupton, Carolyn Maitland and Kayleigh McKnight, turn 24 songs by Richard Maltby Jr and David Shire, not all of them by any means memorable, into a classy, polished revue at […]
Back to Back Maltby and Shire revivals at The Pheasantry
Award-winning independent theatre company Neil Eckersley Productions is to produce revivals of Maltby and Shire’s critically acclaimed revues Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever at London’s The Pheasantry next month. With lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr and music by David Shire, Starting Here, Starting Now is a chronicle of the changing emotions in romantic […]
Just Jim Dale – Still Carrying On – Vaudeville Theatre
Just Jim Dale – Still Carrying On continues at the Vaudeville Theatre, London until 20 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ “What are you off to see at the theatre?” asks my 18-year-old babysitter. “It’s a one-man show,” I reply, “performed by Jim Dale. He’s best known in this country for appearing in 11 Carry On movies. […]
Jim Dale brings his Off-Broadway one-man show to the West End
Following his Off-Broadway success in New York, Tony Award winner, two-time Grammy Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee Jim Dale will bring his critically acclaimed show, Just Jim Dale, to London’s West End in May this year. Previewing from 26 May (press night is 28 May) at the Vaudeville Theatre, where Dale made his West End musical debut […]
Miss Saigon – Prince Edward Theatre
Miss Saigon continues at the Prince Edward Theatre, London (booking until 25 April, 2015). The familiar heart-thudding beats of a helicopter herald the dramatic opening of a new production of Miss Saigon that is every bit as powerful and thrilling as the original show was 25 years ago. The Prince Edward Theatre, now beautifully refurbished, […]
Richard Maltby Jr – Closer Than Ever still brings surprises
Lyricist and director Richard Maltby, Jr. has been in London to direct a revised version of his Off-Broadway hit, Closer Than Ever (written with long-time collaborator David Shire) which has received its European premiere at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre. With Shire, Maltby, Jr. has also written lyrics for Starting Here, Starting Now, Baby, Closer Than Ever and the musical […]
Closer Than Ever – Jermyn Street Theatre
Maltby & Shire’s Closer Than Ever continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 7 June. Following the success of its Off-Broadway revival two years ago and the associated cast album, Richard Maltby, Jr and David Shire’s 1989 musical revue Closer Than Ever has come to London’s Jermyn Theatre Theatre in revised form. As a revue […]
Closer Than Ever – Richard Maltby Jr directs new production
A revised version of the Off-Broadway hit, Richard Maltby, Jr and David Shire’s Closer Than Ever, receives its European premiere at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre (6 May–7 June 2014) in a brand new production directed by Tony Award-winning Maltby himself (Miss Saigon, Starting Here Starting Now, Ain’t Misbehavin’). The production will star Graham Bickley (Ragtime, Miss Saigon, Follies), Sophie-Louise Dann (Lend […]
