Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics), on general release. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Blue Moon isn’t a comfortable watch, but it’s a highly rewarding one.
Tag Archives | Richard Rodgers
Music Review: The Boys From Syracuse – Original London Cast
The Boys from Syracuse – Original London Cast (Jay Records CDTER 1078). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Could the National Theatre or the Royal Shakespeare Company have a new hit with a show like The Boys from Syracuse?
West End transfer for Tony Award-winning production of Oklahoma!
Daniel Fish’s innovative 2019 Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s much-loved Oklahoma! will follow its successful Young Vic run with a West End transfer in early 2023. Presented by Eva Price, Sonia Friedman Productions and Michael Harrison in association with the Young Vic, the Bard SummerScape production of Oklahoma! will open at Wyndham’s Theatre […]
UK tour encore for The King and I
The multi Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater production of The King and I will embark on its second UK tour from January 2023. Following on from its record-breaking season at the London Palladium in 2018 and its previous, also record-breaking, UK and international tour which began in April 2019, Bartlett Sher’s acclaimed Broadway production will […]
Gotta Have Hart and Hammerstein: Steve Ross – The Pheasantry
Gotta Have Hart and Hammerstein: Steve Ross at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Manhattan cabaret legend Steve Ross may be in his ninth decade but it’s all still there, the charm, the sophistication, the style of a bygone era and, above all, the knowledge. This was yet another […]
Some Enchanted Evening – Cadogan Hall, London
Some Enchanted Evening continues until 20 August at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Spanning over 60 years, the career of composer Richard Rodgers, in his partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, is celebrated by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, a choir from Arts Educational Schools, […]
Interview – Michael Xavier on Richard Rodgers tribute, Some Enchanted Evening
This week West End leading man MICHAEL XAVIER will join Ruthie Henshall, Lesley Garrett and Gary Wilmot in Some Enchanted Evening, a series of concerts at Cadogan Hall celebrating the timeless music of Broadway legend Richard Rodgers. Presented by Garrett, the four performances running from 18 August until 20 August will feature the four vocalists […]
Babes in Arms – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Babes in Arms continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London until 7 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ All Star Productions once again digs deep into the bowels of musical theatre to find a lost show that – as you watch it – you realise isn’t actually all that lost. […]
Rodgers Revealed – JW3
Rodgers Revealed was performed at JW3, London. Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The duo that put together Bernstein Revealed at St James Studio reprised a former show in a similar format, Rodgers Revealed. Edward Seckerson and Jason Carr drew upon their vast knowledge of the scores and the stories behind them to create an intimate […]
Do I Hear a Waltz? – New York City Center
Do I Hear a Waltz?, an Encores! production at New York City Center. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Richard Rodgers, composing toward the end of his illustrious career, emerges as the real star of the Encores! mounting of Do I Hear a Waltz?, the 1965 musical which also features lyrics by […]
Garrett and Henshall lead Rodgers tribute at Cadogan Hall
The timeless music of Richard Rodgers will be celebrated with a short series of special performances at London’s Cadogan Hall this summer. Hosted by Lesley Garrett and starring Ruthie Henshall and special guests, Some Enchanted Evening is a musical tribute to the multi award-winning stage and screen composer. Each of the four performances between 18 and […]
Carousel – Arcola Theatre
Carousel continues at the Arcola Theatre, London, until 19 July. Once cited by Richard Rodgers as his favourite of all his musicals, Carousel, his second major collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II, tells the dark tale of barker Billy Bigelow, who in the course of the show is fired from his job, hits his wife, turns criminal, […]
Rodgers Revealed – St James Theatre Studio
Rodgers Revealed, with Anna Francolini, Edward Seckerson and Jason Carr, was performed as part of the London Festival of Cabaret at the St James Theatre Studio, London. From the moment the piano started up with those well-known tunes deftly strung together by the pianist and composer Jason Carr, we knew we were in for a […]
Composer Adam Guettel – why he is drawn to cabaret
Composer, lyricist, performer, teacher and conservationist, Adam Guettel, a patron of the 2014 London Festival of Cabaret, will appear in concert and conversation with Maria Friedman at the Ambassadors Theatre on 20 and 21 May. Guettel’s musical The Light In The Piazza premiered on Broadway in 2005 and received six Tony Awards. Guettel also wrote […]
Do I Hear a Waltz? – Park Theatre
Do I Hear A Waltz? continues at the Park Theatre, London, until 30 March. Watching the witty and charming end-product at the cosy 200-seater Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, it was hard to imagine that the birth of Do I Hear A Waltz? almost half a century ago was so beset by behind-the-scenes disharmony. With […]
Do I Hear a Waltz? – Rebecca Seale does
Actress Rebecca Seale is taking on the lead role of Leona Samish in Charles Court’s version of the seldom-performed musical Do I Hear a Waltz? The musical is based on Arthur Laurents’ play The Time of the Cuckoo and was adapted into a musical by Laurents, Richard Rodgers (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics). Charles Court Opera’s […]
Kim Criswell and Louise Dearman celebrate Richard Rodgers
On Saturday March 8 Kim Criswell and Louise Dearman will join the Nash Ensemble (the chamber ensemble in residence at London’s Wigmore Hall) for a special concert, A Celebration of Richard Rodgers On Broadway: Act III, recalling the final works – over two decades – of Broadway’s most successful composer. As part of the Nash […]
Leanne Masterton – Crazy Coqs
Leanne Masterton performed Something Good at the Crazy Coqs, London. The tinkling piano strains to be heard over yet another packed house at the Crazy Coqs, as this most enchanting of London venues plays host to Leanne Masterton, performing her one-woman tribute to Richard Rodgers. A newcomer to this stage, Masterton has already performed in occasional […]
