Flowers for Mrs Harris continues at Riverside Studios, London until 25 November 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This beautiful show reminds us that dreams do matter, goodness and kindness are important, being classy is not about the money, and that love is the thread that holds us all together. It is life-affirming, life-enhancing and hopeful.
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Jenna Russell leads London premiere of Flowers For Mrs Harris
Olivier Award-winner Jenna Russell will take on the title role when the critically acclaimed musical Flowers For Mrs Harris receives its London premiere at Riverside Studios later this month.
Chichester’s Flowers For Mrs Harris cast reunites for first official recording
The cast of the Chichester Festival Theatre’s hit 2018 production of Flowers For Mrs Harris has been reunited for the first official recording of Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff’s award-winning musical. Due for release on CD and download on 3 December 2020 by SimG Records, the cast album was recorded in July this year. Unveiling […]
Flowers for Mrs Harris – Chichester Festival Theatre
Flowers for Mrs Harris continues at Chichester Festival Theatre until 29 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Daniel Evans’ farewell production at The Crucible, Sheffield before taking over as Chichester’s artistic director was the staging of this new British musical, based on the 1958 novella by Paul Gallico. Rachel Wagstaff […]
Musical highlights of Chichester Festival Theatre 2018 season are Flowers For Mrs Harris and Me and My Girl
Productions of the Noel Gay classic Me and My Girl and new musical Flowers For Mrs Harris will be the musical highlights of artistic director Daniel Evans and executive director Rachel Tackley’s star-studded second season at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Following on from a record-breaking 2017, the new season will feature a mix of major revivals […]
The Go-Between – Apollo Theatre
The Go-Between at the Apollo Theatre, London until 15 October. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This is a haunting musical evocation of ‘the past is a foreign country’ novel by LP Hartley that became a memorable Julie Christie movie in the 1970s, but whether it has a future in the jukebox-saturated West End will […]
Flowers for Mrs Harris – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Flowers for Mrs Harris continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 4 June. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Daniel Evans, in the programme notes for his last production as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, claims that Music and Lyrics Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff’s Flowers for Mrs Harris has something of the Wagnerian […]
Interview – Clare Burt on Flowers for Mrs Harris and creating new work
Actress CLARE BURT (This is My Family, London Road) has returned to Sheffield Theatres to take on the title role in the world premiere of Flowers for Mrs Harris, Daniel Evans’ final production as artistic director at the venue (opening tonight, 23 May). The new musical by Richard Taylor (The Go-Between, Tom’s Midnight Garden) and Rachel Wagstaff (Birdsong, Moonshadow), based […]
Michael Crawford returns to West End in musical The Go-Between
Michael Crawford – internationally renowned for originating the title role in The Phantom of the Opera and loved by millions for his role as the hapless Frank Spencer in the classic British sitcom Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em – will return to London’s West End this summer in a new production of The Go-Between. Based on the […]
Sheffield Theatres season features new British musical Flowers For Mrs Harris
Artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, Daniel Evans has revealed that he will direct the world premiere of a new British musical Flowers For Mrs Harris as part of the company’s new season (18 May to 4 June 2016, press night is 23 May). The piece is written by Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff, based on the novel by Paul Gallico, […]
London Fringe update – She Loves Me, Whistle Down the Wind, Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
Whistle Down the Wind – Union Theatre (28 January to 21 February – press night is 30 January) Sasha Regan directs Whistle Down the Wind (adapted by Russell Labey and Richard Taylor with music and lyrics by Richard Taylor) at the Union Theatre. The time is the late 1950s, the place, a small village in Lancashire. Hurrying to a barn with three rescued kittens, Cathy, […]
