Fans of An American in Paris will be able to watch the stage musical up close when it hits cinemas this week. The show premiered in 2014 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris before transferring to the Palace Theatre on Broadway, where it became the most awarded musical of the 2015/16 season, including four […]
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Review: An American in Paris – arriving in cinemas on 16 May
An American in Paris – the film of the original London cast will be shown in 42 cinemas nationally and worldwide on 16 May 2018. Directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For any lover of Gershwin and dance and classic musicals this broadcast is a must. On […]
An American in Paris to arrive in cinemas on 16 May
Highly-acclaimed musical An American in Paris will arrive in cinemas on 16 May 2018 (excluding North America and Japan). An American in Paris premiered in 2014 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris before transferring to the Palace Theatre on Broadway, where it became the most awarded musical of the 2015/16 season, including four Tony […]
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Signature Theatre, New York
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein continues at the Signature Theatre, New York until 7 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For the past 16 years, concert pianist and writer Eve Wolf and her producing organisation, Ensemble for the Romantic Century, have been putting together musical theatre pieces that might well be defined – […]
Oklahoma! – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
Oklahoma! at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Few titles deserve their exclamation mark more than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The score sounds as fresh as it did when it was written in 1943 and at this semi-staged performance there might have been folk […]
An American in Paris – Dominion Theatre
An American in Paris continues at the Dominion Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It was back in December 2014 that our contributor Jeremy Chapman reviewed this reinvention of the wonderful 1951 Oscar-winning Vincente Minnelli/Gene Kelly movie when it opened – rather appropriately – at the Theatre du Chatelet in […]
Darcey Bussell hosts An American in Paris London launch
Ballet superstar and Strictly Come Dancing judge Darcey Bussell hosted a special event last week, offering a sneak preview of her friend Christopher Wheeldon’s reinvention of the Gene Kelly classic An American in Paris which will dance its way into London’s Dominion Theatre in March. Wheeldon and his stars Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope joined Bussell for the […]
An American in Paris – news of full West End cast
Full casting has been announced for Christopher Wheeldon’s reinvention of the Gene Kelly classic An American in Paris which will dance its way into London’s Dominion Theatre early next year. Joining the previously announced stars of the hit Broadway production Robert Fairchild (as Jerry Mulligan) and Leanne Cope (as Lise Dassin) will be Haydn Oakley […]
An American in Paris opens at the Dominion in spring 2017
An American in Paris arrives on the West End stage for the first time when Christopher Wheeldon’s multi award-winning new Broadway musical comes to London’s Dominion Theatre next spring. Inspired by the Oscar-winning film and featuring the music and lyrics of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin with book by Craig Lucas, An American in Paris has preview performances from Saturday 4 March 2017 with […]
Broadway stream of openings kick off with Honeymoon in Vegas
Looking to the first half of 2015 on Broadway, let’s hope that musical first-nighters have a good supply of umbrellas on hand. As Al Jolson liked to tells us, April is celebrated for its showers, and in the last-minute crunch for Tony Award eligibility for the 2014-15 season (23 April is the cut-off date), an […]
An American in Paris – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
An American in Paris continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 4 January. Where else but gay Paree to launch the world premiere of a musical inspired by An American in Paris, the 1951 movie with those unforgettable Gene Kelly dance sequences that won six Oscars and is as much loved today as it […]
