Ruddigore continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 25 March 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ For decades I’ve struggled to understand why Gilbert and Sullivan’s magnificent gothic send-up isn’t better known. The score, which I’ve known and loved since my teens, includes some of Sullivan’s loveliest gems.
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Victorian ghosts and a sensational cast for Ruddigore at Wilton’s Music Hall
Victorian ghosts and a sensational cast are set to raise the roof at Wilton’s Music Hall in an unmissable production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore or The Witch’s Curse, from 14-25 March 2023.
Musicals Mash Up: 10-16 October 2022
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports.
The Great British Bake Off: The Musical – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
The Great British Bake Off: The Musical was performed at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ To see a world premiere of a production based around a much-loved TV show at a theatre very close to my heart makes me beam with excitement and pride. The team at […]
West End stars feature in cast of Bake Off musical
West End stars John Owen-Jones and Rosemary Ashe will play the cookery show judges in the world premiere production of Bake Off the Musical at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre from 22 July 2022. Owen-Jones (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables) and Ashe (The Witches of Eastwick, Oliver!) will appear alongside Jaye Jacobs (The Addams Family, […]
Call Me Madam – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Call Me Madam continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 10 October 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Whereas the open air in Regent’s Park is reaching the final week of its resolutely modern reimagining of the classic musical Carousel, Upstairs at the Gatehouse is treating us to a most […]
Mark Giesser to direct Rosemary Ashe in Call Me Madam at London’s Gatehouse
Director Mark Giesser will return to London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse next month with his new production of the classic Broadway musical comedy Call Me Madam. Following on from hit versions of the dark Gershwin satire Strike Up the Band and the rarely-performed Broadway musical Once Upon a Mattress in 2019 and 2020, Giesser will […]
New Novello-inspired show to close London Song Festival
This year’s London Song Festival will close with a specially commissioned show featuring West End stars and the music of Ivor Novello and Noël Coward. Set on the empty stage of Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 5 September 1939 when all theatres were closed due to the outbreak of the Second World War, Ghost Lights […]
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾: The Musical – Ambassadors Theatre
Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾: The Musical continues at the Ambassadors Theatre, London until 12 October 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ To paraphrase another 1980s hit, it’s ’orrible being in love when you’re 13 and three quarters. But Sue Townsend’s comic novel The Secret Diary […]
A Christmas Carol The Musical – Lyceum Theatre
A Christmas Carol The Musical at the Lyceum Theatre, London. There are also performances at 4pm and 7.30pm on 17 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ An uplifting and enjoyable evening, this event was supporting ground-breaking global research into life-limiting blood conditions at King’s College London and its hospital partners. Made all the […]
LMTO’s A Christmas Carol – full cast confirmed
Full casting has been revealed for this year’s London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol. Now firmly established as one of the highlights of the festive season following sold-out performances in 2016 and 2017, LMTO’s version of the 1994 Broadway musical reworking of Charles Dickens’ […]
Griff Rhys Jones to star as Scrooge in LMTO’s A Christmas Carol
Griff Rhys Jones will star as Ebenezer Scrooge in this year’s London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol. Now firmly established as one of the highlights of the festive season following sold-out performances in 2016 and 2017, LMTO’s version of the 1994 Broadway musical reworking […]
Tonight at 8:30 – Jermyn Street Theatre
Tonight at 8:30 continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 20 May 2018. Star rating: four stars ★★★★☆ Nothing embodies the breadth and depth of Noël Coward’s writing abilities quite like Tonight at 8:30, his cycle of ten one-act plays designed to be performed in repertory by the same company over three evenings. From the steamy heat […]
Honeymoon in Vegas – Maxwell Caulfield and Simon Lipkin join cast
Maxwell Caulfield, Rosemary Ashe, Nicolas Colicos and Simon Lipkin have joined the principal cast for the London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert staging of Honeymoon in Vegas at the London Palladium on 12 March. Caulfield (Guys and Dolls), Ashe (Sister Act), Colicos (Annie Get Your Gun) and Lipkin (Guys and Dolls) will join the previously announced […]
Sister Act – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Sister Act continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 1 October and then tours until 27 August 2017. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ While it’s a long time since I settled down on a Saturday evening to watch X Factor, I do remember watching Alexandra Burke’s ‘journey’ to victory in 2008. […]
Scott Evan Davis – The Pheasantry
Scott Evan Davis at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ New York-based composer Scott Evan Davis has been compared to the likes of Kerrigan-Lowdermilk, Georgia Stitt and Lance Horne. As evidenced by his debut show at London’s Pheasantry – the first such show produced by Woking-based internet radio show […]
Artists line up to join Scott Evan Davis at The Pheasantry
The line-up for New York-based composer/lyricist Scott Evan Davis’ show at The Pheasantry in London’s Kings Road on Sunday has been revealed. Presented by the UK’s Sunday Show Tunes in collaboration with executive producer Maureen Rejali, the show will feature Davis on piano alongside UK artists Rosemary Ashe, Luke Bayer, Ailsa Davidson, Willy Falk, Ilan […]
CD review – Ms. A Song Cycle
Ms. A SONG CYCLE – Various Artists (SimG Records – SimGR-CD030) What a wonderful idea to help bring a bit more understanding of a truly dreadful disease – put it in song and get wonderful West End ladies to record the cycle, hopefully give it more substance and let the public know what it’s like to […]
Sister Act tour – Jon Robyns and Rosemary Ashe join cast
Casting details for the national tour of Curve’s all new production of the musical comedy Sister Act, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, have been revealed. The show opens at Curve on Saturday 30 July 2016. Joining the previously announced Alexandra Burke as Deloris Van Cartier will be Joanna Francis as Michelle, Jon Robyns as Eddie, Karen Mann as Mother Superior and Rosemary Ashe as Sister Mary Lazarus. Burke will perform the […]
Rosemary Ashe cast in The Great Trailer Park Musical UK premiere
Olivier nominee Rosemary Ashe (The Witches of Eastwick, Mary Poppins) will head the first UK cast for the London premiere of The Great American Trailer Park Musical next month. Ashe will be joined by Sabrina Aloueche (We Will Rock You), Jemma Alexander (The Sound of Music), Jodie Steele (The War of the Worlds), Michelle Bishop […]
Crush – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Touring
Crush continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until 19 September. The show will then play at Theatre Royal Brighton (22–26 September) and Richmond Theatre (29 September–3 October). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It’s 1963 and we’re at the Dame Dorothea Dosserdale School for Girls. The old liberal order has changed with the arrival of a new tyrannical headmistress, Miss […]
Brand new musical Crush – a sneak peek at rehearsals
Belgrade Theatre Coventry and Big Broad Productions are presenting Crush, a brand new musical, currently premiering at the Belgrade, running until Saturday 19 September 2015. The show will then play at Theatre Royal Brighton (22–26 September) and Richmond Theatre (29 September–3 October). It’s 1963 and Dame Dorothea Dosserdale School for Girls has a proud tradition of fostering free spirits from all walks […]
New musical Crush at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – Rosemary Ashe, Sara Crowe and Kirsty Malpass cast
Belgrade Theatre Coventry and Big Broad Productions present Crush, the brand new musical, which will premiere at the Belgrade, running from Friday 4 to Saturday 19 September 2015. The show will then run at Theatre Royal Brighton (22–26 September) and Richmond Theatre (29 September–3 October). Starring Rosemary Ashe, Sara Crowe and Kirsty Malpass, the show is presented […]
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ – The Musical – Curve Leicester
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ – The Musical continues at Curve Leicester until 4 April. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Child actors who win plum parts like these are always going to be good, but 14-year old Joel Fossard-Jones – one of four Adrian Moles recruited for this world premiere production – has the audience on […]
Adrian Mole musical at Curve – full cast revealed
The full cast for the world premiere of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ – The Musical has been revealed by Curve, Leicester today. The cast includes Rosemary Ashe (Grandma), Cameron Blakely (Mr Lucas), Amy Booth-Steel (Miss Elf/Doreen Slater/Mrs Lucas), Neil Ditt (George Mole), Kirsty Hoiles (Pauline Mole) and Neil Salvage (Bert Baxter). The role of Adrian will be shared by Lewis Andrews, Sebastian Croft, Joel Fossard-Jones and Toby […]
