Gatsby continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 8 January 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The beauty of creating atmosphere in a novel is that so much of the heavy lifting is done in the imagination of the reader. Adaptations often fall short when bringing well-realised fictional worlds to other mediums, […]
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Jodie Steele and Ross William Wild to star in Gatsby: The Musical
Jodie Steele and Ross William Wild will return to the central roles of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby for the festive run of Ruby in the Dust Theatre’s Gatsby: The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse. Steele (SIX The Musical, Heathers) and Wild (Million Dollar Quartet, American Idiot) will be joined by Luke Bayer (Everybody’s Talking […]
New cast members and dates for Gatsby online concert
West End stars Jodie Steele and Liam Doyle are among the new cast members announced for the upcoming digital concert version of Gatsby A Musical later this month. Steele (Six The Musical, Heathers) will play Daisy Buchanan with Doyle (Wicked, Legally Blonde) as her husband Tom and Joe Frost (Jersey Boys, An Officer and a […]
Semi-staged concert performance of Gatsby musical to be streamed online
Olivier Award nominee Charlotte Wakefield will star opposite former Spandau Ballet singer Ross William Wild in a special concert version of Gatsby A Musical which will be made available online next month. Wakefield (Spring Awakening, The Sound of Music) will play Daisy Buchanan alongside Wild’s (Million Dollar Quartet, American Idiot) Jay Gatsby in the socially-distanced […]
TOUR NEWS: The Addams Family, Blood Brothers, Grease, Million Dollar Quartet, Milky Peaks and Everything Is Absolutely Fine
Angela Thomas catches up with the latest touring news… THE ADDAMS FAMILY Samantha Womack and Cameron Blakely will return as Morticia and Gomez when they take their creepy and kooky brood on the road again this summer in a new touring production of The Addams Family musical. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and […]
Million Dollar Quartet – York Theatre Royal and Touring
Million Dollar Quartet was reviewed at York Theatre Royal and continues touring until 25 November. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Most people’s Mount Rushmore of rock‘n’roll stars would include Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, the four heroes at the core of Million Dollar Quartet. Some might […]
Million Dollar Quartet – Royal Festival Hall and Touring
Million Dollar Quartet continues at the Royal Festival Hall, London until 2 January and then tours until June 2017. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ We’ve had productions aplenty about another Fab Four down the years, but thankfully here we’re not focusing on The Cavern yet again, but an ex-auto parts shop […]
