Just So continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 4 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The third and final production of this outdoor summer season on the Lawn continues to bear witness to the Watermill’s views on sustainability, diversity, ecology and everything that has come into sharper focus since […]
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Just So – The Musical – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Just So – The Musical continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 13 January 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is 33 years now since composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe, then students at Exeter University, won the first-ever Vivian Ellis Prize with the musical Just So, currently settling in as the […]
New production of Stiles and Drewe’s Just So to play The Barn in Cirencester
Stiles and Drewe’s musical re-working of Rudyard Kipling’s classic Just So Stories will be the final production in The Barn Theatre’s autumn/winter season. Following on from the Cirencester venue’s hit launch production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden, the family-orientated new production of Just So will feature a cast of actor/musicians directed by […]
Barrack Room Ballads – Youth Music Theatre UK – National Army Museum
Barrack Room Ballads was performed by Youth Music Theatre UK at the National Army Museum, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s an unlikely proposition – a musical version of a set of poems by (deeply unfashionable) Rudyard Kipling performed by 34 teenagers with a seven-piece live band in a tiny space not really […]
Just So – London College of Music
Just So was performed by London College of Music third-year students at Watermans Theatre, Brentford, London. This early Stiles and Drewe musical, a contemporary take on Rudyard Kipling’s much-loved Just So stories, brought the best out of a particularly likeable bunch of students from the musical theatre arm of the University of West London, just […]
