Moonfleet continues at the Salisbury Playhouse until 5 May 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ J Meade Falkner’s novel Moonfleet is ripe for the transition from page to stage. If anything, it’s a more rollicking yarn than Treasure Island. Smugglers, contraband, hidden treasure, creepy crypts, storms at sea, shipwrecks, a youthful […]
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Cast revealed for Moonfleet musical at Salisbury Playhouse
Casting has been announced for the premiere of a major new musical based on classic adventure story Moonfleet which is due to open at the Salisbury Playhouse in April. Heading the cast are: Earl Carpenter (Les Misérables; The Phantom of the Opera; Sunset Boulevard) playing Maskew, with Ryan Heenan (Grease, UK tour; Sweeney Todd, Derby […]
Babes in Arms – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Babes in Arms continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London until 7 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ All Star Productions once again digs deep into the bowels of musical theatre to find a lost show that – as you watch it – you realise isn’t actually all that lost. […]
Norma Jeane the Musical – Lost Theatre
Norma Jeane the Musical continues at the Lost Theatre, London until 18 June. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It was appropriate to have the press night of Norma Jeane the Musical on 1 June, when, had she lived, the legendary Marilyn Monroe would have celebrated her 90th birthday. The Lost Theatre created a fabulous atmospheric welcome […]
