Further casting has been announced for the autumn return of the WhatsOnStage Award-winning concert presentation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies.
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London School of Musical Theatre – Alice by Heart
Alice by Heart is performed by two casts of London School of Musical Theatre students at the Bridewell Theatre, London until 2 May 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Glory Ride – The Other Palace
Glory Ride was performed at The Other Palace, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Glory Ride, a new musical penned by daughter and father writing team Victoria and Todd Buchholz and directed by Shaun Kerrison, based on the truly inspirational figure of champion cyclist turned anti-Fascist Bartali, is a bold production that attempts to write his name back into the history books and give him the credit his incredibly brave escapades deserve.
The Osmonds A New Musical – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
The Osmonds continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 27 August 2022 and tours until 3 December 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The matrons of Wimbledon were out in force revisiting their youth for this unashamedly jukebox musical about that 1970s phenomenon, the wholesome, squeaky-clean Osmond family. It’s predictable, […]
Full cast announced for The Osmonds: A New Musical
Georgia Lennon, Charlie Allen and Nicola Bryan will play Marie, George, and Olive Osmond respectively in the world premiere of The Osmonds: A New Musical, joining the previously announced Ryan Anderson as Merrill Osmond, Jamie Chatterton as Alan Osmond, Alex Lodge as Jay Osmond, Danny Nattrass as Wayne Osmond, and Joseph Peacock as Donny Osmond. […]
The Drowsy Chaperone – London School of Musical Theatre
The Drowsy Chaperone was performed by London School of Musical Theatre students at the Union Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This might not have been an in-house production at the Union Theatre, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t of the same top quality. This London School of Musical Theatre […]
Osmonds musical – first casting news
Ryan Anderson, Jamie Chatterton, Alex Lodge, Danny Nattrass and Joseph Peacock will play the famous singing siblings in The Osmonds: A New Musical when the bio-show receives its world premiere at Leicester Curve on 3 February 2022 at the start of a UK and Ireland tour which will run through to 3 December 2022. Recently […]
The Osmonds musical to debut in Leicester in February 2022
THE OSMONDS: A New Musical will now receive its world premiere at Leicester Curve on 3 February 2022 as part of a UK and Ireland tour which will run through to 3 December 2022. Originally due to launch at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre in August this year, the show traces the remarkable story of the […]
A Christmas Carol – The Musical Staged Concert – Dominion Theatre
A Christmas Carol – The Musical Staged Concert at the Dominion Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Nobody set out to be an Ebenezer Scrooge this year, but some are being forced into it by circumstance. We are pinching every penny in anticipation of the economic fallout of the pandemic […]
Further casting for A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre
First pictures have been released of Brian Conley and co-stars in rehearsals for the eagerly-anticipated new concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre this festive season. With performances due to begin on 7 December, the rehearsal shots feature Conley, Matt Jay-Willis, Jacqueline Jossa, Lucie Jones, […]
Jacqueline Jossa, Matt Jay-Willis, Lucie Jones, Cedric Neal and Sandra Marvin join Brian Conley in A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre
Busted star Matt Jay-Willis will play Bob Cratchit opposite Brian Conley’s Ebenezer Scrooge in the new concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre. The singer who previously appeared in the West End in Wicked and Little Shop of Horrors will play Scrooge’s downtrodden employee alongside […]
The Osmonds A New Musical to launch in the UK in 2021
Jay Osmond will bring his famous musical family’s story to UK theatres next year with the world premiere of The Osmonds: A New Musical. Launching at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre on 26 August 2021 as part of a UK and Ireland tour which will run through to April 2022, the show will trace the remarkable […]
Brian Conley to star as Scrooge at the Dominion
Brian Conley will take centre stage as Ebenezer Scrooge at the Dominion Theatre this Christmas in a new concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol. The comedian turned musical theatre favourite will take on the iconic role in a special production featuring a cast of over 50 and the […]
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 […]
CD Review – Imaginary – National Youth Music Theatre
IMAGINARY – National Youth Music Theatre (SimG Records) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is the latest release from SimG Records involving the National Youth Music Theatre and it is a corker! Written by Timothy Knapman and Stuart Matthew Price, the production was staged at The Other Palace last year directed by Shaun […]
Camelot – London Palladium
Camelot at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This concert version of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot from London Musical Theatre Orchestra was staged to mark the centenary of Alan Jay Lerner’s birth in October 1918, though it seems like yesterday that he was with us, having settled in London in later […]
Sci-Fi fan musical Fanatical to debut at the Playground Theatre
London’s Playground Theatre will stage the world premiere of Fanatical, a new musical which takes a fond look at the sometimes bizarre and always off-beat world of sci-fi fandom. Due to run from 7 November until 8 December 2018, the musical which was written by Matt Board (Austentatious) and Reina Hardy (Glassheart) will feature a […]
Candide – Cadogan Hall
Candide was performed by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra and Chorus at Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Leonard Bernstein’s bonkers operetta inspired by Voltaire’s Candide received the one-night-only LMTO treatment at Cadogan Hall and it proved to be a glittering affair, reaffirming the London Musical Theatre Orchestra as […]
Guildford School of Acting – The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was performed by Guildford School of Acting musical theatre third years at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Here is a real curio – the European premiere of a show originally written and rejected by the public more than 30 years ago, […]
Of Thee I Sing – Royal Festival Hall
Of Thee I Sing was performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ For their second presentation at the South Bank Centre, Senbla with Elliot Davis presented Of Thee I Sing, the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama when it was produced on Broadway in 1931. […]
