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Tributes paid to much-loved theatre star Gavin Creel
Sutton Foster, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Idina Menzel, Hannah Waddingham, Kristin Chenoweth and Bette Midler are among the many stage and screen stars paying tribute to Tony and Olivier Award-winning Broadway and West End star Gavin Creel who has passed away.
Remembering Sheldon Harnick – Broadway’s own renowned genius of a lyricist
Sheldon Harnick, who has died aged 99 of natural causes, will be remembered for writing some of the cleverest lyrics for musicals such as Fiorello!, Tenderloin, She Loves Me and Fiddler on the Roof among others. Michael Darvell looks back at a long life in American musical theatre…
She Loves Me – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
She Loves Me continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 15 January 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Based upon Miklós László’s play Parfumerie, Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s musical adaptation She Loves Me is an uplifting Christmas gift to us all this year. Ben Stones’ cleverly designed set […]
Cast announced for Sheffield Theatres’ She Loves Me
Sheffield Theatres has confirmed casting for artistic director Robert Hastie’s Christmas production of the 1960s romantic musical comedy She Loves Me at the Crucible. Hastie’s festive follow-up to his Christmas 2019 revival of another classic Broadway musical Guys and Dolls will feature that production’s leading lady Alex Young. Young, who returned to Sheffield in 2019 to […]
New production of She Loves Me for 2021 festive season at the Sheffield Crucible
Sheffield Theatres’ artistic director Robert Hastie will direct a major new production of the 1960s romantic musical comedy She Loves Me at the Crucible this Christmas. One of a number of productions announced for the prestigious venue’s autumn 2021/spring 2022 season, Hastie’s festive follow-up to his Christmas 2019 revival of another classic Broadway musical Guys […]
Ruthie Henshall reschedules tour dates
West End favourite Ruthie Henshall has announced new dates for the UK debut of her hit show In My Life after the tour was shelved due to Covid-closedown. Originally due to arrive in the UK in April following a critic and audience-pleasing tour of Australia, the intimate show which features Henshall accompanied by her musical […]
A tribute to Harold Prince – King of Broadway
The American theatre director and producer Harold Prince, celebrated for some of the most successful musical productions on Broadway and in the West End, recently died at the age of 91. For over 60 years he produced or directed many of the most original musicals in theatre history. Michael Darvell looks back at the life […]
Remembering Barbara Cook (1927-2017) – ‘the world’s greatest and unbeatable voice’
The lights were dimmed on Broadway on 9 August, now that one of the greatest interpreters of the standard song repertoire has finally left us, just a few months after she announced her official retirement and a mere few weeks short of her 90th birthday. This performer was indeed a legend in her own lifetime, […]
She Loves Me – Menier Chocolate Factory
She Loves Me continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 5 March 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick wrote She Loves Me the year before they hit the jackpot with Fiddler On the Roof (1964). The initial Broadway production which starred Barbara Cook and Daniel […]
She Loves Me at the Menier – Les Dennis, Mark Umbers and Katherine Kingsley join cast
With his character’s days on screen numbered, Coronation Street’s Les Dennis is preparing for a role in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s new production of the 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me. Former stand-up comedian and presenter turned actor Dennis will swap the cobbles of Weatherfield for the London stage when he joins the previously announced […]
She Loves Me at the Menier – Scarlett Strallen to lead cast
Leading lady Scarlett Strallen and director Matthew White will return to the Menier Chocolate Factory in November with a new production of the 1960s Broadway musical She Loves Me. The pair who previously worked together on the Menier’s production of Candide will join forces again on the show which will run from 25 November until […]
Hamilton dominates the Tony Awards (plus win for Color Purple’s Cynthia Erivo)
It was, as expected, a landslide, though not a record-breaker, for Hamilton, as the Tony Awards were doled out Sunday night in New York, celebrating the 2015/16 Broadway season. The hip-hop history-lesson blockbuster, centring on Alexander Hamilton and his relationships with the other founding fathers of America, captured 11 of the coveted statuettes, climaxed with […]
She Loves Me – Studio 54, New York
She Loves Me continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, New York until 12 June. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ On the heels of its great Off-Broadway revival of The Robber Bridegroom, the industrious Roundabout Theatre Company outdoes itself with its sublime Broadway remounting of She Loves Me. From its opening […]
Broadway Preview 2016 – from Disaster! to Paramour
Broadway Preview – Ron Cohen reflects on the musical theatre openings during the first half of 2016. While nothing on the immediate horizon seems ready to challenge the primacy of Hamilton as the champion of the 2015/2016 Broadway season, musical theatre gourmands nevertheless can still look forward to a promising buffet of late winter-into-spring openings. […]
She Loves Me Not – Landor Theatre
She Loves Me Not continues on Sunday evenings at the Landor Theatre, London until 29 March. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ Watching the Landor Theatre’s recent revival of She Loves Me, it was clear that the success of the show was in no small part down to a cast that was really gelling together. And […]
She Loves Me – Landor Theatre
She Loves Me continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 7 March. Star rating: 4 stars **** It’s 20 years since She Loves Me won five Oliviers for the Savoy revival of this sweet, old-fashioned 1963 Bock and Harnick musical and one of those award-winners, Tracie Bennett, Best Supporting Actress as roving-eyed shopgirl Ilona Ritter, was at the Landor’s press […]
Charlotte Jaconelli cast in She Loves Me at the Landor Theatre
Charlotte Jaconelli (2012 Britain’s Got Talent runner-up) will play Amalia Balash in the Landor Theatre’s revival of She Loves Me this February (4 February to 7 March – press night is 9 February). Having trained at Arts Educational School, this is her musical theatre debut. Jaconelli commented: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be making my debut at the fabulous […]
London Fringe update – She Loves Me, Whistle Down the Wind, Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
Whistle Down the Wind – Union Theatre (28 January to 21 February – press night is 30 January) Sasha Regan directs Whistle Down the Wind (adapted by Russell Labey and Richard Taylor with music and lyrics by Richard Taylor) at the Union Theatre. The time is the late 1950s, the place, a small village in Lancashire. Hurrying to a barn with three rescued kittens, Cathy, […]
