Side Show continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 3 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Broadway has twice given Side Show the thumbs-down – it lasted only 91 performances in 1997 and even fewer when reimagined and darkened in 2014 – but this curio of a musical, loosely based on fact, makes a […]
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Side Show at Southwark Playhouse – full cast details
Full casting details have been released for the new production of Broadway musical Side Show which will receive its UK premiere in October at the Southwark Playhouse. Haydn Oakley, Jay Marsh, Dominic Hodson, Christopher Howell, Lala Barlow, Oliver Marshall, David Muscat, Nuwan Hugh Perera, Agnes Pure, Nuno Queimado, Kirstie Skivington and Genevieve Taylor will join […]
Side Show – Louise Dearman and Laura Pitt-Pulford cast
First casting details have been released for the Broadway musical Side Show which will receive its UK premiere in October at the Southwark Playhouse. Louise Dearman, the first actress to star as both Glinda and Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked, has been cast as Daisy Hilton, and Laura Pitt-Pulford, an Olivier Award nominee this year […]
Side Show receives UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse
Broadway musical Side Show is to receive its UK premiere in October at the Southwark Playhouse. The new production of the show which was nominated for four Tony Awards when it first opened in New York in 1997, will run from 21 October until 3 December. Inspired by the true story of the 1920s vaudeville stars, […]
January takes toll on Broadway musicals
With its diminished tourists and wintry weather, January can be one of the cruellest months on Broadway, and 2015 will be no exception. The start of the new year will see no less than a half a dozen big-time musicals shutting down, with the most shocking – if not totally surprising – the quick fade of the […]
Side Show – St. James Theatre, New York
Side Show continues at the St. James Theatre, New York. The revival of Side Show, the enigmatic musical from 1997 that won rave notices but couldn’t sell tickets, has opened on Broadway heralded by a new avalanche of critical acclaim. This new production, described as reinvented and reimagined, tested the waters with runs in San […]
Broadway and Off-Broadway season – we preview what’s ahead
Ron Cohen writes: It’s almost autumn in New York but the thrill of first-nighting (as Vernon Duke expressed it in his classic song) won’t be felt on Broadway – at least as far as musicals are concerned – until mid-October when the first one of the fall opens, a revival of the enduring 1944 landmark On the Town. […]
