Further casting has been announced for the highly anticipated UK premiere of Little Dancer – A New Musical later this month.
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Susan Stroman to direct and choreograph UK premiere of Little Dancer – A New Musical
Double Olivier and five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman will direct and choreograph the highly anticipated UK premiere of Little Dancer – A New Musical this summer.
Once on This Island – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Once on This Island continues at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 10 June 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Anastasia – Circus Theater Scheveningen, The Netherlands
Anastasia continues at the Circus Theater Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Dutch premiere of Anastasia at the Circus Theater Scheveningen had the most glamorous opening night I’ve attended for a long time. In the presence of the show’s composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens, the event was of epic […]
Once On This Island – Circle in the Square Theatre, New York
Once On This Island continues at Circle in the Square Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With its time shifts, strange native names and interacting mix of gods, hard-working native folks and mixed-blood aristocrats, the rather simple poor-native-girl-meets-rich-aristocratic-boy story of Once On This Island can seem a bit overburdened. […]
Lucky Stiff – Union Theatre
Lucky Stiff continues at the Union Theatre, London until 21 October. Star rating: three stars ★★★✩ ✩ If there’s one adjective which, when applied to musical theatre, fills one with a sense of trepidation, it’s “zany”. But that’s the only way to describe the first professionally produced collaboration between book writer and lyricist Lynn Ahrens […]
Union Theatre to revive musical farce Lucky Stiff
Lucky Stiff, the first musical from the Tony Award-winning team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty is to be revived at London’s Union Theatre later this month. The production, which will be directed by Paul Callen, will star Tom Elliot Reade, Natasha Hoeberigs, Natalie Moore-Williams, Tom Keeling, Jonathan Leinmuller, Ian Mccurrach and Lydia Marcazzo. Elizabeth […]
Interview – composer Stephen Flaherty on bringing Anastasia to Broadway – and other adventures
American composer STEPHEN FLAHERTY’s latest Broadway musical, written in collaboration with Lynn Ahrens and Terrence McNally (the same team that gave us Ragtime) is the musical retelling of Anastasia. The Tony-nominated show follows the oft-told Anastasia story about the woman who may have been – but probably wasn’t – the surviving daughter of the massacred […]
Anastasia – Broadhurst Theatre, New York
Anastasia continues at the Broadhurst Theatre, New York. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Daily headlines in US political news continue to ponder the Russian interference in last fall’s presidential election, but what about Russian influence over Broadway? Anastasia, the lavishly engaging new musical that has just opened on Broadway, is the […]
Ramin Karimloo to join Anastasia Broadway cast
Tony-nominated star Ramin Karimloo (Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera) is heading back to Broadway next year to take on a villainous role in the much-anticipated Anastasia. The award-winning Iranian-Canadian actor and singer, who is about to open in Murder Ballad at London’s Arts Theatre, is the latest addition to the cast of the big […]
Movie musical review – Lucky Stiff
Lucky Stiff, a musical farce by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Once on This Island, Ragtime), has been around since 1988 when it won the Richard Rodgers Award for an Off-Broadway production by the Playwrights Horizons theatre company. Since then, it has had moderate success over here in the UK but is a well-loved staple […]
Lucky Stiff – Drayton Arms Theatre
Lucky Stiff continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 14 May. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ The less said about this musical farce, this desperately unfunny debut effort by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty long before they hit the big-time with Ragtime and Seussical, the better. A game, energetic cast of ten […]
Dessa Rose – Trafalgar Studios
Dessa Rose continues at the Trafalgar Studios, London until 30 August. The award-winning musical theatre team of Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music) have a prolific catalogue of successful shows that range from the simple charm of Seussical to the epic Ragtime. Their latest offering, based on a novel by Sherley Anne Williams and […]
Aherns and Flaherty’s Dessa Rose – Erivo and Janson cast
Cynthia Erivo (I Can’t Sing!, The Color Purple) returns to the West End in the title role of the European premiere of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Dessa Rose when it opens at London’s Trafalgar Studios from 29 July-30 August (press night is 31 July). Cassidy Janson (Avenue Q, Wicked, Candide) will play the role of Ruth. […]
Aherns and Flaherty’s Dessa Rose has European premiere at Trafalgar Studios
The European premiere of the musical drama Dessa Rose comes to London’s Trafalgar Studios from 29 July-30 August (press night is 31 July). Dessa Rose is based on the book by Sherley Anne Williams with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Once On This Island, Seussical and Rocky the Musical). This powerful story, […]
