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.
Crazy For You – Gillian Lynne Theatre
Crazy For You continues at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, London until 20 January 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Crazy For You West End transfer – full cast
Full casting has been confirmed for the West End transfer of the Chichester Festival Theatre acclaimed new production of the classic George and Ira Gershwin musical comedy Crazy For You.
London transfer for Chichester Festival Theatre’s Crazy For You
Susan Stroman’s acclaimed new production of the classic George and Ira Gershwin musical comedy Crazy For You will follow its sold-out Chichester Festival Theatre summer season by playing a strictly limited six-week run in the West End.
Crazy For You – Chichester Festival Theatre
Crazy For You continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 4 September 2022. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ It’s rare for a show to get a standing ovation at the interval but a full house on press night quickly fell in love with this heatwave-hot revival of the wonderfully silly Crazy For You, sensationally directed and […]
Full company for Chichester’s Crazy For You
Carly Anderson will star opposite Charlie Stemp in Susan Stroman’s new production of the classic George and Ira Gershwin musical comedy Crazy For You at Chichester Festival Theatre this summer. As previously announced, Stemp (Mary Poppins, Prince Edward Theatre) will return to Chichester for the first time since his career-launching performance in the hit revival […]
Three musicals feature in Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2022 season – Susan Stroman makes her debut at the venue
Chichester Festival Theatre’s 60th anniversary season will feature three musicals: Susan Stroman makes her Chichester debut directing and choreographing the Gershwins’ musical comedy Crazy For You, Charlie Stemp returns to Chichester to lead the cast. Local Hero, book by David Greig and music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler, based on the Bill Forsyth film, directed […]
Bathtubs Over Broadway – Netflix
Bathtubs Over Broadway – Netflix. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s about 526,000 minutes since we last saw a live show on Broadway or in the West End but these lockdowns have given musical theatre aficionados plenty of time to trawl through the movie outlets we now have on TV in search […]
Young Frankenstein – Garrick Theatre
Young Frankenstein continues at the Garrick Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Mel Brooks’ comedy musical monster lumbers into London 10 years after it opened on Broadway and, although leaner than before, only just about manages to squeeze itself on to the intimate Garrick stage. It certainly hasn’t matured over […]
Prince of Broadway – Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York
Prince of Broadway continues at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York until 22 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Imagine leafing through a richly embellished scrapbook, in which just about every entry or memento comes magically – and vibrantly – to life. That’s the happy delirium that may well overtake […]
Young Frankenstein to be brought to life in the West End
The UK premiere of Mel Brooks’ musical Young Frankenstein will arrive at London’s Garrick Theatre in October. Based on the much-loved hit 1974 hit film which was written by Brooks and his regular collaborator the legendary Gene Wilder, the musical will arrive in the West End nearly 10 years after its Broadway debut. The London […]
Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein to open in Newcastle in August 2017 before West End run
Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, which will open for a pre West End season at the Newcastle Theatre Royal (26 August to 9 September 2017), is slated for a West End opening autumn 2017. Based on the Oscar-nominated hit 1974 film and co-written with Thomas Meehan, Brooks will once again collaborate with Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman for this all-singing all-dancing […]
Bullets Over Broadway – North American tour
Bullets Over Broadway was performed at the Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania before continuing on its North American tour. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The long overdue musical version of Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway was one of the most eagerly awaited musicals of 2014. Unfortunately, partly due to bad […]
Louie Spence joins cast of The Producers UK tour
Dancer, choreographer and television personality Louie Spence will join comedian Jason Manford in the brand new UK tour of The Producers which opens at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley in March 2015. Based on Mel Brooks’ Academy Award-winning movie, The Producers won a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and three Olivier Awards. Spence will play Carmen Ghia, Roger De Bris’ flamboyant assistant, […]
The Scottsboro Boys – Garrick Theatre
The Scottsboro Boys continues at the Garrick Theatre until 21 February 2015. Any play dealing with America’s troubled racial history can struggle to feel like it has a place on a British stage at times. There isn’t quite the same sense of shared history, so what can feel raw and visceral to US audiences risks leaving their […]
The Scottsboro Boys – casting revealed for West End transfer
Initial casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Kander and Ebb’s award-winning and final musical The Scottsboro Boys. Brandon Victor Dixon, who originated the role of Haywood Patterson in the first US production of The Scottsboro Boys and is currently starring as Berry Gordy in Motown the Musical on Broadway, will make his West End debut this […]
The Scottsboro Boys has West End transfer to the Garrick
The Scottsboro Boys, Kander & Ebb’s award-winning and final musical, is to transfer to London’s West End for a strictly limited season following its highly acclaimed season at the Young Vic. The recipient of the prestigious Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical, the production will preview at the Garrick Theatre from 4 October, ahead of a […]
Bullets Over Broadway – St James Theatre, New York
Bullets Over Broadway continues at the St James Theatre, New York, in an open-ended run. Bullets Over Broadway, based on Woody Allen’s 1994 gem of a movie about the perils of putting on a play with gangster financing, is almost the kind of musical that set a certain Broadway standard back, say, some 60 years […]
The Scottsboro Boys is Best Musical at Critics’ Circle Awards
The Young Vic’s production of The Scottsboro Boys has been named as best musical at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2013. Young Vic artistic director David Lan and producer Catherine Schreiber received the Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical from reviewer Heather Neill at the ceremony, held at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The trophy […]
