ANN REINKING, who has died aged 71, will be remembered not only for being an exceptional actress, dancer and choreographer but also as a protégée of the director-choreographer Bob Fosse, responsible for furthering his work following his death, and keeping his name and his talent before the public eye. Michael Darvell recalls the life and […]
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Bonnie Langford: Fifty Years On Stage – live-streamed from Crazy Coqs
Bonnie Langford: Fifty Years On Stage – live-streamed from Crazy Coqs, London (repeated at 6.30pm and 8.30pm on 17 December 2020). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ From the almost unbearably cute six-year-old who won TV talent show Opportunity Knocks to her multiple stage successes and TV soap fame, there hasn’t been much in […]
Nominees for UK Theatre Awards 2019
Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome’s The Color Purple, Sheffield Theatres’ Standing At The Sky’s Edge and the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester’s West Side Story will battle it out for the title of Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards next month. The three hit shows were among the list of nominees for the 2019 awards […]
Sweet Charity – Pimlico Opera – HMP Bronzefield
Sweet Charity by Pimlico Opera and the inmates of HMP Bronzefield at Ashford, Surrey. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Put an Olivier-nominated actress alongside inmates of HMP Bronzefield, stir in a 12-piece orchestra, a stage in a prison and the expertise of Pimlico Opera and what you got was a terrific Sweet Charity. […]
Sweet Charity – Nottingham Playhouse
Sweet Charity at the Nottingham Playhouse. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ Sweet Charity is back in vogue, if it was ever out. The Watermill, Newbury’s wildly popular production has just closed. Over the pond, Marriott Theater in Illinois is mounting an eight-week run through September and October. Long Island’s BroadHollow Theatre will stage it throughout January […]
There will always be a place to enjoy his comic genius’: Remembering Neil Simon
NEIL SIMON, the most prolific comedy writer in the world who died on 26 August 2018 at the age of 91, had a very long career as a writer for television, the theatre and the cinema. There was just nobody else to match him, not even Shakespeare! Michael Darvell looks back at the life of a total comic […]
Sweet Charity – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor
Sweet Charity continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 15 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ First performed in 1966, Bob Fosse’s microcosmic study of naivety in the search for love retains its nostalgic qualities 50 years later in this production at the Watermill. Why, in the opening lines, we are told that […]
Rebecca Trehearn to play title role Sweet Charity at Nottingham Playhouse
Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Trehearn will take on the title role in the Nottingham Playhouse’s production of Broadway hit Sweet Charity. The Show Boat star will take on the central role of Charity Hope Valentine, the unlucky in love taxi dancer, in the major new production which will play the Nottingham venue from 31 August until […]
Nominations for UK Theatre Awards 2017 announced
Sheffield Theatres’ Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Chichester Festival Theatre’s Caroline, Or Change and the Royal Exchange Theatre’s Sweet Charity will battle it out for the title of Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards next month. The three hit shows were among the list of nominees for the 2017 awards which will be presented […]
Interview – director Derek Bond brings Sweet Charity to the Royal Exchange Manchester
For its Christmas show the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester is staging the Cy Coleman-Dorothy Fields musical Sweet Charity, with a book by Neil Simon based on the Fellini film, Nights of Cabiria. DEREK BOND has returned to the venue to direct the show. Musical Theatre Review’s Chris Bartlett wrote in his review: “And for a joyous 160 […]
Sweet Charity – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Sweet Charity continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester until 28 January 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A whirling dervish of swinging sixties joie de vivre with a perfect storm of creative talent behind it, it’s no wonder that Sweet Charity still holds up so well 50 years after it first hot-footed […]
Sweet Charity – Derek Bond to direct Manchester Royal Exchange production
Derek Bond will return to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre this Christmas to direct a major new production of Broadway hit Sweet Charity. Bond, who was previously at the helm of the theatre’s sell-out 2014 seasonal production of Little Shop of Horrors, will be joined by award-winning choreographer Aletta Collins for the show which will run […]
Performance Preparation Academy – Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity was performed Performance Preparation Academy final-year graduates at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Occasionally, very occasionally, you see somebody with ‘star quality’ stamped all over them and watching Natalie Thorn absolutely nail Sweet Charity was pretty special by any standard. This final show from the PPA’s […]
Sweet Charity – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Sweet Charity continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 26 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There is a bitter sweet quality in a good production of Sweet Charity, and Peter Rowe’s staging brings out all the comic tragedy of Neil Simon’s book. We see the seedy side of 1960s New York through the eyes of […]
Sweet Charity – National Youth Music Theatre – Curve Leicester
Sweet Charity was presented by the National Youth Music Theatre at Curve, Leicester. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ In a month other than August, this outstanding production by the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) could have graced the main stage at Curve, where it wouldn’t have been out of place against any of the high-profile musicals […]
Sweet Charity – Cadogan Hall
Sweet Charity was performed at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As this year’s summer musical, the Cadogan Hall treated us to a concert version of Sweet Charity, just five years after the last London revival of this classic show transferred from the Menier Chocolate Factory to the Haymarket. Adapted by […]
Katie Birtill cast as lead in Sweet Charity at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich is producing a new actor-musician production of the musical Sweet Charity which runs from Thursday 3 to Saturday 26 September, directed by artistic director Peter Rowe. Katie Birtill, who will be playing the lead role of Charity Valentine, was initially studying medicine at Bristol University before she decided to take the plunge and go into […]
Sweet Charity concert – Denise Van Outen and Michael Xavier lead cast
London’s Cadogan Hall presents the concert version of Sweet Charity with musical theatre performers Denise Van Outen, Michael Xavier, Kimberley Walsh and Kerry Ellis (Wednesday 19 August to Saturday 22 August 2015). The soloists are joined by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Arts Ed Chorale, under musical director Richard Balcombe. The creative team is completed by stage director Paul Foster and choreographer Matt Flint. Sweet Charity, with music by Cy Coleman […]
Choreographer Stephen Mear reveals all about Gypsy at Chichester
Tonight is an important date in Olivier Award-winning choreographer STEPHEN MEAR’s diary – it’s the hotly anticipated official opening of Gypsy at the Chichester Festival Theatre, one of a line-up of shows he has collaborated on at the venue where he is an associate. In true Billy Elliot style, Mear began dancing at the age […]
