The Boy Friend continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 7 March 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ One thing that’s noticeable about musicals is that the older they are, the thinner their plots tend to be. That’s especially true of The Boy Friend, written by Sandy Wilson in the […]
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Casting for Menier Chocolate Factory’s The Boy Friend includes Amara Okereke, Janie Dee, Adrian Edmondson and Issy van Randwyck
Rising star Amara Okereke will follow in the footsteps of Julie Andrews and Twiggy to play the effervescent Polly in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s much-anticipated version of Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend. Okereke, who graduated from the Arts Educational School just last year and went on to win The Stage Debut Award for Best Actress […]
Menier Chocolate Factory to revive The Boy Friend
The Menier Chocolate Factory will follow its current hit productions of The Bridges of Madison County and Fiddler on the Roof with the first major revival of Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend in over a decade. With previews from 22 November 2019 ahead of an opening night on 3 December, the production is due to […]
Writer, composer and lyricist Sandy Wilson – we pay tribute
Writer-composer-lyricist SANDY WILSON died last month at the age of 90. Michael Darvell pays tribute to an extraordinary man of the British theatre and the one show of his that has been perennially popular for more than 60 years. The fact that Sandy Wilson, who has died aged 90, had his greatest hit, The Boy Friend, in the […]
