International opera singer and actress Rebecca Caine is currently on tour across the UK with her show Dividing Day, ‘a journey of self-discovery with help from writers including Bernstein, Bucchino, Guettel, La Chiusa, Sondheim, Weill and Yeston’. accompanied by Nathan Martin on the piano.
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Royal Academy of Music – The Light in the Piazza
The Light in the Piazza at the Royal Academy of Music’s Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Between Adam Guettel’s sumptuous, demanding score, Craig Lucas’ Italian language-heavy book, and a tradition of extravagantly beautiful scenic design, The Light in the Piazza is not an obvious choice for a […]
The Light in the Piazza – Royal Festival Hall
The Light in the Piazza continues at the Royal Festival Hall, London until 5 July 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The Light in the Piazza is based on a novel by the American author Elizabeth Spencer who travelled to Italy on a scholarship and stayed there so long that she […]
Renée Fleming and Dove Cameron head cast of London premiere of The Light in the Piazza
Opera superstar Renée Fleming and Disney TV star Dove Cameron will make their London theatre debuts next summer in a special production of Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza. The first production from Scenario Two, the new company founded by John Berry and Anthony Lilley, The Light in the Piazza will make its London […]
Love is Good – Christine Andreas and Martin Silvestri – The Pheasantry
Love is Good: Christine Andreas and Martin Silvestri continues at The Pheasantry, London, until 21 February. Star rating: 5 stars ***** It’s almost 40 years since Christine Andreas played Eliza Doolittle in the 1976 revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway but the beauty of voice and face remains totally intact and this Love is Good collaboration with her composer-arranger-pianist […]
Maria Friedman and Friends – Ambassadors Theatre
Maria Friedman and Friends at the Ambassadors Theatre, London (20 and 21 May). It was quite a blow for the original concept of ‘Maria Friedman & Adam Guettel in Concert and Conversation’ when Guettel was compelled to pull out at short notice to be at the bedside of his ailing mother (and fellow composer) Mary […]
Composer Adam Guettel – why he is drawn to cabaret
Composer, lyricist, performer, teacher and conservationist, Adam Guettel, a patron of the 2014 London Festival of Cabaret, will appear in concert and conversation with Maria Friedman at the Ambassadors Theatre on 20 and 21 May. Guettel’s musical The Light In The Piazza premiered on Broadway in 2005 and received six Tony Awards. Guettel also wrote […]
Christine Andreas – The Pheasantry
Christine Andreas performed at The Pheasantry, London. London is being spoilt for cabaret divas at the moment with Christine Andreas’ residency at The Pheasantry being followed by the incomparable Ann Hampton Callaway at the Crazy Coqs this week. A “dyed-in-the-wool Broadway baby”, Andreas has a list of musical theatre credits anyone would be proud of, […]
