EMMANUEL KOJO was thrust into the spotlight, fresh from drama school, less that two years ago, in The Scottsboro Boys, and has been working almost continuously since. He joined Musical Theatre Review’s Aura Simon, breathless and exhilarated, from a matinee performance playing Joe in the Sheffield Crucible production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s timeless masterpiece Show Boat, now […]
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Audra McDonald in concert – Leicester Square Theatre
Audra McDonald performed in concert at the Leicester Square Theatre, London Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s been over a decade since American stage and screen star Audra McDonald has performed in London (in 2002 she became only the second American invited to be guest soloist at the Last Night of the […]
CD Reviews – A Spoonful of Sherman, Lost West End, Gypsy, The Scottsboro Boys, The King and I
Nick Wakeham casts an eye over some of the latest CD releases. Musical Theatre Review’s CD reviews page is presented in association with DRESS CIRCLE, the longest-running Musical Theatre specialist shop in the world. A SPOONFUL OF SHERMAN – Original London Cast Recording (SimG Records – SimGR-CD027) Celebrating 90 years and three generations of the famous Sherman […]
Brent Barrett – Life Is, The Songs of Kander and Ebb – Crazy Coqs
Brent Barrett performs his show Life Is – The Songs of Kander and Ebb at the Crazy Coqs, London until 24 January. Broadway star Brent Barrett returns to this highly successful cabaret venue where he made his triumphant debut a year ago. This time he presents the London premiere of his new show that celebrates a 50-year […]
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 […]
Charlie and Merrily top Olivier Awards nominations
New musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along have topped the voting in the Olivier Awards 2014 nominations, as announced by previous winners Nigel Harman and Leigh Zimmerman in London today. Best New Musical nominees Once, The Book of Mormon and The Scottsboro Boys are hot on their heels with six nominations. The highly […]
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 […]
The Scottsboro Boys – Young Vic
The Scottsboro Boys continues at the Young Vic, London until 21 December. Once in a while an original cast album comes along that really excites, grabs the imagination and makes one long to see it staged. The Scottsboro Boys was such a one. After a long wait, it’s hats off to the Young Vic for […]
