As each year draws to a close, Musical Theatre Review usually pulls together a round-up of all the productions covered that have received four and five star reviews. After such an extraordinary year, during which any production staged has been a triumph over adversity, such an approach seemed inappropriate. Instead, I asked a small group […]
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Funny Girl – Theatre Marigny, Paris
Funny Girl at Theatre Marigny, Paris. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Watching pocket rocket Christina Bianco belt out ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade’ to bring the curtain down in the final week of Funny Girl’s triumphant four-month stay in Paris was to see musical theatre at its finest. For a wet Wednesday when […]
INTERVIEW: Christina Bianco and Ashley Day star in Funny Girl at Theatre Marigny in Paris
American actress-singer impressionist CHRISTINA BIANCO is currently playing the title role of 1920s vaudeville star Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Theatre Marigny in Paris opposite British triple threat performer ASHLEY DAY as Nick Arnstein. The show (in English with French surtitles) finishes on 7 March 2020. Below, Musical Theatre Review’s Patrick Honoré chats […]
Musical theatre is bustin’ out all over in Paris
Musical theatre is bustin’ out all over in Paris these autumn days and American actress-impersonator Christina Bianco opens tonight (Thursday) in Funny Girl at the gloriously refurbished Marigny just off the Champs Elysees. Bianco plays old-time Broadway comedienne Fanny Brice in the only part Barbra Streisand ever performed on the West End stage back in […]
Christina Bianco to play Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Theatre Marigny
American actress-singer impressionist Christina Bianco is to play the title role of 1920s vaudeville star Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Theatre Marigny, just off the famed Champs Elysees in Paris. Official opening night is 7 November 2019 with the show (in English with French surtitles) finishing next 5 January 2020. Funny Girl made […]
Ria Jones heads up the Guys and Dolls cast at Paris’ Theatre Marigny
Paris will be seeing Guys and Dolls for the first time when Frank Loesser’s iconic 1950 musical lands in the Theatre Marigny, just off the Champs-Elysees, for a four-and-a-half-month run from 13 March to 27 July. Ria Jones, so brilliant in Sunset Boulevard, heads the cast which also features Clare Halse, Christopher Howell and Matthew […]
Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little will play Paris’ Theatre Marigny
Deprived as we are of any English-language musicals in Paris while the Theatre du Châtelet is closed for refurbishment, there is still some Stephen Sondheim to be seen in 2019 at the Theatre Marigny just off the Champs-Elysees. Running from 30 January to 24 February is Marry Me a Little, that revue of out-takes from […]
