The Odyssey continues at the Unicorn Theatre, London until 21 April 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s an enjoyable take for a modern young audience on a timeless old story.
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Musicals Mash Up: 10-16 October 2022
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports.
Cast for Julian Clary’s festive family show The Bolds
Casting has been unveiled for the world premiere of Julian Clary’s stage version of his best-selling children’s book The Bolds this Christmas. Due to arrive on stage at London’s Unicorn Theatre next month, the production which will be directed by Lee Lyford will star David Ahmad as Fred Bold with Amanda Gordon as Amelia Bold, […]
Baddies the Musical – Unicorn Theatre
Baddies the Musical continues at the Unicorn Theatre, London until 31 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ From the moment bearded Nigel Barrett’s night-gowned Wolf and Kathy Rose O’Brien’s saccharine Red Riding Hood are interrupted at the crucial ‘big teeth’ moment by two 21st century London cops preventing an assault, you know you’re […]
The Wicker Husband – the inside story on bringing a new musical to life
The Wicker Husband is a musical theatre work-in-progress being brought to life by actor and book-writer Rhys Jennings and composer-lyricist Darren Clark. This nascent show takes its inspiration from a short story of the same name – a folksy fable in the style of a fairy tale – self-published online by Gloucester writer Ursula Wills-Jones. […]
Baddies: The Musical – Unicorn Theatre
Baddies: The Musical continues at the Unicorn Theatre, London until 24 December. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Baddies: The Musical is another re-telling of well-known fairy tales in a world where all the different stories take place in the same world. The Big Bad Wolf (Dean Nolan) finds himself locked up with some […]
Baddies: The Musical heads to the Unicorn Theatre in November
The villainous characters from some of our best-loved fairytales take centre stage in London’s Unicorn Theatre’s production of the comic fantasy Baddies: The Musical this November. The new comic musical from Nancy Harris and Mark Teitler re-imagines the Big Bad Wolf, Rumpelstiltskin, the Ugly Sisters and Captain Hook, as the heroes of a world in […]
