After attending a matinee of The Boy Friend at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Musical Theatre Review’s Barrie Jerram chatted to the ever-busy JANIE DEE who starred as Madame Dubonnet in the superlative production [NB This interview was conducted several weeks before the coronavirus pandemic worsened]. Janie spoke at great length and bubbled over with enthusiasm […]
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Chicago the Musical – Phoenix Theatre
Chicago the Musical continues at the Phoenix Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The critics are giving this revival of Chicago a rough ride, some only giving it two stars, but don’t be put off – it’s still a very entertaining night out. How could it be otherwise? Bob Fosse’s […]
Bright Star – Cort Theatre, New York
Bright Star continues at the Cort Theatre, New York. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Another week, another bluegrass musical comes to New York theatre. The third and latest arrival in this minor epidemic is Bright Star, an astoundingly uneven stew which has opened on Broadway carrying the imprimatur of one of the […]
Chicago national tour – full casting revealed
Full casting has been announced for the international award-winning musical Chicago, which opens a national tour at the New Theatre Oxford on Friday 12 February 2016. Joining the previously announced John Partridge as Billy Flynn, Hayley Tamaddon as Roxie Hart and Sam Bailey as Mama Morton will be Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Neil Ditt as Amos Hart and A.D. Richardson as Mary Sunshine. The rest of the company includes: Daniele […]
Zorba! – New York City Center
Zorba!, an Encores! production, at New York City Center. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Encores!, the series of fully staged concert revivals of musicals from the past, is winding up its 2015 season with a well-crafted mounting of Zorba!, a Kander and Ebb work that premiered on Broadway in 1968. The production makes a case for the […]
