Monday 8th July 2019 at the Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️ Thriller Live commendably tries a different tack when it comes to celebrating its source material. Thanks to creator and executive director Adrian Grant, this is no jukebox musical with loose narrative thrown in. Nor is it a jukebox musical with a whackily entertaining plot... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 26th June 2019 at The Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Director Nikolai Foster brings a ‘new’ Grease to audiences with this production. That is, he’s returning the story to its roots, pre-Hollywood and pre-shiny-Hollywood-friendly edits. So we’re back to the original, slightly grittier source with Book, music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 5th June 2019 at the Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The hit film hits the stage with Little Miss Sunshine: A Road Musical currently touring U.K. theatres in a production which jovially joins the adaptation craze with mixed results. Little Miss Sunshine is of course based on the runaway hit 2006 movie (written by... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 4th June 2019 at The Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Well, isn’t Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat something? For generations it’s been hailed a delight and a classic with entire families raised on its catchy tunes and sense of fun. As someone experiencing it for the first time at the ripe... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 29th May 2019 at the Charing Cross Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Amour is a rather odd but charming tale told in the style of a light and breezy romantic musical with dark clouds looming beautifully above. The story itself isn’t particularly gripping but what the plot lacks in substance the production makes up for with great... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 29th April 2019 at the Adelphi Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Based on Adrienne Shelly’s film with Book by Jessie Nelson and much publicised music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, Waitress the musical comedy has some heavyweight backing. It’s a thoroughly modern affair bringing the harsher realities of life to the musical stage with pathos and... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 23rd April 2019 at the Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rock of Ages. What a half marvellous, half bamboozling mess of a rock devil-may-care extravaganza! By the end of the first act I was mulling over the probability of a ‘this show does not know what the hell it is’ verdict. It seems to... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 16th April 2019 at the Crazy Coqs (Live at Zédel). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Musical theatre fans, gather round! Actually, music fans in general, get over here. If you’ve ever physically or facially reacted to a specific note, rewound a song to hear a riff again, or actively forced friends to listen to a particular part of... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 16th April 2019 at the Playhouse Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From Tradition to If I Were a Rich Man to Matchmaker, Matchmaker, most will know catches of a ditty or two of Jerry Bock’s music and Sheldon Harnick’s lyrics from this show. After a knock out, sell out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, this... Continue Reading →
