I can be difficult to really win over when it comes to musical theatre but I need to set it out from the off that Cygnet Player’s production of Spring Awakening not only won me over but proved to be a real theatrical highlight for me. Spring Awakening is based on the 1981 German Play which tells of a group
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Soho Cinders is a musical I have wanted to see for a long time having fallen in love with the soundtrack some time ago. I was thrilled to hear that Sedos were putting on this show and I finally saw it on Wednesday night. Soho Cinders is set on Old Compton Street and is based on the classic tale of
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Funny Girl is the story made famous by Streisand. It tells the story of Fanny Brice, who starts out featured on Vauderville but makes her way up to the Follies. Her stardom however comes at a price and as her star continues to rise her relationship with her husband disintergrates. Playing the role of Fanny Brice was Elizabeth Burton. She
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is one of those musicals that I feel I really ought to have seen and thanks to Sedos I finally got the chance to do so. It is a musical which tells of J. Pierrepoint Finch who is following an instruction manual to climb the corporate ladder. Sedos have really hit the
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As a perennial fan of all things Sondheim, I was delighted to be asked to review this production of A Little Night Music- in fact I had already purchased tickets as it happens! Based on the Ingmar Bergman film of 1956 ‘Smiles of a Summer Night’, A Little Night Music is a tragic farce- ’whipped cream with knives’- and has the
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Kiss Me Kate is a musical based on Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew.’ It tells of a company putting on a production of the very same show. Fred Graham, the director and male lead, is Lilli Vanessi’s ex husband. Vanessi also happens to be the star of the show. When the sparks of romance begin to ignite again between them
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Urinetown by Sedos Urinetown is an bizarre musical by anyone’s standards but by the same stroke incredibly clever and funny in my opinion. It tales the story of a town that is suffering from a water shortage and as a result you have to pay to pee. Failure to comply with this payment results in being sent to Urinetown, the
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My Boy Jack by Folkestone and Hythe Operatic and Dramatic Society My Boy Jack is a straight play written by David Haig in 1997. The play follows the life of Rudyard Kipling (best known for The Jungle Book)and his family over the years surrounding World War 1. It also examines and effects of losing a loved child during the battle
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The Pajama Game by GEOIDS at The Bridewell Theatre The Pajama Game is a musical first performed in 1954 and tells the story of the factory workers in Sleep-Tite, a pajama factory. The workers are fighting for a pay rise of 7 1/2 cents but new couple Babe and Sid end up on opposite sides of the picket line. The
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Top Hat at the Orchard Theatre The musical Top Hat is based on the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film. It tells the story of Jerry Travers, a star on Broadway that comes to London to perform in a West End show. During his stay at a hotel his late night tap dancing disturbs the guest below him, Dale
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