Legally Blonde is a show I know like the back of my hand having seen 5 different versions of it prior to Festoon’s production and having directed an amateur production of it myself. Add onto this the fact that I am blonde and a lawyer it is a show that is very close to my heart. With shows that mean
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In My Fair Lady, a classic musical, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into a lady, who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle who agrees to speech lessons to improve
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Sunshine on Leith is a musical which focus on home, family and what these mean, all set to the music of the Proclaimers. We meet Dave and Ally who have returned home to Leith, after serving in the army. Ally is returning home to his girlfriend Liz and Dave to his family but as the show goes on some relationships
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame tells of Quasimodo, orphaned and left in his uncle Frollo’s care. Quasimodo spends his life living in the bell tower at Notre Dame, that is until one day he decides to go into town for the Feast of Fools but in doing so he meets Esmerelda and it changes both of their lives. The show
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The Effect is a play that premiered in 2012 and gained favourable reviews across the board but since then it is a play that has remained under the radar. Sedos however have picked up on this gem of a show and present it to a new audience, keen to discover this piece. The Effect tells of 2 individuals, Connie and
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Calendar Girls – the musical is an adaption, by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth, of a true story previously told in both the form of a film and a play about a group of ladies in the Women’s Institute. This unlikely group decided to raise money for a new sofa for the local hospital in memory of one of their
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When the mention of the novel or film by the name of Carrie the first thought is blood, not musical theatre so you may be surprised to learn that there is indeed musical based on the Stephen King novel. It tells the story of outcast Carrie who is bullied at school for being different, largely due to her protective upbringing.
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Evita, by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, tells the story of Eva Duarte, born illegitimately in a small town but determined to get out of there and make it to the bright lights of Buenos Aires. Once she makes it there she advances her career as an actress and meets Colonel Juan Peron and together they climb their way
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American Idiot is a musical which stems from the Greenday album of the same name, but it is far from a jukebox musical. The rock opera concept album set out to tell a story. We meet Johnny, Tunny and Will in a post 9/11 USA, all disillusioned with their future. Johnny and Tunny set off for the big city to
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Cats can be a marmite show and the 2019 movie did little to help these polarised opinions. Cats, based on the book of poems by TS Eliot, and for those that love it say that it shows a group of cats who gather once a year at the jellicle ball to see who can cross over into another life. Love
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