The Sword and the Dope at Waterloo East Theatre The Sword and the Dope is an original musical which has been described as a cross between Monty Python (think Spamalot), Drop Dead Donkey and Blackadder with some panto elements dropped in for good measure. It takes us back to the time of King Arthur and the Knights of the round
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Pete n Keely Pete n Keely is making its European Premier at the Tristan Bates Theatre at the moment and I attended press night on the 4th May. This show is set in 1968 and tells of America’s Sweethearts, Pete Bartel and Keely Stevens. They are performing live on TV for a reunion show. The issue is that they are now
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Summer Nights In Space Summer Nights In Space is a new musical by Henry Carpenter which opened last night (15th February) at the Vaults Festival. In its blurb it describes itself as a ‘Musical comedy about the search for love across the universe.’ It tells the story of John Spartan, our space obsessed astronaut, who finds out that space is not
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From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads at Waterloo East Theatre From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads is a play written and directed by Adrian Berry. It tells of Martin, an 18 year old who is struggling with mental health difficulties. His mother is an alcoholic and his father left when he was 2 but his obsession with Bowie is the one
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Closer Than Ever On the 26th April 2016 I attended The Pheasantry to see Closer Than Ever. As a huge musical theatre fan I was thrilled to be given an opportunity to see a piece I was not familiar with. Closer Than Ever is a song cycle by Maltby & Shire which focuses on love, relationships and the passing of
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Well where to start with my review for Something Something Lazarus…. a bizarre show of two halves. The first half is founded in realism, the cast of the show are also a cast rehearsing for an unnamed show. The group are made up of Della, the musician of the group, Vee the performer with a fondness for gin who thinks she
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Reel Life by Folio Theatre My dealings with Folio Theatre Company began last year when I attended the launch night for Wimbledon’s studio theatre’s festival Illuminate. Whilst at the launch night I saw a promotion video for a play called Unearthed that spiked my interest. I therefore went along to watch Unearthed and was very impressed, so much so that
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The Waiting Room I was invited to see the Waiting Room by What’s It All About Productions on Wednesday 13th October 2015 at the Courtyard. The premise of this show is that 3 strangers have been sent a letter to come to a meeting. All they know is that the senders of this letter knows their name and date of
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Parade I attended Parade at London Theatre Workshop on Wednesday 2nd September. I should probably begin with a disclaimer – This is a musical I am extremely familiar with and love. This is the 5th production I have seen of this show. Previous productions I have seen of this show range from the original London production at the Domnar to
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Love Birds sees my first guest reviewer- Emily. Whilst I was gutted to be unable to attend Love Birds I’m thrilled that Emily could make the outing for Musicaltheatremusings. She runs her own blog at ‘thatemily’ so please do drop her own blog a visit or check her out on Twitter at @cpfcrox for more of her reviews. This is
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