Rather than write a review of the Hamilton movie (although if I had it would have been a solid 5 stars) I’ve decided to put together a post on all of the interesting facts, beautiful moments and more about the show and the movie. I love peeling back layers within shows so do let me know in the comments about
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With so many of us desperate to get our theatre fix it seems as if the way we ae going to be able to do this is via drive-in theatre. These are the current drive in offerings and I will update these if any more get added to the list: Six This is the big one! The Queens will be
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I have found myself wanting to speak up and speak out for the black lives matter movement but also aware that I have a platform and a readership that I can hopefully use to do so. I have therefore spent time trying to educate myself on how I can use my platform to raise awareness. I appreciate that this is
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I always try and avoid reading reviews prior to seeing a show I have already booked for. This helps me go in with an open mind but there seemed to be no way of escaping people’s thoughts of the The Prince of Egypt. However I left the theatre wondering if we had watched the same show!! The Prince of Egypt
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Shrek is a musical I am incredibly fond of and (full disclosure) the show I am currently directing for Bromley Players. The musical is based on the 2001 film and is full of heart and a great moral message. Add to that some catchy songs and there is the foundations of a great musical there. The show spends a lot
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Be More Chill through one lens could be described as your typical transformation show: geek loves girl and does what he can to get popular and win the girl until he discovers his original self was far more appealing. However you then add in a squip, a supercomputer from Japan that takes over your brain in order to make you
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Les Miserables is one of these shows that seems to have been around forever, and whilst I have a vague recollection of seeing it many moons ago I had been telling myself for many years that I needed to take a return trip to the barricades. The new cast and updated version gave me the push I needed and I
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There has been a huge amount of hype for Dear Evan Hansen and I was excited to finally find out if it was worth all the fuss. Dear Evan Hansen is a Broadway transfer which focuses on 17 year old Evan. Evan is struggling to fit in and make friends at school however thanks to a letter he writes to
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Curtains is billed as a musical whodunnit and is by Kander and Ebb, the writers of Cabaret and Chicago. To me this sounded like a match made in musical theatre heaven so I could’t wait to see this tour. The show opens with a murder of a theatre companies leading lady on opening night of ‘Robbin’ Hood of The Old
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So much more than a jukebox musical, Beautiful tells the story of prolific singer-songwriter Carole King, setting her early life and career against a soundtrack of classic pop songs from the 50s through to the early 70s – all written by King and Gerry Goffin and their contemporaries, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. A reluctant star, King is portrayed as
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