The Band is a new musical which tells the story of 5 teenage girls with a love for a boy band. The band are never named but they just happen to sing all of Take That’s back catalogue. These 5 girls however grow up and apart but when Rachel wins a competition to see The Band in Prague the friends
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Violet has finally hit London. The show premiered off Broadway in 1997 and Sutton Foster starred in a one night concert on Broadway in 2014 which lead to a short run on Broadway. Violet has now hit the London stage. It tells of Violet, a disfigured girl who travels from Spruce Pine, North Carolina to Tulsa Oklahoma in order to
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Howard Goodall’s Girlfriends In Concert by LMTO Girlfriends is a musical by Howard Goodall that is rarely performed. Written in 1985 it tells of the women on the WAAF, the Women’s Auxiliary Airforce. It focuses on a group of 5 women including best friends Lou and Amy who both fall for the same pilot Guy. It is a show about
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The Distance You Have Come – A Song Cycle By Scott Alan at Cockpit Theatre I’ve been a fan of Scott Alan for a while having listened to many of his songs on repeat so when offered the chance to review his new song cycle, The Distance You Have Come, I jumped at it. The Distance You Have Come focuses
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Trump The Musical: It is the year 2020 and Trump is running for re-election, Nigel Farage is King of England, Kim Jong Un’s hand is still hovering about the big button and Putin is wondering where his pal Trump has gone. Welcome to the word of Trump The Musical! The plot is more than tenuous in Trump The Musical. Trump
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Brexit at Edinburgh Fringe Festival It is 2020 and the UK has emerged out of another general election and a new Tory PM, Adam Masters must unite his party’s warring factions. Brexit is still the biggest issue of the day and rather than decide how to deal with this he tries to appease both sides by appointing Simon Cavendish a
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Tenacious D: The Musical of Destiny. Tenacious D: The Musical of Destiny tells the story of JB and KG. When they meet they decide to form a band, Tenacious D and they go onto chase the magical pick of destiny. Along the way they meet a group of roadies with a strict tour manager as well as Tenacious D’s ultimate
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Buried: A New Musical Buried is a new musical which tells of serial killers, Rose and Harry meeting, think Bonnie and Clyde for the Iphone generation! Whilst they meet both trying to kill the other, they bond over their common interest and soon a relationship of sorts develops. The path of true love however never runs smooth and when there
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Bare Bare is a rock musical set in a private Catholic Boarding school. It follows two boys, Peter and Jason however Jason is the school’s golden boy and refuses to tell anyone of their relationship. A spanner gets thrown in the works when Ivy decides to go after Jason and sets a downward spiral in motion amongst them all. It
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The Monster in the Hall The Monster in the Hall by David Greig follows a day in the life of Duck Macatarsney as she cares for her dope-smoking biker father who suffers from multiple sclerosis. Duck is anxiously awaiting a visit from social services to check up on them and is terrified she will be taken into care. Worst of
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