As we all know theatres across the UK have been closed in order to combat the spread of Covid-19. However many of us clearly can’t go for a week without a theatre fix let alone several so I have pulled together lots of resources for theatre at home so we can continue to fuel our fan girl (or boy) obsession.
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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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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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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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It is fast becoming a Christmas Tradition to head to Sadler’s Wells for New Adventures’ seasonal ballet. This year was The Red Shoes. The Red Shoes tells of 2 men that are in love with Victoria Page, a dancer. One is Lermontov, the ballet impresario who spots Page’s talent. He commissions a ballet is commissioned by composer Julian Craster for
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The Boy In The Dress by the RSC sparkles as brightly as the sequinned dress. Read my 5 star review here.
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& Juliet is the newest jukebox musical to hit the West End and it does so in the form of Max Martin’s pop anthems. We meet Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway. Anne is determined to change how Juliet;s story is told so we meet Juliet at Romeo’s deathbed and rather than taking her own life she uses this to
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9 to 5 has been playing in the West End for 8 months and has recently embarked on a UK tour. I finally got the chance to see what all the fuss is about in the West End. The show’s themes are ones that centre around female empowerment and we meet 3 women who all work for Franklin Hart Jnr.
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It is the show that everyone is talking about…although not always for the right reasons! One thing people do seem to agree on however is the beauty of the song, ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ In the musical the song is sung by Jenna, who is pregnant by her abusive husband. The song is about self refection, looking back on
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