Cinderella at The Churchill Theatre I will happily admit that when it comes to pantomimes I am a big kid. I love the tradition of them and recognise that often they may be a child’s first experience of live theatre or a family’s only trip to the theatre in a year. I was therefore thrilled to go along to review
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Hot Gay Time Machine at Trafalgar Studios 2 Where do I even begin in describing Hot Gay Time Machine? We meet Zak Ghazi-Torbati and Toby Marlow who decide to use the time machine that they have discovered to revisit ‘seminal’ moments in their lives. Amongst other scenes we see them coming out to their parents, in the boys locker room
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Seussical The Musical Seussical is a musical aimed at all the family and based on the works of Dr Seuss. It tells of Hornton the Elephant who hears tiny voices coming from a clover. These voices turn out to be JoJo and her family who live on a tiny planet on this clover. Hornton sets out to save them. Along
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Dr Dolittle at the Churchill Theatre Dr Dolittle opened its national tour at the Churchill Theatre this week. Based on the book and the 1967 film this is very much a retelling of the traditional story for the modern audience. Dr Dolittle tells the story of a man who, with the help of his parrot Polynesia, learns how to talk
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A Very Very Very Dark Matter at Bridge Theatre I normally begin my reviews by setting the scene briefly – a description of what the show is about but even as I read back the show description I find myself baffled. This is Martin McDonagh’s newest piece and therefore comes with high hopes and expectations. The premise of a Very
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The Tap Dogs Are Back In Town Since their debut back in 2010, Dein Perry’s Tap Dogs has toured some of the world’s biggest cities, including Cape Town, Johannesburg and Shanghai, and this October, they will be returning to London in a limited run at The Peacock Theatre, Saddlers Wells. As a tap dancing fanatic, Adam Garcia has always been
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Six at The Arts Theatre After a sold out run in Edinburgh the Six Queens have hit the Arts Theatre. After seeing the show and loving it in Edinburgh and was keen to see it in London and check that it all wasn’t some musical theatre/pop dream…..luckily it was not and it was everything I had dreamed of and more
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Saturday Night Fever at New Wimbledon Theatre Saturday Night Fever is an iconic movie with iconic dance moves. Even those who haven’t seen the film or any of the previous productions of the musical are able to identify the night fever move and the white suit. The show is set in the 1970’s and set to Bee Gee’s music. We
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Madagascar The Musical at New Wimbledon Theatre Madagascar The Musical opened with a bang last night at New Wimbledon Theatre. Based on the DreamWorks 2005 movie it is the newest family musical to hit the stage. The show tells of Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo. A group of friends who, at the
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The Musical Theatre Quiz at The Other Palace When The Other Palace announced that they were running a quiz night themed around Musical Theatre I knew I had to get there! Unfortunately due to life generally getting in the way it took me until July’s offering to get myself down there. In fact it took the lovely Charlotte from Talk
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