Every year at this time I love to look back at what I have seen over the year and give a little bit of recognition to the shows I’ve loved. This is the 4th roundup I’ve done so it has even become a bit of a festive tradition for me!! Do let me know if you would like to see
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When you think about what’s made musical theatre so wonderful over time, one of the real keys is how many different kinds of source material can be (and have been) turned into musicals. Films, works of literature, historical events, and completely original concepts can all work on a musical theatre stage, and while we don’t talk about it as much,
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2018 Musical Musings to Come – Top 10 picks – 2017 has been a great year of theatre with everything from Hamilton finally hitting the West End (in case you had missed that one) and the much talked about The Ferryman to a whole range of off West End shows having a huge impact on the theatre world. What will
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2017 Roundup – Best West End Musical….Hamilton There has been an insane amount of hype surrounding Hamilton and I was afraid it wouldn’t live up to it’s hype however I needn’t have worried and if I was able to give it 6 stars I would have. I was lucky enough to have secured tickets during previews and following seeing it
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The 10 Best Theatres in the UK Theatre has never gone out of fashion. Despite all the predictions, that it may become extinct and be replaced by television or the internet, theatre lives on and on and gains new levels of popularity with each decade. This is especially true about such country as Great Britain, the country that brought us
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2016 has been a great year for theatre but there is plenty in store in 2017. Here I have picked out several of the shows to watch out for! Hamilton For many Musical Theatre fans this show needs no introduction. Tickets go on sale for general release on the 30th January (pre-sale 16/1/17) but isn’t due to open until November
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With 2016 being the first full year of Musical Theatre Musings it is only proper that I do a roundup of the year from my favourite shows and theatres to my own personal blog highlights. Thank you to all my readers and those that invite me to shows and I hope to see many more shows in 2017!! Best West
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Music of the Night… Having looked at Memory, Defying Gravity, Gethsemane, & Bring Him Home the next obvious musical theatre song to have a look at has to be Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera. The number Music of the Night comes when the Phantom finally gets Christine to his lair beneath the Opera house and begins
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Upon making and publicising my new Facebook page for this blog I stated that amongst other things I would be reviewing amateur shows. This was faced with a comment advising me not to do so, which of course got me thinking and resulted in this post. When I put this question out on twitter and to friends I received some
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So as I have been busy getting married I haven’t been to the theatre for nearly 10 days now (withdrawal symptoms much) but always on the lookout for a good reason to blog I thought I’d pick up on a nomination I received a little while ago from Sarah over at ThingsSarahloves for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. Essentially
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