I know that I am late to the party on Funny Girl but let me just explain how late……. I have never seen the Funny Girl movie, the only song I could sing you from Funny Girl was ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade,’ although I could possibly hum a few bars of ‘People’ at a push. On top of all
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So as you can probably gather I go to the theatre a lot and not all of the tickets I get through the blog. People are therefore constantly asking me how I afford it so I thought I would share with you some tips. Day Seats… Day seats allows you to turn up on the day and buy tickets for
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I was asked by Stagedoor app (more about them later) to review ‘Beautiful’ The Carole King Musical. Beautiful tells the life story of Carole King mixed in with her songs, along with a few others from that era, in particular by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil. It follows Carole King from selling her first song to Donnie Kirshner, to meeting
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Fellow Blogger Rochelle Bisson at A Musical Muppet won the Book of Mormon lottery and she kindly took me along to the Prince of Wales Theatre with her. This is the second time I have seen Book of Mormon and this time was from Row A so I got to get up close and personal with the cast. For those of
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Kinky Boots – A musical about shoes……. as a shoe adoring musical theatre fan I have been waiting for Kinky Boots to hit the West End for what feels like forever. In reality it was probably since 2013 when Kinky Boots won the Tony award for best musical!! Luckily I was not disappointed. For those of you not familiar with
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I was lucky enough to see Memphis for the 2nd time on Thursday 9th July. I don’t propose to go over the story or my thoughts on the show overall but feel free to check it out here! There was a couple of new faces to me in some of the main roles. First time round I saw Jon
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I finally saw Memphis on Wednesday 27th May at the Shaftesbury Theatre and there had been so much hype about this show I went expecting big things!! This is a show set in Memphis (funnily enough) during the 1950’s when race is a major issue. Mixed racial marriages are still illegal and rock and roll was becoming the biggest force in
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There has been a lot of hype about Gypsy so I decided it was time to see what all the fuss was about and check that it lived up to the 5 star reviews it obtained across the board. Gypsy is a classic musical which dates back to the golden age of musicals and actually opened on Broadway the same
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Kerry Ellis & Louise Dearman have announced a one night concert on the 27th September at the Prince Edward theatre. At the announcement this morning they advised they had known each other since they were 15 and attended a summer school together, despite this long history the 2 west end stars have never sung professionally together and have decided to
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