Le Gasp! Productions’ JULIE: The Musical is a hilarious and witty celebration of non-conformity based on the life of queer icon, Julie D’Aubigny, and her experiences as a worshipped opera singer, renowned swordswoman and flaming bisexual. Sitting in the studio in the depths of The Other Palace, I awaited excited as I saw one by one what I thought were
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The great British public love a good ghost story as evidenced by the huge amount of supernatural programmes on our TV or even the sheer volume of podcasts about the topic. I am no different but of course my preferred method of ghost story consumption is watching them on stage. 2:22 A Ghost Story initially opened in July 2021 and
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Babies is the new kid….or baby in town when it comes to British Musicals. This new musical by Jack Godfrey (music, lyrics and orchestration) and Martha Geelan (book and director) takes audiences back to their school days. Our 9 classmates are tasked with keeping a baby in the form of a crying doll with sensors looked after over the course
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Fun at The Beach Romp-Bomp-A-Lomp is billed as a cross between Grease and Squid Games and as a big fan of both I was looking forward to what I hoped would be a goofy, evening full of parody. The show, written by Martin Landry with music and lyrics by Brandon Lambert, is a set on the beach where our 6
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Bluets will not be everyone’s cup of tea. It is not a traditional stage play. It is a multi-modal technological marvel. It exists somewhere in a largely unexplored realm lying between live TV, art-house cinema and theatre. It is the uncategorisable sum of an unfathomable number of parts, brought together with split-second sharp choreography, on-the-fly video editing, and a uniqueness
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Jerry’s Girls is a musical review which covers a large amount of Jerry Herman’s hits from shows such as Mack & Mabel, Mame, Hello Dolly, La Cage Aux Folles, A Day in Hollywood, Milk & Honey & Dear World. It is delivered by Jessica Martin, Cassidy Janson and Julie Yammanee who take the audience on a whirlwind tour of Herman’s
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a musical based on the 1968 film of the same name. The show tells of inventor Caractacus Potts and his 2 children, Jeremy and Jemima. He discovers that his children have developed an affection for a car in a junkyard that used to be a prize winning car and they convince their father to buy
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In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child we meet Harry and his family 19 years after we last left Harry Potter. He now has a family of his own and his youngest song, Albus is at Hogwarts along with the son of Draco Malfoy, Scorpius. The show looks at how Albus struggles with living up to his father’s legacy as
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Jesus Christ Superstar is, in my humble opinion, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s best score and despite having seen this production in Regent’s Park Theatre twice before I jumped at the chance to review it out on tour. The show tells of Jesus’ life in his last few days leading up to the crucifixion with a focus on Judas and his growing
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Being a teacher and having children, I’m no stranger to the wacky world of David Walliams, but this darker story of Awful Auntie was one that was new to me. The story is of young Stella, told her parents had been killed in a tragic accident, who believes it may not be as accidental as it first seems. With the
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