Having seen Unfortunate at The Edinburgh Festival 2019 and loving it I was so excited to see how the show had developed in the intervening years and discover what a longer version of the show looked like. As I said in my earlier review Unfortunate does to the Little Mermaid what Wicked did to The Wizard of Oz, just maybe
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My disclaimer at the start is that I am a HUGE panto fan. I genuinely believe it gives many children not only their first visit to the theatre but also for many others their only family theatre trip of the year. Combine that with the tradition of it all and how much panto can make for the arts industry, well
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If there was a competition over polarising musical then Diana has to be one of the favourites to win. For the UK audiences up until Monday night, this musical was only available via a Pro Shot on Netflix after the show played on Broadway for just 33 performances and 16 previews. The Pro Shot won worst picture, worst director, worst
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The sinking of the Titanic is a moment that has gone down in history, remembered for the grandeur of the ship itself, the literary of mistakes and the sheer numbers of lives lost. The musical however comes at the tragedy from a much more personal level, focusing on real people who were aboard the ship. In the musical we meet
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I should say from the off that I am usually more of a fan of modern musicals and that the more traditional style of shows really have to go some to hold my interest and Holiday Inn most definitely falls into the traditional catalogue. The show itself is where Irving Berlin’s song ‘White Christmas’ originated from and it tells of
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For the 3rd year in a row I kicked my Christmas off with Jinkx and DeLa and their Holiday Show. Whilst it is still mid November I decided to lean in hard to this and it is fast becoming a tradition for me! Each year their show has a different premise, 2 years ago it was about coming out of
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Treason is a musical currently in development and one with a huge amount of talk behind it. From a 5 track EP featuring Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser through to last years 2 night concert a Drury Lane and culminating in this fully staged version, playing in Edinburgh, Sheffield and London. The show follows the gunpowder plot of 1605, narrated
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Spring Awakening is based on the 1981 German Play which tells of a group of teens coming of age in the late 19th century. The show itself originally opening in 2006 on Broadway but since then it has spawned many revivals including a very successful run at the Almeida in 2021/2022 so I was keen to see how Geoids were
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Seize The Cheese is a new British musical which focuses on the cheese rolling festival in Gloucestershire. We meet the keeper of the cheese who has magic vested in her by the cheese spirits and she introduces us to several of the participants, Ian the inventor who has invented a safety suit, Jake and his wife Susan who are having
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Lizzie is a rock musical which tells the story of Lizzie Borden. The show focuses on Lizzie, her older sister Emma, her neighbour and love interest Alice and her maid Bridget. In 1892 Lizzie is accused of murdering her father and step-mother…with an axe and overnight she becomes the centre of a media storm and an American killing legend. The
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