I was privileged to attend the West End Debut of the popular show 80’s Live The Ultimate Retro Concert at the Adelphi Theatre, London. This show is a step back in time to the iconic music from that era. From the moment I arrived at the theatre, the buzz in the queue was upbeat and lively and definitely gave the
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Diary of a Gay Disaster is billed as a new musical comedy which celebrates queer women and it is a show which lives up to its billing and more. Within the show we meet flatmates Mia and Finlay who are looking to welcome Ellis to their home. When Ellis arrives they soon discover her diary and after some convincing they
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Ain’t Too Proud tells the origin story of the Temptations in 1961 through to the Reunion Tour in the early 1980’s through the eyes of Otis Williams. We learn how Otis Williams brought the band together, how they signed to the Motown record label and worked with Smokey Robinson, how David Ruffin joined…and left the group through to the bands
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Groundhog Day is a musical based on the 1993 film of the same name. Following rave reviews in London in 2016 and a Broadway run in 2017 this musical has returned to the Old Vic and I decided to see what all the fuss was about. The show follows Phil Connors, an arrogant TV weatherman who is sent to small
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Sedos have got versatility down to a t, the last show I reviewed for them was Sunshine on Leith, a musical with songs by the Proclaimers and my current visit was to see Sondheim on Sondheim, two musicals that couldn’t be further apart stylistically. Sondheim on Sondheim is a musical revue featuring an eclectic mix of Sondheims songs, including songs
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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory The Musical opened on the West End in 2013 and ran for 3.5 years but it has taken until now for the show to tour the UK. The show is based on the Roald Dahl book which tells of Charlie Bucket who spends their day dreaming up new inventions and new ways to use junk
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Legally Blonde is a show I know like the back of my hand having seen 5 different versions of it prior to Festoon’s production and having directed an amateur production of it myself. Add onto this the fact that I am blonde and a lawyer it is a show that is very close to my heart. With shows that mean
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This classic G&S Operetta, the Mikado, not only fields an all-male cast, but has been transported to a 1950s private boys’ school camping trip: an inspired idea to ramp up the comedy to the max, even if there was a little ‘modified rapture’ in places. Except for retaining the name of the town of Titipu (it is, after all, the
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Yes you read the title correctly, at The Union Theatre there is a show currently running based on the gay hook up app Grindr! Within Grindr The Opera we meet 4 very different men, Don, a closeted gay man, Devon a Doctor fresh out of a long term relationship, Jack a twink who is happy to lower his standards for
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In My Fair Lady, a classic musical, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into a lady, who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle who agrees to speech lessons to improve
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