Tasting Notes is a new British musical set in a wine bar. Keen to support new musical theatre I headed along to Southwark Playhouse to see if the show would be to my taste. Tasting Notes tells the story of the same 24 hours in the lives of 6 individuals who either work in or visit LJ’s wine bar. The
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If you have been reading my blog a while you will know that I love a rock musical so when Centre Stage invited me to their compilation show with a rock concert vibe I was incredibly keen. Centre Stage’s Huge Stick of Musical rock takes 16 different rock musicals, 27 songs, a band of 6 and a choir of 30
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After 2 years in the making and covid delays aplenty the revival of Sister Act has finally hit the Hammersmith Apollo. The show is packed with star names from Beverly Knight as Deloris, Jennifer Saunders as Mother Superior, Lesley Joseph as the rapping Sister Mary Lazarus, Keala Seattle as Sister Mary Patrick and Lizzie Bea as Sister Mary Roberts. These
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Pennyroyal by Lucy Rosen is a new play which focuses on 2 sisters, Christine and Daphne. We discover early on that Daphne has Premature Ovarian Insufficiency and her sister donates eggs in the hope that Daphne can one day use them to become a mother. Except life is never that straightforward and the play follows these sisters on their journey
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Operation Mincemeat seems to be the new musical that everyone is raving about and I finally got to see it at Riverside Studios and understand just what all the fuss is about. Operation Mincemeat is set in 1943 and the Allies are losing the war. A plan is needed to direct the Nazi’s away from Sicily and this plan is
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Evita, by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, tells the story of Eva Duarte, born illegitimately in a small town but determined to get out of there and make it to the bright lights of Buenos Aires. Once she makes it there she advances her career as an actress and meets Colonel Juan Peron and together they climb their way
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Based on the gothic horror novel by Dame Susan Hill, The Woman in Black has spawned two films as well as the stage play that has been running at London’s Fortune Theatre since 1989. It’s a two-hander, with simple staging that makes the creation of a growing sense of tension over the two hours even more impressive. The Fortune Theatre
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Singin’ in the Rain is one of those classic movie musicals that you feel like everyone has seen, but apart from ‘that’ scene I haven’t seen the movie and whilst I have seen an amateur production previously I was looking forward to seeing this classic show in all of its glory. In Singin’ in the Rain we meet Don, a
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It’s not every day you find a solo dance show being performed at, not only a London theatre, but at Shaftesbury Avenues Lyric Theatre. Understandably I was rather sceptical about whether Metamorphosis has the appeal for an audience that is used to the biggest spectacles and daring feats of entertainment London’s West End has thrived upon. However, I stepped in
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I feel like I have been waiting a lifetime to see a fully staged version of Don Black, Ivan Menchell’s and Frank Wildhorn’s Bonnie & Clyde having fallen in love with the Broadway cast recording. I attended a workshop version at The Other Palace several years ago and the concert a few months back but both versions, (as amazing as
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