The Simon and Garfunkel Story at the Lyric Theatre I need to start this review with a disclaimer….I am not a Simon & Garfunkel fanatic, prior to the show ask me to name more than 2 of their songs I would have struggled however ‘Daddy Musical Theatre Musings’ who accompanied me is a fan. It was therefore an interesting experience
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Everybody’s Talking About Jamie was this years birthday theatre trip for me and a present from Mr Musical Theatre Musings. The show stems from a documentary about Jamie Campbell (renamed Jamie New in the show), a 16 year old boy with an ambition to wear a dress to his prom. The musical follows Jamie from his
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Animus by Trinity Laban at Laban Theatre As a huge advocate of the arts and the power of it I am a massive believer that an important way to support the arts is to support those coming through their training. I was lucky enough to be invited to Trinity Laban’s 3rd year production of new musical Animus. Animus is by
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Big Fish The Musical Big Fish is the latest musical to hit The Other Palace’s main stage and after watching the movie many years ago and loving it, I was excited to see what the musical version had to offer. The show, originally a novel by Daniel Wallace, tells of Edward Bloom, a dying man who has spent his life
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The Toxic Avenger at The Arts Theatre How do you sum up The Toxic Avenger….well there are very few words that can do this crazy musical justice. The Toxic Avenger is based on the 1980’s superhero,comedy B movie of the same name. In New Jersey the city is drowning in toxic waste and one unlikely hero, Melvin takes up the
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Cilla Cilla is one of the latest jukebox musicals doing the rounds which not only features the songs of Cilla Black herself but also numbers from her era by artists such as The Beatles and The Mamas and Papas. The show follows Cilla White (her real name) from her early days singing at the now famous Cavern Club, her meeting
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The Addams Family – The Musical Comedy. I’ve been curious about The Addams Family tour for many months now. It took me until the last stop at the Orchard Theatre to finally see it….but I’m glad I made it and on Halloween of all nights. The Addams Family musical follows the famous family as daughter Wednesday gets her first boyfriend
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Mister Maker and The Shapes – Orchard Theatre I don’t think I am the target audience for Mister Maker and the Shapes – being neither a child nor able to take one along to entertain for the afternoon I turned to one of my lovely mummy friends Caroline and asked her and her daughter would be kind enough to guest review this
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Our House – The Madness Musical National press night took place for Our House at the Churchill Theatre on Wednesday night and with the likes of Charlie Stemp and Paul Taylor Mills in attendance it was a very stagey affair. By Tim Firth of Calendar Girls fame, Our House tells of Joe Casey. We meet Joe on his 16th birthday
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Annie – At the Piccadilly Theatre. Annie is a musical that even non musical theatre lovers have seen, whether that’s on stage, the original movie or even the more recent film version. For those that have managed to somehow avoid it Annie tells of a group of Orphans, living with Miss Hannigan. When Mr Warbucks secretary, Grace comes to the
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