Thursday 10th March 2016 saw the first ever UK revival of Bar Mitzvah Boy. The musical is based on the 1976 BBC play and Aria Entertainment present a scaled down version of the original musical. It tells of Eliot Green who is preparing to make his Bar Mitzvah and escapes from the Synagogue at the vital moment. It looks at
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I attended ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’ (one of the longest names for a musical I know & impractical to tweet the whole title) which was produced by SEDOS on the 9th March. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,’ is a musical comedy by Jimmy Robers and Joe DiPietro.
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So as you can probably gather I go to the theatre a lot and not all of the tickets I get through the blog. People are therefore constantly asking me how I afford it so I thought I would share with you some tips. Day Seats… Day seats allows you to turn up on the day and buy tickets for
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Chicago at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford Chicago is one of these shows that appears to get more and more relevant with time as opposed to dating. Chicago is a show that is all about the power and cult of celebrity, how it can be all consuming for some and yet so fickle. This point is ironically enhanced by the
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Blood Brothers The Churchill Theatre continue with their programme of top quality shows and spoiling us bloggers with their latest offering, Blood Brothers. Blood Brothers is one of those musicals that I assume everyone has seen. It ran in the West End from 1988-2012 as well as toured since 1995 therefore there really is no excuse for those who haven’t
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Hairspray at the London Oratory School by Cygnet Players With this review I shall start with a confession….I love Hairspray. I think it is a brilliant musical that has everything – great music, upbeat songs with a brilliant moral. I love it so much that directed the musical for Bromley Players. After my review of Cygnet Players’ production of the
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Romeo & Juliet I was invited by Unmasked Theatre company to attend their production of Romeo & Juliet at the Hawth Theatre in Crawley. Unmasked Theatre company is a company that focuses on ‘modernised stage adaptations of classic literature’ and previous works have included Anthony & Cleopatra and The Trojan Woman. Romeo & Juliet is a production that has been
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Reel Life by Folio Theatre My dealings with Folio Theatre Company began last year when I attended the launch night for Wimbledon’s studio theatre’s festival Illuminate. Whilst at the launch night I saw a promotion video for a play called Unearthed that spiked my interest. I therefore went along to watch Unearthed and was very impressed, so much so that
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The Perfect Murder: The Perfect Murder is a play based on Peter James novella which tells of a couple, Victor and Joan both dreaming of a new life without the other, but neither realising the others fantasy and the lengths they will go to in order to get it. I don’t want to go into too much detail regarding the
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Music of the Night… Having looked at Memory, Defying Gravity, Gethsemane, & Bring Him Home the next obvious musical theatre song to have a look at has to be Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera. The number Music of the Night comes when the Phantom finally gets Christine to his lair beneath the Opera house and begins
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