Closer Than Ever On the 26th April 2016 I attended The Pheasantry to see Closer Than Ever. As a huge musical theatre fan I was thrilled to be given an opportunity to see a piece I was not familiar with. Closer Than Ever is a song cycle by Maltby & Shire which focuses on love, relationships and the passing of
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert, has for some reason managed to evade me…until last night at the Orchard Theatre in Dartford. Priscilla is another musical that stems from a movie but due to it’s content the transition from screen to stage was no surprise. The show follows 2 drag queens and a transgender woman who are travelling from Sydney to
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American Idiot is one of those shows that I have wanted to see for an age but for one reason or another I didn’t make it….so I was hugely grateful to the Churchill Theatre for the invitation to their Gala night on Thursday 31st March. American Idiot is a musical which contains songs from the Greenday album of the same
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Jackie The Musical Jackie The Musical officially opened in style last night at the Churchill Theatre with their press night. The musical is based on the magazine Jackie that was published from 1964 – 1993, selling in excess of 600,000 copies a week by the mid-1970’s. The musical focus on the adult that the Jackie girl in the 1970’s has
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Well where to start with my review for Something Something Lazarus…. a bizarre show of two halves. The first half is founded in realism, the cast of the show are also a cast rehearsing for an unnamed show. The group are made up of Della, the musician of the group, Vee the performer with a fondness for gin who thinks she
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This week sees the final week of the Open Air Theatre tour for Lord of the Flies, having toured since September 2015 and the Churchill Theatre in Bromley plays host to this. During a (unnamed) war a plane, carrying a group of school boys crashes onto an island, killing all of the adults aboard. However 9 boys survive and the
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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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