Kinky Boots – A musical about shoes……. as a shoe adoring musical theatre fan I have been waiting for Kinky Boots to hit the West End for what feels like forever. In reality it was probably since 2013 when Kinky Boots won the Tony award for best musical!! Luckily I was not disappointed. For those of you not familiar with the
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I attended Jewish Legends on the 9th September at Upstairs at the Gatehouse. It appears that review shows featuring Jewish artists are all the rage at the moment as I only attended ‘You Won’t Succeed On Broadway If you Don’t Have Any Jews,’ less than 2 weeks ago. The premise of the show is very simple – it look sat
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Avenue Q gets its Tweet On! I was lucky enough to be invited along with fellow blogger and friend Rochelle to take part in The Churchill Theatres 1st ever tweet seat for Avenue Q. For those of you unfamiliar with the term a tweet seat is where a member of the audience is encouraged to tweet their comments whilst
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Parade I attended Parade at London Theatre Workshop on Wednesday 2nd September. I should probably begin with a disclaimer – This is a musical I am extremely familiar with and love. This is the 5th production I have seen of this show. Previous productions I have seen of this show range from the original London production at the Domnar to
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I saw (intake of breath) ‘You Won’t Succeed On Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews,’ on Friday 28th August. The concept of the show is simple – it is a review show which goes from the 1930’s to present day showcasing songs from musicals by Jewish composers. If you love your musical theatre then this is the review show
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I attended Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Landor on Thursday 27th August. Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical set in the early 1920’s which sees Millie arrive in New York, determined to do things the modern way and marry for money rather than love. She checks into a hotel run by Mrs Meers who is actually the leader of a
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Who Sang It Better – Defying Gravity As my look at Bring Him Home went down so well I have decided it is now time to look at an iconic female song and what better than Defying Gravity from Wicked. For those of you unfamiliar with the show the song comes at the end of Act 1 when Elphaba finds
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One Man Two Guvnors by Putney Light Operatic Society I was invited to attend the UK amateur premier of ‘One Man Two Guvnors’ by PLOS (Putney Light Operatic Society) on Wednesday 19th August 2015. For those of you unfamiliar with the play One Man Two Guvnors is a farce set in Brighton in the 1960’s. It follows easily confused Francis Henshall
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Who Sang It Better… Bring Him Home from Les Miserables This is the first entry in my new series – Who Sang It Better when I look at different versions of the song and come to my humble conclusion of who sang it better? I’d love to hear from you to see if you agree with my conclusion! I am
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Naughty Noel…. I attended the delightfully spiffing production of A Naughty Night With Noel Coward on Wednesday 12th August at The Old Red Lion Theatre and was treated to two short one act plays about marriage of the upper class in the 1920’s/1930’s. The first play is ‘We Were Dancing’ which was first seen in 1935. This focuses on Karl
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