Fellow Blogger Rochelle Bisson at A Musical Muppet won the Book of Mormon lottery and she kindly took me along to the Prince of Wales Theatre with her. This is the second time I have seen Book of Mormon and this time was from Row A so I got to get up close and personal with the cast. For those of
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With 2016 nearly upon us I wanted to do a roundup of the shows to watch out for in the coming year…. Grey Gardens – 2nd January – 6th February 2016 – Southwark Playhouse The award winning musical finally transfers from Broadway. The show is the first Broadway Musical to be based on a documentary. The cast stars both
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2015 has been a busy year for Musical Theatre Musings. It saw the start of this blog to at some points reviewing 3/4 shows a week for this blog and other publications. In total I saw 50 shows. 2015 also saw my first outing with the lovely #LDNTheatreBloggers to see Balla Brazil after chatting to many on them on twitter for
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Dick Whittington at The Orchard Theatre, Dartford. I was lucky enough to attend Dick Whittington on the 15th December, which is the Orchard Theatres pantomime offering this year. The Orchard has really ticked all of the panto boxes this year, it revels in the traditional pantomime gags and meets expectations of the seasoned panto goer whilst managing to present to the
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I attended press night on December 1st for this years panto offering, Aladdin, at the Churchill Theatre. I consider myself a bit of a panto buff having worked far too many in my years front of house, would this live up to my expectations and get me firmly into the Christmas mood on the first day of December. This version
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Who Sang It Better – Memory In my last of ‘Who Sang It Better’ posts I looked at Andrew Lloyd Webbers, Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar. I thought I would therefore turn my attention next to a female song by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Memory is the most famous song from Cats. It is sung by Grizabella and the song is
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Xanadu at Southwark Playhouse Xanadu is based on the 1980’s film, starring Olivia Newton-John. It tells the story of Sonny Malone who is an aspiring artist. The mural he is painting springs to life and out of it comes the Greek muses including, Clio, who changes her name to Kira for her time on earth. She tried to inspire Sonny
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Who Sang It Better – Gethsemane As some of you may know I perform in amateur dramatics shows….. the song choice is therefore fitting as I am performing in Jesus Christ Superstar this week. The song from Jesus Christ Superstar I’ve chosen is Gethsemane. This comes at the point in the show where Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane
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The Waiting Room I was invited to see the Waiting Room by What’s It All About Productions on Wednesday 13th October 2015 at the Courtyard. The premise of this show is that 3 strangers have been sent a letter to come to a meeting. All they know is that the senders of this letter knows their name and date of
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Wonderush – Say no to FOMO bloggers day I was lucky enough to be invited via the lovely #ldntheatre bloggers to the Wonderush bloggers day. Wonderush is a monthly subscription site (currently £29) that gives their members access to classes and experiences across London. What sets it apart from other subscription sites such as class pass is the sheer variety
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