Grand Hotel I saw the preview of Grand Hotel on Monday 3rd August 2015 at Southwark Playhouse. For those of you, like me, who had never seen the musical before it is set in 1928 over the course of 1 weekend where you see the various guests (and staff) collide. The guests include an ageing prima ballerina, a dying Jewish
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For those of you that have not heard of Natalie Weiss where have you been?? Natalie is an American singer who has performed in the American tour of Wicked and Les Miserables as well as a sell out show in London. She is perhaps best known for her YouTube series ‘Breaking Down the Riffs,’ which has had 3 million hits.
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Tommy at the Greenwich Theatre. I attended the opening preview of Tommy on Wednesday 29th July 2015. I appreciate that it is not considered good form to review a show until Press night has been and gone in order to give a show a chance to get into it’s stride however I can’t help myself!!! I’m sure if any of the
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Love Birds sees my first guest reviewer- Emily. Whilst I was gutted to be unable to attend Love Birds I’m thrilled that Emily could make the outing for Musicaltheatremusings. She runs her own blog at ‘thatemily’ so please do drop her own blog a visit or check her out on Twitter at @cpfcrox for more of her reviews. This is
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Dog Play Dead by The Well Behaved Women. I was invited to attend The Edinburgh preview of Dog Play Dead at Theatre 503 on the 27th July. The company aims to give women a strong presence in the arts and Dog Play Dead is written by a woman and stars 5 women. It is a play about 4 girls who get into
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Getting Children Into Theatre – The summer holiday is upon us and often parents are left wondering what to do to fill those long 6 weeks. This is the perfect chance to introduce your child to the world of theatre which, depending on the show choice can be anything from pure entertainment to educational. Here are my top picks and
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I was lucky enough to see Memphis for the 2nd time on Thursday 9th July. I don’t propose to go over the story or my thoughts on the show overall but feel free to check it out here! There was a couple of new faces to me in some of the main roles. First time round I saw Jon
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East is East at The Churchill Theatre : Monday 6th June 2015. East is East is a play about a mixed ethnicity family in Salford, with the father, George Khan (played by Simon Nahra) trying to instil into his children the Pakistani values he grew up with whilst the mother, Ella Khan (played by Pauline McLynn) who is white and
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Upon making and publicising my new Facebook page for this blog I stated that amongst other things I would be reviewing amateur shows. This was faced with a comment advising me not to do so, which of course got me thinking and resulted in this post. When I put this question out on twitter and to friends I received some
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So as I have been busy getting married I haven’t been to the theatre for nearly 10 days now (withdrawal symptoms much) but always on the lookout for a good reason to blog I thought I’d pick up on a nomination I received a little while ago from Sarah over at ThingsSarahloves for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. Essentially
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