Banana Hut Gang is an improv group consisting of Alex Magliaro, Chris Warner, James Stone, Jess Rogers, Jonny Scott, Laura Capaldi, and Sam Pearce. I’d tell you who the lead is but there’s 6/7 chance I’ll be wrong, depending on when you see it. I was treated to Sam Pearce as our protagonist and he did not disappoint. He starred
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Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical is a new jukebox musical based on the iconic 90’s film of the same name. For those of you who haven’t seen the film allow me to summarise: Cruel Intentions tells of Katherine and Sebastian, step-siblings who place a wager. The wager centres on Sebastian being able to bed new girl and declared virgin, Annette
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Who is the West End producer and what on earth is Free Willy? Well I can’t strictly answer the first part of the question as his true identity is one of Theatreland’s most closely guarded secrets. However what I do know is that he has a column for The Stage, he has written a book and even run 2 Twitter
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NoseR The Startup Musical is a new musical written by Lily Smith. It tells of Melodie who has a fine nose, she can sniff out a huge variety of scents. She decides to use this talent and move from France to the UK and begins work for Noser, an app which attempts to bring a nose to every phone. Along
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Unfortunate does to the Little Mermaid what Wicked did to The Wizard of Oz. Fat Rascal Theatre Company take the story you think you know and turns it on its head. Unfortunate reveals that at one point Ursula and King Triton were lovers torn apart by Triton’s father. If this wasn’t enough Ursula’s treatment of Ariel is at the bequest
Read moreMusik is a new one woman show with 4 new songs by the Pet Shop Boys and book by Jonathan Harvey. It follows the story of Billie Trix who appeared in their previous show, Closer to Heaven and looks back on her outrageous career. She talks about her move from Berlin to both Paris and London, her love affairs with
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You and I is a show about family and friendship, even if that friendship comes in the unlikely form of robot Robert. Fran needs to start living her life more and when Robert, a form of artificial intelligence (Robert himself denies that he is a robot) lands on her doorstep he is part of the push that Fran needs. Simultaneously
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It’ll Be Alt Right On The Night tells the tale of a friendship between Stevo and Greeny. Stevo and Greeny grew up together, sharing a love of punk but as they grew older their lives take them on different paths. Stevo moves towards the right, declaring things such as being Conservative is in the new punk rock and celebrates at
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As someone that can relate to the title I was excited to see this show. I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical is a comedic review show by Alexander S.Bermange. It focuses on the life of a musical theatre performer. Throughout the show we are treated to a selection of comic songs which takes us through from the glitzy
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I heard about Tokyo Rose when I was at All That Scratch, an Edinburgh Fringe special at the Other Palace. I was treated to one number from the score in this convert and immediately I knew I had to see the full thing! Tokyo Rose tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American who was born and raised
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