Ride is one of the hottest new British Musicals at the moment. Starting life at the Vaults festival, a short run last year at The Charing Cross theatre (which I saw and adored) it is now back for a run at the Southwark Playhouse. This plucky musical tells the true story of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to cycle around
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Annie Get Your Gun is the inaugural show at the new open air Lavender Theatre in Epsom. Annie Get Your Gun is a classic show that most musical theatre lovers have seen thanks to the film from the 1950’s but somehow it has passed me by so not only was I looking forward to checking out a new theatre but
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Diary of a Gay Disaster is billed as a new musical comedy which celebrates queer women and it is a show which lives up to its billing and more. Within the show we meet flatmates Mia and Finlay who are looking to welcome Ellis to their home. When Ellis arrives they soon discover her diary and after some convincing they
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Ain’t Too Proud tells the origin story of the Temptations in 1961 through to the Reunion Tour in the early 1980’s through the eyes of Otis Williams. We learn how Otis Williams brought the band together, how they signed to the Motown record label and worked with Smokey Robinson, how David Ruffin joined…and left the group through to the bands
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Groundhog Day is a musical based on the 1993 film of the same name. Following rave reviews in London in 2016 and a Broadway run in 2017 this musical has returned to the Old Vic and I decided to see what all the fuss was about. The show follows Phil Connors, an arrogant TV weatherman who is sent to small
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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory The Musical opened on the West End in 2013 and ran for 3.5 years but it has taken until now for the show to tour the UK. The show is based on the Roald Dahl book which tells of Charlie Bucket who spends their day dreaming up new inventions and new ways to use junk
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This classic G&S Operetta, the Mikado, not only fields an all-male cast, but has been transported to a 1950s private boys’ school camping trip: an inspired idea to ramp up the comedy to the max, even if there was a little ‘modified rapture’ in places. Except for retaining the name of the town of Titipu (it is, after all, the
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Yes you read the title correctly, at The Union Theatre there is a show currently running based on the gay hook up app Grindr! Within Grindr The Opera we meet 4 very different men, Don, a closeted gay man, Devon a Doctor fresh out of a long term relationship, Jack a twink who is happy to lower his standards for
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Fisherman’s Friends is the musical about the most unlikely of topics, a group of men from Cornwall singing Sea Shanties! The show is set in a small Cornish village where community is the priority and outsiders are treated with distain. This all changes when Danny arrives, determined to get back into A&R he convinces the small group of singers that
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Glory Ride is a new musical to hit London. It is based on the true story of Tour de France winning cyclist Gino Bartali who, whilst working with Cardinal of Florence, Elia Dalla Costa and accountant Nico, hid and smuggled Jews and other refuges out of Italy to safety. We learn how Bartali convinces his childhood fried Mario Costa to
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