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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Families finding it difficult to put a decent meal on the table, town councillors lining their own pockets and an imminent Royal Occasion could indicate Britain today, but this is in fact the post-war Britain of 1947 magically conjured to life in the production of Betty Blue Eyes at the Union Theatre. The war has ended but Britain’s citizens are
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Guys & Dolls at The Bridge Theatre seems to be the show that all of theatre land is talking about at the moment so I went along to find out what was so special about it! The show itself is a classic Broadway musical which premiered in 1950. We meet Nathan Detroit, who runs a floating crap game and Adelaide,
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When I saw the Olivier award nominations, combined with the word of mouth Standing at the Sky’s Edge had been getting, I knew I had to see it. Luckily I managed to get tickets just before it closed its run at the National Theatre. Normally I wouldn’t write a review so close to its closing however with the hype around
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Sylvia is one of the new British Musical Theatre offerings to hit London this year. The show had a run in 2018 as a work in progress and this time it is back for its world premier. The show has book, lyrics, direction and choreography by Kate Prince along with Priya Parmer for the book and Josh Cohen and DJ
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