Diva: Live From Hell has finally hit London! After a Covid enforced delay I was keen to see if this show had been worth waiting for! Diva: Live From Hell is a one man show as told by Desmond Channing, set in the ‘Seventh Circle,’ a Cabaret Club in hell. Desmond Channing is President of his drama club but when
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Get Up Stand Up is a musical which follows the life of Bob Marley, from his formative years being sent to live with his fathers family through to his death from cancer aged 36. It not only packs in many of his biggest songs but also takes a look at both the highs and lows of his life, with no
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The tour of Footloose has arrived at its last stop of its tour and I headed over to New Wimbledon Theatre to check it out. It’s a show I know inside out having directed an amateur production of it so I was excited to see this production of it. If you know the 1984 film then the show needs no
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Tasting Notes is a new British musical set in a wine bar. Keen to support new musical theatre I headed along to Southwark Playhouse to see if the show would be to my taste. Tasting Notes tells the story of the same 24 hours in the lives of 6 individuals who either work in or visit LJ’s wine bar. The
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If you have been reading my blog a while you will know that I love a rock musical so when Centre Stage invited me to their compilation show with a rock concert vibe I was incredibly keen. Centre Stage’s Huge Stick of Musical rock takes 16 different rock musicals, 27 songs, a band of 6 and a choir of 30
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After 2 years in the making and covid delays aplenty the revival of Sister Act has finally hit the Hammersmith Apollo. The show is packed with star names from Beverly Knight as Deloris, Jennifer Saunders as Mother Superior, Lesley Joseph as the rapping Sister Mary Lazarus, Keala Seattle as Sister Mary Patrick and Lizzie Bea as Sister Mary Roberts. These
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Operation Mincemeat seems to be the new musical that everyone is raving about and I finally got to see it at Riverside Studios and understand just what all the fuss is about. Operation Mincemeat is set in 1943 and the Allies are losing the war. A plan is needed to direct the Nazi’s away from Sicily and this plan is
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Singin’ in the Rain is one of those classic movie musicals that you feel like everyone has seen, but apart from ‘that’ scene I haven’t seen the movie and whilst I have seen an amateur production previously I was looking forward to seeing this classic show in all of its glory. In Singin’ in the Rain we meet Don, a
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I feel like I have been waiting a lifetime to see a fully staged version of Don Black, Ivan Menchell’s and Frank Wildhorn’s Bonnie & Clyde having fallen in love with the Broadway cast recording. I attended a workshop version at The Other Palace several years ago and the concert a few months back but both versions, (as amazing as
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Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World is a NEW musical adaptation based on the children’s book by Kate Pankhurst ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World’. The musical tells the story of a young girl Jade who gets lost on a school trip and ends up in an unopened exhibition with some of the greatest women in history. Would
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