It has finally arrived….the long awaited and much talked about Musical Con. Today (22nd October 2022) the UK’s first every event of its kind. I was lucky enough to attend today so here are my highlights and even better ifs….. Musical Con – Highlights: I adored the backstage talks! For those that weren’t able to attend there was a huge
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Trump L’Oeil is a dizzying show which focuses on non other than former President Trump and his time in office. The title itself is a play on words from trompe l’oeil which means to deceive the eye. The show promises a blend of cabaret, queer theatre and circus so I was intrigued to see how all of this would manifest
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Help We Are Still Alive is a musical set after the end of the world as we know it. The fog landed and thanks to the quick thinking of Finn, he not only saved his own life but also that of his partner Jass. We follow Finn and Jass in their life after the apocalypse along with flashbacks to their
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Rehab is the newest British musical to hit London. The show takes us back to the cusp of the new millennium where Kid Pop, a ‘wanker’ of a pop star as the opening song tells us has been sentenced to 60 days in rehab due to being papped taking cocaine. However unbeknownst to Kid Pop it was set up by
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Ride is a musical which is catching momentum after an award winning short run at the Vault Festival and a workshop performance at Garrick Theatre. Now running for 3 weeks at the Charing Cross theatre this plucky musical tells the true story of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to cycle around the world in 1894. She does so off the
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I am not normally one to fan girl over performers, whilst I will often be in awe of their work I try to maintain a degree of professionalism due to this blog but with Jeremy Jordan this seems to go out of the window. To be fair when you combine vocals like he has with the concert he put on
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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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