Jackie The Musical Jackie The Musical officially opened in style last night at the Churchill Theatre with their press night. The musical is based on the magazine Jackie that was published from 1964 – 1993, selling in excess of 600,000 copies a week by the mid-1970’s. The musical focus on the adult that the Jackie girl in the 1970’s has
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Thursday 10th March 2016 saw the first ever UK revival of Bar Mitzvah Boy. The musical is based on the 1976 BBC play and Aria Entertainment present a scaled down version of the original musical. It tells of Eliot Green who is preparing to make his Bar Mitzvah and escapes from the Synagogue at the vital moment. It looks at
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I attended ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’ (one of the longest names for a musical I know & impractical to tweet the whole title) which was produced by SEDOS on the 9th March. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,’ is a musical comedy by Jimmy Robers and Joe DiPietro.
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Chicago at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford Chicago is one of these shows that appears to get more and more relevant with time as opposed to dating. Chicago is a show that is all about the power and cult of celebrity, how it can be all consuming for some and yet so fickle. This point is ironically enhanced by the
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Blood Brothers The Churchill Theatre continue with their programme of top quality shows and spoiling us bloggers with their latest offering, Blood Brothers. Blood Brothers is one of those musicals that I assume everyone has seen. It ran in the West End from 1988-2012 as well as toured since 1995 therefore there really is no excuse for those who haven’t
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Let It Be I have heard so much about ‘Let It Be’ but have never got round to seeing it, that was until Monday 25th January where I went to see it at the Churchill Theatre. Let It Be describes itself as ‘a celebration of the music of the Beatles’ which is essentially a Beatles tribute concert. There is no
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I was asked by Stagedoor app (more about them later) to review ‘Beautiful’ The Carole King Musical. Beautiful tells the life story of Carole King mixed in with her songs, along with a few others from that era, in particular by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil. It follows Carole King from selling her first song to Donnie Kirshner, to meeting
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Fellow Blogger Rochelle Bisson at A Musical Muppet won the Book of Mormon lottery and she kindly took me along to the Prince of Wales Theatre with her. This is the second time I have seen Book of Mormon and this time was from Row A so I got to get up close and personal with the cast. For those of
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Xanadu at Southwark Playhouse Xanadu is based on the 1980’s film, starring Olivia Newton-John. It tells the story of Sonny Malone who is an aspiring artist. The mural he is painting springs to life and out of it comes the Greek muses including, Clio, who changes her name to Kira for her time on earth. She tried to inspire Sonny
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The White Feather – A New British Musical. As you can probably tell from the blog name I adore musical theatre and I am also a big fan of supporting new work – therefore when I was invited to review The White Feather at the Union Theatre I jumped at the chance. The White Feather tells the story of Georgina
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