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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Kinky Boots – A musical about shoes……. as a shoe adoring musical theatre fan I have been waiting for Kinky Boots to hit the West End for what feels like forever. In reality it was probably since 2013 when Kinky Boots won the Tony award for best musical!! Luckily I was not disappointed. For those of you not familiar with the
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Avenue Q gets its Tweet On! I was lucky enough to be invited along with fellow blogger and friend Rochelle to take part in The Churchill Theatres 1st ever tweet seat for Avenue Q. For those of you unfamiliar with the term a tweet seat is where a member of the audience is encouraged to tweet their comments whilst
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Parade I attended Parade at London Theatre Workshop on Wednesday 2nd September. I should probably begin with a disclaimer – This is a musical I am extremely familiar with and love. This is the 5th production I have seen of this show. Previous productions I have seen of this show range from the original London production at the Domnar to
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I saw (intake of breath) ‘You Won’t Succeed On Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews,’ on Friday 28th August. The concept of the show is simple – it is a review show which goes from the 1930’s to present day showcasing songs from musicals by Jewish composers. If you love your musical theatre then this is the review show
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I attended Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Landor on Thursday 27th August. Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical set in the early 1920’s which sees Millie arrive in New York, determined to do things the modern way and marry for money rather than love. She checks into a hotel run by Mrs Meers who is actually the leader of a
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Songs For A New World by Jason Robert Brown I finally got round to seeing Songs For A New World at St James Theatre on Wednesday 5th August after hearing many good things about it. I should probably declare early on that I am a big fan of Jason Robert Brown and I have been a fan of this show
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Grand Hotel I saw the preview of Grand Hotel on Monday 3rd August 2015 at Southwark Playhouse. For those of you, like me, who had never seen the musical before it is set in 1928 over the course of 1 weekend where you see the various guests (and staff) collide. The guests include an ageing prima ballerina, a dying Jewish
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Tommy at the Greenwich Theatre. I attended the opening preview of Tommy on Wednesday 29th July 2015. I appreciate that it is not considered good form to review a show until Press night has been and gone in order to give a show a chance to get into it’s stride however I can’t help myself!!! I’m sure if any of the
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