Two Strangers Carry A Cake Across New York is another new British musical making big waves at the moment. After smaller runs at festivals for new musical theatre the show received a great reception at Kiln Theatre and made its transfer to the West End. The show tells of Dougal, an enthusiastic British twentysomething who has come to New York
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MJ The Musical feels like it has been a long time coming to the West End, the show was due to open on Broadway in 2020 but due to Covid it opened in 2021 and it was announced that it was coming to the to West End was made back in October 2022. Some 18 months after the announcement I
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This is 4th time I have reviewed Blood Brothers on here and it is overall possibly the show that I have seen the most, so suffice to say I know it like the back of my hand. It’s also a show that I assume that most people have seen, it ran in the West End from 1988-2012 and has toured
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Wild About You is the latest in a flurry of musical concerts to hit the West End. The show opens with Olivia in hospital, with a case of amnesia which included being unable to remember why or how she got there (and frustratingly we never really discover the answer). Throughout Act 1 you see her piece back together her life
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West End Sessions is a concert series that is taking place at Brooks Mews Bar, a cute wine bar tucked down a pretty Mayfair street. West End sessions has seen the likes of Kerry Ellis and Alice Fearn grace its stage but when I was there I was treated to Christina Bianco alongside the host and organiser Daniel Koek. The
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is on tour and I decided to catch it in London at the Peacock theatre. The musical is based on the true story of Jamie, a 16 year old growing up in Sheffield who decides he wants to be a drag queen and embrace his true self by wearing a dress and heels to his school
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The Wizard of Oz isn’t one of the shows that I would typically be banging down a door to see and I missed it for that reason when it was at the Palladium but when the chance came up to see it at New Wimbledon Theatre I thought I may as well give it a go….and boy am I glad
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Having wowed audiences at Regents Park Theatre in 2017 Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic rock musical which tells the story of the last days of Jesus is on tour. With hype surrounding the show following its Olivier award win in 2017 for best revival, will the show live up to the hype….read on to find out. Programme notes
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Since Hadestown appeared at the National In 2018 it seems like the West End audiences have been begging for it to get a full scale run in the London and now they have got their wish, however would it live up to the built up expectations? The show is based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, two young
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Pretty Woman the musical has hit Wimbledon following a 2 year run in the West End which I saw twice and loved both times. The musical follows the film pretty faithfully and tells of Vivian who is a prostitute working in Hollywood. She bumps into billionaire Edward Lewis and her interest in classic cars and ability to strike a deal
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