If there was a competition over polarising musical then Diana has to be one of the favourites to win. For the UK audiences up until Monday night, this musical was only available via a Pro Shot on Netflix after the show played on Broadway for just 33 performances and 16 previews. The Pro Shot won worst picture, worst director, worst
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Treason is a musical currently in development and one with a huge amount of talk behind it. From a 5 track EP featuring Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser through to last years 2 night concert a Drury Lane and culminating in this fully staged version, playing in Edinburgh, Sheffield and London. The show follows the gunpowder plot of 1605, narrated
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Unless you have been living in a pineapple in the sea the chances are you have heard of SpongeBob SquarePants, the American animated children’s TV show which tells of life in Bikini Bottom with SpongeBob, his best friend Patrick Star and Sandy as well as Plankton, Karen and Mr Krabs. The musical takes many of these well known elements and
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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory The Musical opened on the West End in 2013 and ran for 3.5 years but it has taken until now for the show to tour the UK. The show is based on the Roald Dahl book which tells of Charlie Bucket who spends their day dreaming up new inventions and new ways to use junk
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Yes you read the title correctly, at The Union Theatre there is a show currently running based on the gay hook up app Grindr! Within Grindr The Opera we meet 4 very different men, Don, a closeted gay man, Devon a Doctor fresh out of a long term relationship, Jack a twink who is happy to lower his standards for
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Glory Ride is a new musical to hit London. It is based on the true story of Tour de France winning cyclist Gino Bartali who, whilst working with Cardinal of Florence, Elia Dalla Costa and accountant Nico, hid and smuggled Jews and other refuges out of Italy to safety. We learn how Bartali convinces his childhood fried Mario Costa to
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Following a successful run at both the Old Vic and Noel Coward theatre, Conor McPherson’s show, the Girl From The North Country is now on tour around the UK. The show, set in the 1930’s follows a family that run a guesthouse in Minnesota. Struggling, not only with the Great Depression but with illness, race and unplanned pregnancies, Nick Laine,
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Newsies is the musical based on the true story of the newsies strike. It follows Jack Kelly, the leader of the Lower Manhattan newsboys. The newspaper, lead by Joseph Pulitzer, decides it needs to increase its profits so they increase the cost of the papers for the newsies. Jack soon declares that the newsies are a union and calls for
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2022 has been a great year for theatre with things finally returning to normal after the pandemic. I love looking back at all of the shows I have seen over the year and reflecting on how lucky I am to see such a huge variety of shows, many of which I wouldn’t see if it weren’t for this blog. This
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Who’s Holiday is a new (to the UK) take on the Grinch and Cindy Lou. We meet Cindy Lou, played by Miz Cracker several years since we last saw her in The Grinch. In our last meeting of Cindy- Lou she was 2 years old but she has now grown up and a lot has happened to her in the
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