After many hours spent watching Titus Burgess on our TV screens in the likes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Schmigadoon! as well as wishing I could see him appear in some of his Broadway roles including Sebastian the Crab in the Little Mermaid and Zidler in Moulin Rouge he has finally made his way to London for his own concert
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From Brother and Sister duo Kaz and David Maloney with William Godfree comes Longitude: A Clockmaker’s Obsession. Longitude tells the real-life story of 18th century clockmaker John Harrison and his decades-long pursuit to develop an instrument to allow sailors to correctly measure Longitude (and thus location) for a £20,000 reward. The opening set the scene well and with imagery of
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Jerry’s Girls is a musical review which covers a large amount of Jerry Herman’s hits from shows such as Mack & Mabel, Mame, Hello Dolly, La Cage Aux Folles, A Day in Hollywood, Milk & Honey & Dear World. It is delivered by Jessica Martin, Cassidy Janson and Julie Yammanee who take the audience on a whirlwind tour of Herman’s
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a musical based on the 1968 film of the same name. The show tells of inventor Caractacus Potts and his 2 children, Jeremy and Jemima. He discovers that his children have developed an affection for a car in a junkyard that used to be a prize winning car and they convince their father to buy
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The Time Travellers Wife is a musical based on the book by Audrey Niffenegger which tells of Henry who time travellers due to a rare genetical condition and his wife Clare who remains constant and meets him not only on the correct timeline but at various other points in her life. Henry spends his time trying to get back to
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On Saturday I was lucky enough to take my family along to the Fairfield Halls pantomime of Aladdin. Upon entering we were greeted by the now very familiar light-up toys stall, tuck shop, hot food, cold food and my personal favourite, plenty of toilets, a must when taking young children to the theatre. This was very much the theme of
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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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