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
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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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Naughty Noel…. I attended the delightfully spiffing production of A Naughty Night With Noel Coward on Wednesday 12th August at The Old Red Lion Theatre and was treated to two short one act plays about marriage of the upper class in the 1920’s/1930’s. The first play is ‘We Were Dancing’ which was first seen in 1935. This focuses on Karl
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Miss-Leading Ladies at St James Studio Theatre I was lucky enough to be invited to Miss-Leading Ladies on Friday 7th August. Miss-Leading Ladies stars brother and sister, Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree as they celebrate some of the greatest stars of stage and screen. Ria and Ceri had me laughing from the off. Their welcome patter discussing Gypsy and the
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Baila Brazil at the Southbank Centre I attended Baila Brazil at the Southbank Centre on Thursday 6th August 2015 with a lovely bunch of fellow ‘LDNTheatreBloggers.’ This is a dance production by the company named Cia de Danca Bale de Rua (street ballet) who dance a fusion of samba, capoeira, funk and breakdancing along with live percussion and singing. The
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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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I was lucky enough to see Memphis for the 2nd time on Thursday 9th July. I don’t propose to go over the story or my thoughts on the show overall but feel free to check it out here! There was a couple of new faces to me in some of the main roles. First time round I saw Jon
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Top Hat The Churchill Theatre on the 16th June 2015 Top Hat is a traditional show based on the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger’s film of the same name about mistaken identity. Jerry Travers, played by Alan Burkitt, falls heads over heels for the beautiful Dale Tremont, played by Charlotte Gooch, despite Dale being convinced that he is already
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I finally saw Memphis on Wednesday 27th May at the Shaftesbury Theatre and there had been so much hype about this show I went expecting big things!! This is a show set in Memphis (funnily enough) during the 1950’s when race is a major issue. Mixed racial marriages are still illegal and rock and roll was becoming the biggest force in
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