Candace Bushnell has hit London, more specifically the London Palladium with her sell out show. For those unfamiliar with Candace she is the OG Carrie Bradshaw, writer of Sex and The City as well as numerous other New York Times bestsellers. She is now taking to the stage to ask, is there still sex in the city and take us
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Having seen Unfortunate at The Edinburgh Festival 2019 and loving it I was so excited to see how the show had developed in the intervening years and discover what a longer version of the show looked like. As I said in my earlier review Unfortunate does to the Little Mermaid what Wicked did to The Wizard of Oz, just maybe
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My disclaimer at the start is that I am a HUGE panto fan. I genuinely believe it gives many children not only their first visit to the theatre but also for many others their only family theatre trip of the year. Combine that with the tradition of it all and how much panto can make for the arts industry, well
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For the 3rd year in a row I kicked my Christmas off with Jinkx and DeLa and their Holiday Show. Whilst it is still mid November I decided to lean in hard to this and it is fast becoming a tradition for me! Each year their show has a different premise, 2 years ago it was about coming out of
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Lizzie is a rock musical which tells the story of Lizzie Borden. The show focuses on Lizzie, her older sister Emma, her neighbour and love interest Alice and her maid Bridget. In 1892 Lizzie is accused of murdering her father and step-mother…with an axe and overnight she becomes the centre of a media storm and an American killing legend. The
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Calendar Girls tells the true story about a group of ordinary women in a small Yorkshire Women’s Institute and how together they manage to do something extraordinary. Spoiler: Annie loses her husband, John, to leukaemia at a young age so along with her best friend Chris, Annie decides to raise money to purchase a new settee, for the relatives room
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Heathers musical is based on the film of the same name with book, music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy. It tells of 3 friends all called Heather who run Westerberg High School and Veronica Sawyer who is given a chance to become one of them. Along the way it becomes clear that she has to sacrifice her
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Trevor Ashley has hit the Lyric Theatre for their 3rd show in London. For those unfamiliar with Trevor Ashley (like I was at the start of the show) she is a drag Queen who not only will knock your socks off with her banter and story telling but also with her belt. Fresh from her experience filming Queen of the
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Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, A Great Big Broadway show is now on at the Gielgud Theatre. Following success of last years one night concert the show has returned to celebrate the life and works of Stephen Sondheim. For those that have stumbled across this review accidentally let me explain the hype over Stephen Sondheim. A composer and lyricist who was
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Crazy For You is the epitome of a golden age musical style production. In Crazy For You we meet Bobby Childs backstage at the Zangler Follies begging for a role in the show. Instead Bobby is told by his mother to go to Deadrock to foreclose on a run down theatre. In true musical theatre style things don’t go according
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