The King and I is a classic musical that I feel like all musical theatre nerds watched in their childhood, not me. I have managed to get to my 3*cough* years of age and managed to get through life never seeing the film or stage show. Luckily with its tour stopping at New Wimbledon Theatre I managed to put this
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The Money isn’t your typical trip to the theatre, in fact many would struggle to call it theatre at all. The premise is that you either watch the action unfold as a silent witness or you are a player. The players are presented with a pot of money and hour to decide how to spend it. The catch is that
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Curtains is billed as a musical whodunnit and is by Kander and Ebb, the writers of Cabaret and Chicago. To me this sounded like a match made in musical theatre heaven so I could’t wait to see this tour. The show opens with a murder of a theatre companies leading lady on opening night of ‘Robbin’ Hood of The Old
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So much more than a jukebox musical, Beautiful tells the story of prolific singer-songwriter Carole King, setting her early life and career against a soundtrack of classic pop songs from the 50s through to the early 70s – all written by King and Gerry Goffin and their contemporaries, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. A reluctant star, King is portrayed as
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Death of A Salesman is one of those plays that I feel that I really ought to have seen by now, especially when the rave reviews came out from this productions earlier iteration at the Old Vic. Death of A Salesman focuses on the Loman family, Willy and Linda Loman and their 2 sons, Biff and Happy. Whist Willy and
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Bad Girls – the Musical is based on the ITV Drama of the same name. It follows the story of 8 female prison inmates and their journey for freedom, justice and fair treatment in the prison. It is a fun filled show with serious themes running through it. This revival of the show is by produced by new to the
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I was so excited to see Rock of Ages. I’ve actually performed in an amateur production myself but I had never seen the show live so I was keen to see what it was like when I was the other side of the footlights. The plot of Rock of Ages is wafer thin but this doesn’t matter one iota. The
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Avenue Q is a musical like no other. Muppets but for adults is possibly the best way to describe it. We meet Princeton who is new to Avenue Q and is determined to find his purpose in life. Amongst his neighbours are Kate Monster who falls for Princeton, Brian and Christmas Eve, a couple who are struggling with their respective
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26 Leake Street Gallery – Thursday 8 February It hardly seems possible that it is 25 years since Nelson Mandela’s autobiography “A Long Walk To Freedom” was first published. The abomination that was apartheid may be no more than a vague concept to younger generations. But while major events and atrocities may have hit the headlines in this country, the
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Fellow Blogger Rochelle Bisson at A Musical Muppet won the Book of Mormon lottery and she kindly took me along to the Prince of Wales Theatre with her. This is the second time I have seen Book of Mormon and this time was from Row A so I got to get up close and personal with the cast. For those of
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