For those of you not sure who The Overtones are they can best be described as a UK male vocal harmony group who released their 6th studio album in October. They are made up of Lachie Chapman, Mark Franks, Mike Crawshaw and Darren Everest. The Overtones certainty know how to appeal to their fans and the audience were treated to everything
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Howard Goodall’s Girlfriends In Concert by LMTO Girlfriends is a musical by Howard Goodall that is rarely performed. Written in 1985 it tells of the women on the WAAF, the Women’s Auxiliary Airforce. It focuses on a group of 5 women including best friends Lou and Amy who both fall for the same pilot Guy. It is a show about
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Camelot by LMTO at the London Palladium Camelot is one of those musicals I’ve always heard mentioned but I’ve never seen it or really heard any music from it. I was therefore delighted to be given a chance to discover it with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra (LMTO) and a stellar line up of soloists at the London Palladium. Camelot
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A Trip Across The Universe at the Bob Hope Theatre A Trip Across The Universe is the brainchild of Stuart James, inspired by movie-musical Across The Universe. James has created a Beatles concert with a cast of 19. They perform a huge range of songs from to the universally know Beatles numbers such as ‘All You Need Is Love,’ and
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When I Grow Up – A Cabaret for the NSPCC When I Grow Up is a one night cabaret put on at Toulouse Lautrec in order to raise money for the NSPCC. It focused on songs from the musicals which revolved around childhood, sibling relationships, dating, parenthood and more. Organised and put together by Kate Vlietstra the song choices were unusual and
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2017 Roundup – Best West End Musical….Hamilton There has been an insane amount of hype surrounding Hamilton and I was afraid it wouldn’t live up to it’s hype however I needn’t have worried and if I was able to give it 6 stars I would have. I was lucky enough to have secured tickets during previews and following seeing it
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Let It Be I have heard so much about ‘Let It Be’ but have never got round to seeing it, that was until Monday 25th January where I went to see it at the Churchill Theatre. Let It Be describes itself as ‘a celebration of the music of the Beatles’ which is essentially a Beatles tribute concert. There is no
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So the night of the big Kerry Ellis and Louise Dearman concert is fast approaching! They hit the stage of the Prince Edward on Sunday the 27th September and I’m mega excited about it. I’ve been a massive fan of Kerry’s since I saw her as Meat in We Will Rock you and later as Elphaba in Wicked. I was
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Kerry Ellis & Louise Dearman have announced a one night concert on the 27th September at the Prince Edward theatre. At the announcement this morning they advised they had known each other since they were 15 and attended a summer school together, despite this long history the 2 west end stars have never sung professionally together and have decided to
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