The Nutcracker is the first ballet that I ever saw when I was around 5 years old as a Christmas treat with my mum. Many many years on I was delighted to revisit the show but to see Matthew Bourne’s take on it. Matthew Bourne has put his own spin on the show and the initial scenes are set in
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Tap Dogs at The Peacock. Tap Dogs isn’t your typical dance or tap show. It focuses on a group of male dancers, dressed in jeans that tap their own unique way across the Peacock stage. Their tap style is unlike any other you will see and due to this there is no opportunity for the audience to get bored. The
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Top Hat at the Orchard Theatre The musical Top Hat is based on the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film. It tells the story of Jerry Travers, a star on Broadway that comes to London to perform in a West End show. During his stay at a hotel his late night tap dancing disturbs the guest below him, Dale
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Dirty Dancing at the Orchard Theatre Dirty Dancing is unashamedly one of my favourite movies and I have seen both the previous West End production and tour, both of which I enjoyed immensely. It therefore had a lot to live up to but I needn’t have worried. For those of you that don’t know the story of Dirty Dancing (does
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The Tap Dogs Are Back In Town Since their debut back in 2010, Dein Perry’s Tap Dogs has toured some of the world’s biggest cities, including Cape Town, Johannesburg and Shanghai, and this October, they will be returning to London in a limited run at The Peacock Theatre, Saddlers Wells. As a tap dancing fanatic, Adam Garcia has always been
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Swan Lake by The St Petersburg Ballet Last night I had the pleasure of attending the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s production of Swan Lake at the London Coliseum. Originally composed by Tchaikovsky and later revised by Lev Ivanov with choreography by Marius Petipa. Swan Lake is a ballet from which most everyone would recognise the main theme and has had
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At the Ballet…..Giselle Before I start let me make it clear from the start I do not profess to be a ballet expert nor someone that attends the ballet regularly so this review is written from the point of view of a regular theatre attendee and about the experience rather than the technical proficiency of the dancers. This production of
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2015 has been a busy year for Musical Theatre Musings. It saw the start of this blog to at some points reviewing 3/4 shows a week for this blog and other publications. In total I saw 50 shows. 2015 also saw my first outing with the lovely #LDNTheatreBloggers to see Balla Brazil after chatting to many on them on twitter for
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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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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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