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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There is a huge amount to see on the West End at the moment and with some shows closing soon and others extending here is my guide as to the hot tickets in town and which ones make my MUST SEE list. Guys and Dolls Whilst Guys & Dolls has extended into next year if you haven’t see this yet
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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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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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The downside of reviewing any production is that it is extremely difficult to sit back and enjoy the performance for what it is. Notes made contemporaneously (not necessarily legible in the clear light of day) or complete reliance on mental notes mean that attention is necessarily divided. A further complication related to amateur productions is the awareness that, by definition,
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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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A Strange Loop is one of those shows that I had heard a lot about yet I knew very little however the overwhelming consensus was that I needed to see it, so despite being rather late for the party I got myself along to the Barbican before the show closed. In A Strange Loop we meet Usher, a black, queer,
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It seems like there were 2 kinds of people at the London Palladium last night, those that have heard of Death Note and its huge following originating in Manga and those like me who wanted to see what Frank Wildhorn and his team had come up with. For those like me who don’t know much about the show or it’s
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The year is 1943 and the Allies are loosing the war. After searching for a plan they gamble it all on a corpse from a unknown person, a suitcase packed full of receipts and a submarine to transport the corpse. Together entitled Montagu, shy but intelligent Charles, ambitious Leslie, the matriarch Leggett, boss Bevan and a whole host of other
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