John & Jen deals with family relationships, from the big sister, Jen, who promises to protect her little brother John to several years later when Jen is now a single mother protecting her son, named in memory of her brother. Whilst John & Jen was written in 1991 it feels as relevant today as it would have 30 years ago.
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When the automated voice played with the usual ‘turn off your phones’ speech, you could feel theexcitement from many, including myself, for whom this was the first time back in the theatrepost-lockdown. But that was little compared to when the same voice concluded their speech with‘Oh…and welcome back to the West End’. The explosion from the crowd was nothing short
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Back in summer 2020 West End Musical Brunch launched West End Musical Drive in and luckily for us it was recorded! The first concert starred Layton Williams, Shan Ako, Maiya Quansah Breed and Shanay Homes. Shanay Homes founded the company itself and as she explained when she opened the show it is a black owned company. This concert also focused
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With Valentines Day just around the corner some of you may be planning a romantic night in! If so here are some ideas for a romantic musical theatre playlist for it! I normally do top 10 but with this category there are so many beautiful songs that I have decided to do Top 20! 1. You Matter to Me –
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Everyone loves a good love story and they are rife in musical theatre. Take this Valentine’s quiz on romantic shows & songs to find out of you are an expert in all things romantic and stagey. If you like this quiz you might also like my quiz on movie musicals, the West end and name the show from the lyrics.
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With Valentines Day nearly upon us I thought it would be fun to find out what some of our most loved performers favourite romantic musical theatre song is: Jodie Steele – Maria (West Side Story) “Tony’s pure fascination just with the sound of her name is dreamy.” Rebecca Locke – One Hand One Heart (West Side Story) “So simple, so
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With so many theatres and productions turning to streaming I thought a list of what is on and when would be useful. National Theatre at Home – Variety of dates and titles. National Theatre at home includes – Dick Whittington – until 22nd February. Julie – on all year. Amadeus – until 30th April Three Sisters – until 30th November
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Public Domain is a new musical by Forristal and Clarke which is currently being Live Streamed from Southwark Playhouse. It looks at the impact of social media and is told entirely in Verbatim, with every word spoken or sung taken from YouTube, real Tweets or Instagram posts. The show follows two very different Vloggers as well as Zuckerberg and his
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With so many of us desperate to get our theatre fix it seems as if the way we ae going to be able to do this is via drive-in theatre. These are the current drive in offerings and I will update these if any more get added to the list: Spice World and West End Stars! On the 1st August,
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With theatre stopped due to the Lockdown it was only a matter of time before these cast videos began cropping up. Some of them are tributes to key workers, others are a fun way of reminding the public of the shows that are out there. I’ve picked out my favourite 10…. 1) Six All of the Queens past and present
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