Bare Bare is a rock musical set in a private Catholic Boarding school. It follows two boys, Peter and Jason however Jason is the school’s golden boy and refuses to tell anyone of their relationship. A spanner gets thrown in the works when Ivy decides to go after Jason and sets a downward spiral in motion amongst them all. It
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All Shook Up All Shook Up is a jukebox musical with Elvis Presley music. Based on Shakespeare’s 12th Night the show opens with our lead character, Chad being released from prison and heading towards a nearby small town where things such as ‘public necking’ is banned. Chad’s arrival sees the beginning of several cases of unwanted love, including Natalie who
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Liz What the blurb says about Liz: In a Tudor world, Liz – young, sassy, supposed virgin and the Queen of England – cannot stand the drawbacks of sitting on the throne as a woman; her overbearing councillors ignore her forward-thinking policies and constantly attempt to marry her off to boring and unappealing suitors. However, when she finally takes decisions into
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My Left/Right Foot – The Musical. As the blurb says, My Left/Right Foot tells of the local am-dram society who is under pressure to comply with the equalities agenda. They come up with a cunning plan to create a gripping show starring ‘the disabled’. What could be better than the Oscar-winning ‘My Left Foot’? The only snag is they’re having
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Bring It On at Southwark Playhouse Bring It On The Musical is based on the film of the same name. By Lin -Manuel Miranda (music and lyrics) of Hamilton fame, Tom Kitt (music), Jeff Whitney (original story) and Amanda Green (lyrics). It tells of Campbell, the captain of the cheerleading squad at Truman High School. However her dream is soon
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A Little Princess by NYMT NYMT’s latest production is based on the book, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Those that adore the book and the film be warned there are some changes to the beloved story although this did not detract at all from my enjoyment of the musical. In this production of A Little Princess we meet
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Around the World in 80 days at The Union Theatre. The Union Theatre is an intimate setting for “Around the world in 80 days” which worked perfectly for this production. The 60 seat theatre was sold out for this production but the seating was well spaced and comfortable, if not a little worn in some places. The open stage gave
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Made in Dagenham by Quay Players As many of my readers know I love supporting am dram and I not only love returning to societies time and time again to see how they face a challenge of a new show and how they have grown but I also love seeing societies work that I haven’t seen before. The latter was
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Madagascar The Musical at New Wimbledon Theatre Madagascar The Musical opened with a bang last night at New Wimbledon Theatre. Based on the DreamWorks 2005 movie it is the newest family musical to hit the stage. The show tells of Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo. A group of friends who, at the
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Madagascar Press Launch Of course, everyone will be familiar with the fun-loving film Madagascar. I was excited to have been given the opportunity by Sarah of going to the press launch day of the musical adaptation. The show will begin its tour at the New Wimbledon Theatre from July 21st starring 2016 X Factor winner, Matt Terry as Alex the
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