Pretty Woman the musical has hit Wimbledon following a 2 year run in the West End which I saw twice and loved both times. The musical follows the film pretty faithfully and tells of Vivian who is a prostitute working in Hollywood. She bumps into billionaire Edward Lewis and her interest in classic cars and ability to strike a deal
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I Should Be So Lucky is the Stock Aitken Waterman musical and for those that may not have heard of Stock Aitken Waterman I guarantee that you would have heard of their music. They penned hits including ‘Especially For You,’ ‘Never Going To Give You Up,’ ‘I Should Be So Lucky,’ and produced even more including ‘You Spin Me Right
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My disclaimer at the start is that I am a HUGE panto fan. I genuinely believe it gives many children not only their first visit to the theatre but also for many others their only family theatre trip of the year. Combine that with the tradition of it all and how much panto can make for the arts industry, well
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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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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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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory The Musical opened on the West End in 2013 and ran for 3.5 years but it has taken until now for the show to tour the UK. The show is based on the Roald Dahl book which tells of Charlie Bucket who spends their day dreaming up new inventions and new ways to use junk
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a play firmly based in the fantasy world which tells of a thrilling adventure of Boy who forms an friendship with his neighbours on Hempstock farm, in particular Lettie. Boy soon learns that all is not what it seems and that darkness is trying to worm its way in and together
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Following a successful run at both the Old Vic and Noel Coward theatre, Conor McPherson’s show, the Girl From The North Country is now on tour around the UK. The show, set in the 1930’s follows a family that run a guesthouse in Minnesota. Struggling, not only with the Great Depression but with illness, race and unplanned pregnancies, Nick Laine,
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For those of you interested in this show the plot line needs very little introduction due to being based on the film of the same name. For those that don’t know the film, the show follows star singer Rachel Marron who receives some threatening letters from a stalker and her management team bring in a personal bodyguard, Frank Farmer, to
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The King and I is a classic musical that I feel like all musical theatre nerds watched in their childhood, not me. I have managed to get to my 3*cough* years of age and managed to get through life never seeing the film or stage show. Luckily with its tour stopping at New Wimbledon Theatre I managed to put this
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