Sasha Regan’s All-Male Mikado: Wilton’s Music Hall
This classic G&S Operetta, the Mikado, not only fields an all-male cast, but has been transported to a 1950s private boys’ school camping trip: an inspired idea to ramp up the comedy to the max, even if there was a little ‘modified rapture’ in places. Except for retaining the name of the town of Titipu […]
Betty Blue Eyes at The Union Theatre
Families finding it difficult to put a decent meal on the table, town councillors lining their own pockets and an imminent Royal Occasion could indicate Britain today, but this is in fact the post-war Britain of 1947 magically conjured to life in the production of Betty Blue Eyes at the Union Theatre. The war has […]
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at Theatre Royal, Brighton.
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice premiered at the Royal National Theatre, garnering winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy in 1992 and the Olivier Award for Best Comedy 1993. This Cinderella-esque story centres on the reclusive young woman LV (Little Voice) who lives her life in her bedroom, listening to and singing […]
Graceland at 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
A Celebration of Paul Simon’s Graceland live at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. In 1984 Paul Simon became so fascinated by a bootleg cassette of South African township music that he travelled to Johannesburg and spent two weeks recording with South African musicians. This recording session formed the basis of his seventh and most commercially successful […]
Anything Goes by NYMT
I’ve been a fan of NYMT since stumbling across their production of Bugsy Malone in 1997, so I was thrilled to be able to review one of their annual London productions for Musical Theatre Musings. Anything Goes is a 1934 musical, set aboard the ocean liner S.S. American, en route from New York to England. […]