Love Island’s Amber Davies hits back at online hater for suggesting she is “not a real West End performer”
Last week, 9 To 5 the Musical performer Rhiane Drummond tweeted about how she was the Understudy to Love Island’s Amber Davies and the first person of colour to perform this role. She said “for two performances on Thursday 21st Feb I played the role of Judy Bernly in the Original West End Cast of 9 […]
REVIEW: THE CLOCKMAKER’S DAUGHTER (Studio Recording) ★★★★★
Back in 2015, I went to see a new musical, The Clockmaker’s Daughter, at the much missed Landor Theatre in London. In my review, I called the show “one of the best off-west end productions around” and so to hear that a studio recording of the show, featuring incredible talents like Ramin Karimloo, Hannah Waddingham, […]
Release your inner queen with a royal sing-long performance of SIX
Fans of SIX, the concert-style hit musical featuring the six wives of Henry VIII as a girl group, are to get the chance to be Queen for a night at the show’s first Sing Along show in the West End on June 6, 2019. SIX has built up a large and enthusiastic fanbase who have […]
Stars come together in THE BEST OF… ROCK MUSICALS to support mental health
On Sunday 12 May 2019 at London’s Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, there will be two concerts of The Best of… Rock Musicals for the benefit of The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust. It will be the 20th Anniversary production from the same team who for the last 19 years have presented The Night of 1000 Voices at […]
Jennifer Saunders to star in Noel Coward’s BLITHE SPIRIT
According to Chortle, Absolutely Fabulous star Jennifer Saunders will star in Noel Coward‘s comedy play Blithe Spirit, opening at the Theatre Royal Bath on 13 June 2019. Jennifer Saunders is set to play clairvoyant Madame Arcati, the kooky medium who is summonsed to the home of a writer to conduct a seance to help get ideas […]
REVIEW: Fame The Musical (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★
Fame is nothing short of a global phenomenon. First appearing as a major motion picture in 1980, it has had continued success as a six-season television series, a musical and a 2009 film remake. Conceived from the unforgettable Academy Award-winning film and subsequent Emmy Award-winning television series, Fame The Musical was significantly rewritten from the […]
Mischief Theatre to create THE GOES WRONG SHOW for six-part BBC series
According to Variety magazine, the BBC have commissioned British Comedy writers Mischief Theatre to create a six-part comedy series, The Gone Wrong Show, to be filmed in front of a live audience and televised. Topics covered are to include courtroom dramas and spy thrillers with disastrous outcomes. Mischief Theatre launched their first play, The Play […]
REVIEW: THE BAND (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★
Not having been a fan of “Take That” I was unsure what to expect with the new “Take That” Musical “The Band” currently running at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking. For me, the main issue throughout the show was the plot or to be more precise the lack of plot. Briefly, five girls bunk […]
REVIEW: HOTEL PARADISO (Jackson Lane) ★★★
Jackson Lane describes itself as the North London Creative Space and circus troupe Lost in Translation Circus regard it as a spiritual home for their narrative driven circus act show. Following the success of their show “Hogwallops”, “Hotel Paradiso” tells loosely of the efforts of the hotel owner and her staff to save the business […]
REVIEW: Agnes Colander: An Attempt At Life (Jermyn Street Theatre) ★★
Harley Granville Barker was a director, designer and producer around the time of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen, as well as an author and wrote Agnes Colander: An attempt at life in 1900. It was revived as a lost masterpiece at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath in spring 2018, under the […]