All My Sons – the first great success of Arthur Miller’s supremely influential career – is a compelling story of love, guilt and the corrupting power of greed. Joe Keller (David Suchet) is alleged to have supplied World War II fighter planes with defective engines, leading to the deaths of innocent pilots – a crime [...]
Continue reading...14. May 2010
Sweet Charity follows the misadventures of love encountered by the gullible and guileless Charity Hope Valentine, a woman who always gives her heart and her dreams to the wrong man. Cy Coleman’s score features favourite hits such as Hey, Big Spender; If My Friends Could See Me Now and The Rhythm of Life. Sweet Charity [...]
Continue reading...17. April 2010
Grumpy Old Women Live 2 has moved to the West End. It’s playing at the majestic Novello Theatre until 5th June 2010. What better way to spend an evening (or afternoon) than sitting in a beautifully decorated room in comfortable, luxurious-looking seats having three very funny ladies keep you entertained! Grumpy Old Women Jenny Eclair, [...]
Continue reading...15. April 2010
HAIR is about a group of young people in New York City’s East Village who band together as a TRIBE. They are a New York contingent of flower children, (a freeform phenomenon that had begun a little earlier in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco and would subsequently spread to Europe & elsewhere). Taking on the feel of [...]
Continue reading...8. April 2010
What is Mrs Warren’s profession? Her daughter Vivie has never really known much about her mother. A prim young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education and a generous monthly allowance. Now she has ambitions to go into Law. Is it conceivablethat all this privilege and respectability has been financed from the [...]
Continue reading...24. March 2010
The music and lyrics of Avenue Q were created by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. It originally opened off-Broadway then transferred to Broadway in 2003, crossing the Atlantic in 2006 to entertain UK audiences where it thankfully continues now into its 5th year. It resided at the Noël Coward Theatre, the Gielgud Theatre, and recently [...]
Continue reading...10. March 2010
With the official opening night of Love Never Dies having taken place last night, 9 March 2010, it is what everyone is talking about. There are mixed reviews of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s newest show some finding it weak in plot and perhaps a bit gloomy but one certainly can’t fault the music, the effort of the actors, [...]
Continue reading...22. February 2010
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies opened on Monday, 22 February 2010 at London’s Adelphi Theatre to a packed house full of excited theatregoers and Andrew Lloyd Webber himself. The audience was all a buzz with anticipation. It seems that a lot of time had passed since this new show was announced formally at the [...]
Continue reading...31. January 2010
Legally Blonde The Musical playing at London’s Savoy Theatre is full of fun from start to finish! Just from sitting in the spacious Stalls before the show looking at the screen on stage with silk look material as a backdrop for the silver bracelet laid in the shape of a heart with a heart shape [...]
Continue reading...31. January 2010
An Inspector Calls was written by J B Priestley in 1945 with it’s first debut in 1946. It has had a long, successful history over the years and is currently playing at Wyndham’s Theatre. It is a very popular, well-known thriller that has won numerous awards and it is easy to see why. It grabs [...]
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23. June 2010
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