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 [...]
Continue reading...1. January 2010
“…This is a truly eccentric affair but it comes to us laden with Broadway awards. To judge from the way the first-night audience was cheering as at a rock concert from the outset, I suspect it may, like The Lion King, prove triumphant over here for its sheer spectacle… The book by Winnie Holzman, and [...]
Continue reading...1. January 2010
To most of us The Phantom of the Opera is synonymous with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s phenomenally successful operetta. It may then come as a bit of a surprise to learn that Ken Hill’s original 1976 version of Gaston Leroux’s chilling roman à clef, actually spearheaded the way for the Lloyd Webber hit. However, Hill’s Phantom couldn’t [...]
Continue reading...3. December 2009
Excitement and anticipation was in the air as people arrived for Press Night on 1st December 2009 at the Novello Theatre, London for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. One word sums it up – BRAVO! This Tennessee Williams play directed by the talented Debbie Allen and played by an all black cast is full of [...]
Continue reading...8. October 2009
Andrew Lloyd Webber unveils his brand new production “LOVE NEVER DIES” at a global launch in Her Majesty’s Theatre Haymarket, London. Phantom of the Opera celebrates its 23rd birthday tomorrow as it first opened at Her Majesty’s Theatre on 9th October 1986 which starred Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford. Happy Birthday, Phantom! A video was shown [...]
Continue reading...17. September 2009
Oliver the Musical was written by Lionel Bart. It is directed by Rupert Goold & Matthew Bourne and produced by Cameron Mackintosh in association with the Southbrook Group Limited. Cast, crew, stagehands, and management (all concerned) have really done a fabulous job with this musical. The Drury Lane Theatre is a perfect theatre to host [...]
Continue reading...15. September 2009
Stomp, created by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, has been playing at The Ambassadors Theatre on West Street in London since September 2007. Prior to that, it was at the Vaudeville Theatre since September 2002. I always like to talk about what the Theatre is like because it is as important as what shows there. If [...]
Continue reading...3. September 2009
Jersey Boys was written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio and lyrics by Bob Crewe.
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22. February 2010
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