In my last post, you’ll recall that Kinky Boots was the matinee for my November double show day. For my evening, I headed across the street to see Gypsy. Some of you might recall from my previous blogs or if its ever come up in conversation between us that Sondheim is one of my favourite […]
Early November saw me make my first double show day trip to London since my birthday this summer, and unusually for me it was made up of two shows that I hadn’t seen before! The matinee saw me make a visit to the Adelphi for the first time since The Bodyguard to see Kinky Boots. […]
As you may have been aware if you follow my theatrical musings on here or Twitter (@kerrien_270811 just in case you’d like to follow me, by the way), August was a particularly special month for me in terms of stagey shenanigans. I had the honour of seeing one of my favourite actors in an […]
Most of us musical theatre fans can pinpoint the moment we fell in love with the genre. Personally, that moment came when my grandparents introduced me to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, the 1954 film musical starring Howard Keel and Jane Powell. I was entranced by everything about it, I loved the score, the songs […]
Shakespeare has been a valuable part of my life since my secondary school days; I was always fascinated by the language and the depth of the characters and found myself the odd one out in the vast majority of my classmates at the time who weren’t as taken with it as I was. Though I […]
I’m a relative newcomer to the idea of musicals in concert form, but I think they’re a fabulous idea to allow audiences to be introduced to shows and scores that are perhaps less widely known. This was the case for my second ‘musical in concert’ outing (the first being Sondheim’s A Little Night Music back […]
When it comes to my taste in music, I often wish I hadn’t been born in the nineties; most of my favourite music comes from the sixties, seventies and eighties, and I’m not overly fond of much of today’s ‘popular’ music. In fact, many of the artists I admire today come from the world of […]
Every so often, performers come into my life that I think are so talented and brilliant I’m ashamed I haven’t discovered them sooner. Alex Gaumond is one such performer; my first opportunity to see him live came in March of last year with a trip to Matilda where he played Trunchbull, and later that same […]
Given that I’m incredibly privileged in my theatregoing, it’s not very often I get a crippling case of ‘audience envy’ as severe as I have done in the months I had to endure leading up to seeing the musical Memphis. Myself and my dad had tried on numerous different occasions, failed and when my good […]
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. Since I was first introduced to the idea of NT: Live a few years back with an encore screening of Danny Boyle’s awesome Frankenstein, I’d hoped that one day I’d be able to be in […]
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