I should start talking about my experience on Saturday by admitting something: I haven’t read Alice Walker’s 1982 novel The Color Purple, or seen the Spielberg film adaptation from 1985; and so I went in completely fresh to view this new staging of Leicester Curve’s 2019 production. I’m counting myself incredibly lucky that this show […]
Now, I’m on record here and on my podcast staking my claim to Jesus Christ Superstar being my favourite score from Andrew Lloyd Webber, and I will live and die on that hill, but the more I become acquainted with the music and the show, Sunset Boulevard is a very close second. The show first […]
Over the years, Lionel Bart’s adaptation of the Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist is one that has always followed me around. The film musical was among the first I saw, my last outing to see the UK tour at my local theatre the Bristol Hippodrome with Neil Morrissey, Samantha Barks and Iain Fletcher in 2013 inspired me […]
So, I have indulged one of my childhood fantasies- on Thursday I went away to Neverland, courtesy of the brand new musical from Harvey Weinstein and an incredible team of people: Finding Neverland, based on the hit film of the same name. The musical’s current home is the Curve Theatre in Leicester, which I have […]
Wheelie Stagey 