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 […]
Oscar Wilde once said that: “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” In the case of the musical City of Angels though, I think it’s a little of both. Hollywood comes a callin’ for Stine, an author who dreams of adapting his novel for the big screen; a novel which features a dashing […]
‘Everybody has one great lost love. They broke our hearts, they haunt our dreams, and we will never, ever forget them. But what if fate gave you another chance? Do you think you’d get things right the second time around?’ This is the premise of Stuart Matthew Price’s new musical Before After, which I had […]
Saturday 27th August 2011. I’m sitting outside the Stage Door of Queen’s Theatre after experiencing Les Miserables for the first time. It was mind blowing, and I remember being particularly impressed by the gentleman who was playing Javert at the time, a gentleman named Hadley Fraser. As he walked by, I came over shy and […]
Last weekend saw me make my first visit to London of the new year, and a third visit to the wonderful St James Theatre to catch two of my favourite kind of show… a Hadley Fraser gig. I’d last seen Hadley being all Shakespearean and badass as Aufidius in Josie Rourke’s MAGNIFICENT production of Coriolanus […]
Coriolanus is probably one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, and this literary nerd’s favourite of his canon of work. It’s a play about power, politics and more importantly, the relationships we have and how they can shape our identity. It tells of a Rome in chaos from famine, with the citizens rioting in anger against […]
If you had told me a few months ago that I would be seeing a play inspired by the events of 1997 when Grandmaster and World Champion Garry Kasparov took on IBM and Deep Blue, the computer designed by Feng- Hsiung Hsu and Murray Campbell in a six game chess match that took the internet […]
This review must begin with a HUGE thanks to my friend Sylvia, without whom I wouldn’t have managed to see this show 😀 Lyrics from ‘Once A Year Day’ in The Pajama Game say that for One Day in the year: ‘Everyone’s entitled to be wild, Be a child, Be a Goof, Raise The Roof!’ […]
So now I’ve sadly come back down to earth, I thought it was about time I filled y’all in the immense Saturday I had with many of my friends and four phenomenally talented and wonderfully lovely people in my favourite city in the world. I was joined by my good friend Kristine, and seeing that […]
So this Sunday just gone was as close to my idea of perfection as I think it’s possible to get, all thanks to a combination of three things: being in my favourite city in the world, with a good majority of my fantastic friends all to see an extremely gifted artist and pure all round […]
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