Over the years, creatives have managed to find material to adapt for the stage from all sorts of places: from folklore; religious texts; to real life scandals and the list goes on. But who would have guessed that Charles Dickens’s unfinished murder mystery novel could be adapted into a boisterous whodunnit musical comedy and that [...]
I hadn’t originally planned on seeing Back to the Future the Musical. I felt lukewarm after watching the 1985 film and so logic would tell me that it would be best to avoid it. However, since this musical’s 2020 run in Manchester I’ve heard nothing but glowing word of mouth reviews and so temptation got [...]
My enduring love and respect for cheerleading dates back to watching the 2000's Bring It On film with Gabrielle Union and Kirsten Dunst. I would endlessly quote from it and lament that my school didn’t have a cheerleading team of its own. The closest I’ve been to experiencing cheer is attending a couple of gymnastics [...]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a stage adaptation of the 1988 film, is an unashamedly silly musical that chucks political correctness out of the window. Just when you think it can’t get more ludicrous, the plot skids and slides into territories that are even more absurd and outrageous. But somehow it’s gloriously good. Set on the French [...]
I was kindly invited to review Jersey Boys for the Evening Standard. You can read the review by clicking the link below. https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/jersey-boys-london-musical-theatre-west-end-b951150.html Photo Credit: PR handout Jersey Boys is running at the Trafalgar Theatre until 2 January 2022 at the time of writing.
Oh, the places I’ve travelled to after entering the Charing Cross Theatre: 1950s Paris with the musical Amour; New York during the turn of the twentieth century with the musical Ragtime; and closer to home, London’s West End on Old Compton Street with the musical Soho Cinders.Now with the venue’s latest revival production of Pippin, [...]
*This review is based on a preview performance of Cinderella. In one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s recent press statements, he described this production of Cinderella as ‘the first world premiere of a new musical in this country since the pandemic’. However, others online correctly noticed that there have indeed been other original musicals mounted on [...]
When you see the advert for ‘Tickle the Musical’ with two half-dressed men front and centre, it’s safe to assume that this won’t be the most child-friendly of shows. The immediate questions which spring to mind are, which direction will a musical about the curious sport of competitive endurance tickling go? And how far will [...]
In a game of Word Association, when asked to describe New York, ordinary is probably the last word to spring to mind. Although this musical is firmly grounded in the bustling city which never sleeps, the material which the musical centres on is, well, ordinary. Here we follow four New Yorkers: a romantic couple; a [...]
Normality is a tuneful new musical comedy about Norman Goodman, a computer and keyboard enthusiast who unexpectedly lands a job in the corporate world. The show, created by Nige Reid and Jules Kleiseris, is currently in development and had its first staging in the downstairs Studio space at the Other Palace. The actors had just ten days [...]
myfairtheatregoer.com 