We all want the fairy tale. Millions of people enter the National Lottery every week in the hope of achieving their own happily ever after. However, fairy tales do not come true in real life, do they? Unlikely, but there is no harm in hoping. And for a story where magic happens, you can do a lot worse than pop to the Piccadilly Theatre where Pretty Woman has taken up residence. On Hollywood Boulevard, everyone has a dream, and tonight Vivian Ward (Aimie Atkinson) and her roommate Kit de Luca … [Read more...]
London Musical Reviews for West End and Off West End
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Six: ‘something about the feistiness, the sassiness, the riotousness of it all’
There’s a good mix of musical styles amongst the ten musical numbers, though most of the melodies are firmly in the style of what I call ‘minicab music’ – the sort of chart music tunes I would only listen to if I were being driven home and the driver just so happened to have the radio on. But there’s something about the feistiness, the sassiness, the riotousness of it all. I liked the music so much I bought the cast recording on the way out. It only leaves me to wish Six a long and glorious reign.
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The Prince Of Egypt at the Dominion Theatre | Review
The Prince of Egypt isn’t the first time Stephen Schwartz has taken biblical passages and put them into a musical - the Off-Broadway premiere of Godspell took place in 1971. Twenty years later came Children of Eden, about the events in the Book of Genesis. This one takes in sections of the Book of Exodus. The narrative in this musical begins with Moses (Luke Brady, who does his best with what he’s given), put into a basket as an infant in the River Nile by Yocheved (Mercedesz Csampai). This was … [Read more...]
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical) at the Bridewell Theatre | Review
This is, as a fellow theatregoer pointed out to me afterwards, a tad too complicated for an orchestra, with forty or so musical numbers in various styles to get through, as well as sections of spoken dialogue, in around eighty-five minutes. The cast of six are therefore supported in this production of The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) by musical director Natalie Pound, without further accompaniment. It’s an impressive achievement, really, given the sheer variety of music in this parody … [Read more...]
ON YOUR FEET! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan
The second half is better than the first in On Your Feet! A New Musical (to give it its full title) - which makes perfect sense given the chronological order of the storyline, starting with Gloria Estefan (Philippa Stefani) before she was even discovered by Emilio (George Ioannides) whilst still living at home in Miami, Florida - her family having left Havana to escape the worst effects of the Cuban Revolution. Naturally, when the Miami Sound Machine, the Latin music band founded by Emilio, had … [Read more...]
Cabaret at New Wimbledon Theatre | Review
Bill Kenwright’s production of Kander & Ebb’s classic musical Cabaret is back on tour just two years after it played at various theatres around the country with Will Young as the Emcee and Louise Redknapp as Sally Bowles. This time they’re replaced respectively by John Partridge and Kara Lily Hayworth and a completely new cast. However, everything else stays the same including direction from Rupert Norris and choreography by Javier De Frutos. The background for the 1966 multiple Tony … [Read more...]