Category: Musicals

Posted in Live Music Musicals Theatre

Review: Sweet Charity in concert, Cadogan Hall

“You’re a blockbuster buster” It’s been five years since the Menier’s glorious revival of Sweet Charity so…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Sinatra – The Man and His Music, Palladium

“I’m feeling so bad Won’t you make the music easy and sad” Traditional theatre shows seem to…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Pasek + Paul

Album Review: James and the Giant Peach (World Premiere Cast)

  “Have you even begun to wonder?” In an act of great generosity and canny marketing, an…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Sex and the Village

  “It’s more village, less sex if I’m honest” Set in the tiny Dibley-like hamlet of Chatterly…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Lend Me A Tenor (Original London Cast Recording)

“Life is like opera, it’s hard to keep the drama from seeping through” The West End is…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Pal Joey (Highlights from Original 1980 London Cast)

  “I’ll plant you now, dig you later” Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey hasn’t had a…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Desperately Seeking Susan (London Cast)

“One way or another I’m gonna lose ya” There’s something perverse about wanting to have been there…

Posted in Broadway Cast Recordings LGBTQ+ Music Musicals Not-London

Album Review: If/Then (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

  “I know all the odds and even so…”  One of the temptations with cast recordings, and…

Posted in Cast Recordings Laurence O'Keefe Music Musicals

Album Review: Legally Blonde (2010 Original London Cast)

  “You must admit that Elle Woods should join the chosen few” Part of the fun of…