Category: Musicals

Posted in Cast Recordings Jonathan Harvey LGBTQ+ Music Musicals

Album Review: Closer to Heaven (Original Cast Recording)

  “Give me hope Give me all your love”  Everything is better with Frances Barber in it,…

Posted in Cast Recordings Jason Robert Brown Music Theatre

Album Review: Songs for a New World (1996 Original Cast)

  “I’ll give you hope to bring out all the life inside you ” Haven’t got a…

Posted in Cast Recordings Jason Robert Brown Music

Album Review: Parade (Original London Cast 2007)

  “Call for justice! We need justice! Beat the bastard! Kill the bum!” Based on historical events…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Cast Recordings Music

Album Review: The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

  “We had such hopes…” To celebrate its 25th anniversary, The Phantom of the Opera decamped to…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Cast Recordings Music

Album Review: The Phantom of the Opera (Highlights from the Original Canadian Cast)

  “Our passion-play has now at last begun” Despite being a London institution these days, I haven’t…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Gypsy (2015 London Cast Recording)

  “I had a dream, a wonderful dream” From the moment Imelda Staunton shook the very foundations…

Posted in Broadway Cast Recordings Music Musicals Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Gypsy (2008 Broadway Cast Recording)

  “Here she is boys…here she is world!”  Listening to the 2008 Broadway Cast Recording of Gypsy…

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Album Review: Made in Dagenham (Original London Cast Recording 2015)

  “And still we’re only dreaming for change, change, change…” Any semi-regular reader will know the love…

Posted in Jason Robert Brown Musicals The Other Palace Theatre

Review: Songs for a New World, St James Theatre

“I saw you look at Blitzen long and lovingly  The way you used to look at me”…