Category: Musicals

Posted in Albums Music Scott Alan

Album Review: Scott Alan – Dreaming Wide Awake

  “I have fought, I have cried. I’ve been broke, I’ve been bruised. Yet at the end…

Posted in Musicals Open Air Theatre Theatre

Review: Crazy for You, Open Air Theatre

“Dancing makes my troubles all seem tiny” There’s no hiding the fact that the Open Air Theatre’s…

Posted in Howard Goodall Musicals Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2011

Review: The Hired Man, Landor Theatre

“No greater pleasure than work done well” The Hired Man was Howard Goodall’s first musical, setting Melvyn…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Jason Robert Brown Kander + Ebb Maury Yeston Music Musicals Stephen Schwartz Stephen Sondheim William Finn

Album Review: John Owen-Jones – John Owen-Jones

  “And if that’s what you believe you need, you’re wrong…you don’t need much” I was a…

Posted in Jermyn Street Theatre Musicals Theatre

Review: Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Jermyn Street Theatre

“Ev’ry Sunday afternoon we’ll be polite” Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered is a musical revue, celebrating of the…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Musicals Not-London Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2011 UK

Review: Singin’ in the Rain, Chichester Festival Theatre

“Be a clown, be a clown, the whole world loves a clown” I’m often asked what my…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: Betwixt, Trafalgar Studios 2

“Is there a market for adult fairytales?” It is often said that musicals are not written but…

Posted in Albums Music Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Julie Atherton – No Space for Air

  “If I opened my heart, there’d be no space for air” Given that, as regular readers…

Posted in Manchester International Festival Musicals Not-London Theatre UK

Review: The Day We Sang – Opera House, Manchester

“I’ll never have a box of sex tricks Or be made to hum like a Scalextric” It’s…