Category: Musicals

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Open Air Theatre Theatre

Not-a-re-review: Jesus Christ Superstar, Open Air Theatre

Hadn’t planned to revisit Jesus Christ Superstar but stepped at the last minute for an ailing friend……

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Salad Days (2013 Live London Cast Recording)

  “Oh yes it’s not that I want to stay.  It’s just that I don’t want to…

Posted in Cast Recordings Howard Goodall Music Musicals

Album Review: The Hired Man (2007 UK Tour Cast)

  “Hear our thrilling and willing awakening” It is no secret that Howard Goodall’s score for The Hired…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Before After (2016 Studio Cast Recording)

  “What’s a few more minutes to wait…a little longer”   Confession time – I’ve had this…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Comrade Rockstar (2017 Studio Cast Recording)

  “Just call me the Soviet cowboy” Try as I might, the words ‘rock musical’ can’t help…

Posted in Cast Recordings Jason Robert Brown Music Musicals

Album Review: The Bridges of Madison County (2014 Original Broadway Cast Recording)

  “I can’t tell you I know what the future will be. Who knows anything?” Though often…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: The Last Ship (2014 Original Broadway Cast Recording)

  “For what are we men without a ship to complete?” The logic of theatre being what…

Posted in Albums Cabaret Kander + Ebb LGBTQ+ Music Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs – Live at the Cafe Carlyle (2015)

“How could I behave as if we’d never met?”  Recorded just after he completed his 2014/5 return…

Posted in Albums Andrew Lloyd Webber Music Stephen Schwartz

Album Review: Shona White – I’ll Bring You A Song (2011)

“It is nothing to do with the wine Or the music that’s flooding my mind” Shona White…