Tag: Jeremy Batt

Posted in Cast Recordings Cyndi Lauper LGBTQ+ Music Musicals

Album Review: Kinky Boots (Original West End Cast Recording)

  “I am freedom, I’m constriction A potpourri of contradiction” With rather serendipitous timing, the West End…

Posted in Albums Broadway Cast Recordings Curtain Up Show Album of the Year Cyndi Lauper Lin-Manuel Miranda Music Musicals Not-London Sara Bareilles Theatre awards

The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2016 winners

Best UK Cast Recording American Psycho – Original London Cast Recording Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined –…

Posted in Cyndi Lauper LGBTQ+ Musicals Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2015 West End

Re-review: Kinky Boots, Adelphi Theatre

  “Funk it up till it’s ostentatious Dress it up, it feels contagious” Now extended through to…

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Review: Kinky Boots, Adelphi Theatre

  “Drag queens are mainstream. Just this morning I was offered a gig singing at a nursing…

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Album Review: The West End goes MAD for Christmas

“I don’t need to ask for much this Christmas” One of the more worthwhile festive releases this…

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Review: Candide, Menier Chocolate Factory

“Come and dwell where Satan’s hoof has never trod” Leonard Bernstein’s take on Voltaire’s philosophical attire has…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Top Hat, Aldwych Theatre

“You’ll declare it’s simply topping to be there” On the face of it, Top Hat should have…

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Shows I am looking forward to in 2012

Though the temptation is strong, and the actuality may well prove so, I don’t think I will…

Posted in Musicals Stephen Schwartz Theatre Union Theatre

Review: Godspell, Union Theatre

“C’mere Jesus, I got something to show ya” Godspell occupies a strange place in my personal history…