Tag: John Stacey

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 Musicals Theatre

Review: Barnum, New Wimbledon

“If I present an educated pooch Who’s trained to dance the hoochie cooch What better way to…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Stephen Ward The Musical, Aldwych Theatre

“Manipulation, that’s the technique,  This conversation must not leak”  It’s a curious thing, to take a relatively…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Theatre West End

Preview: Stephen Ward The Musical

“I invented a new way of lie, some might call it unconventional, All that stuffy post-war Englishness,…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Musicals Not-London Theatre UK

Review: The Pajama Game, Minerva

“Just knock three times and whisper low, that you and I were sent by Joe” Old Broadway…

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…

Posted in Almeida Theatre August Strindberg Barbican Theatre Federico García Lorca fosterIANs Gilbert and Sullivan Ivor Novello John Webster Martin Crimp Musicals Not-London Old Vic Theatre Union Theatre West End

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 Cast Recordings Music Theatre

Album Review: My Fair Lady Original 2001 London Cast

  “An average man am I, of no eccentric whim” Unless you can’t buying all sorts of…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Lend Me A Tenor, Gielgud Theatre

“Anna 1, Anna 2, Anna 3” For the second time in three days, I deliberately went to…