Author JohnnyFox

There’s only a handful of musical theatre royalty whose reputation so precedes them, particularly from New York to London, that they can guarantee to put a bum on every seat every night. Bette Midler, of...

I had high hopes for this first-full-London-staging-in-50-years production of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying whose 2011 Broadway revival was a surprise hit for Daniel Radcliffe as the...

The ultimate ‘backstage musical’ 42nd Street lifted America from the depression, and its timely arrival at Drury Lane in such majestic style is still an evening of total escapism, total delight as you...

Two thoroughly nice chaps you’d safely take home to mother. Two Cambridge choral scholars and occasionally camp satirists at pains to remind you they’re heterosexual. One a bit shorter and blonder, one a...

In The Life, drug-dealing Guys and rent-by-the-hour Dolls walk a side of 42nd Street far shadier than the tapdancing one at Drury Lane. The daily grit and the nightly grind are underpinned with a spectacularly...

Hyperbole is a wonderful thing – Edinburgh’s gutters run with it. According to the PR, Adam & Eve and Steve comes from a “sellout season in Los Angeles” – actually a four and a half week run...

An American signage manufacturer stumbles through hilarious mistranslations and the fog of understanding to win a contract and possibly the heart of a crisp and wanton female politician. Chinglish is a slick...

I am named after a Tommy.  My great uncle Private John Warburton of the Lancashire Fusiliers who lied about his age to join up in 1914 as a bugler, later a stretcher-bearer killed on the Somme 23 May...

I am in love. This is ‘the one’. I have been waiting years for a musical of this quality, of this range of imagination and musical excellence, and of this sheer unadulterated beauty to arrive in London....

The first thing to say about the tour of La Cage Aux Folles is it has to be Bill Kenwright’s most generous production to date: no expense has been spared in beautifully detailed sets – some stunning...