Musicals

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...

The recently-founded London Musical Theatre Orchestra is a massively welcome addition to the capital’s music and theatre scene. It enables book musicals to experience the richness of orchestration and power...

‘Waiter, have you got frog’s legs?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Well hop over the counter and fetch me a bacon sandwich …’ - is about the only old joke not shorehorned by Nathan Lane into his adaptation of...

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When Chicago premiered in 1975 it shook up its prohibition-era hoodlums and chorus girls with a fizzing cocktail of jazz, booze, sex and Bob Fosse choreography standing what had been the former Broadway image...

Anyone Can Whistle: the Sondheim flop whose signal moment in the original 1964 production was when a dancer fell into the orchestra pit, inadvertently killing the saxophonist. Another actor had a fatal heart...

Are standards slipping at English National Opera? It’s one thing to rent the place out to Michael Grade in a slack period and smile and pretend to be nice when he casts Katherine Jenkins in a leading...

Would we be more 'half in love with easeful Death' if instead of some cadaver in a cowl with a scythe he came at us as a handsome young man?  Can you love someone 'more than life'?  Those are the dilemmas...

Sometimes, however much you like the genre, a musical fails to capture your imagination or engage you in the way it should. So maybe it’s my fault that Kinky Boots comes over as trite, derivative, musically...

It won’t be easy, you’ll think it strange – but Evita in 1978 was the last show co-written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Despite their later separate successes, it remains an often-overlooked...