Musicals

I learned two things at the press night of The Braille Legacy.   One is that guide dogs may snarl at each other when passing – possibly a metaphor for critics and theatre bloggers I don’t have time to...

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...

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...

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...

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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