Musicals

The trouble with touring American musicals is … well, where do you start? First of all they have to be de-skilled from the Broadway originals so that an associate director and a lower-cost cast can...

The unique selling feature of a $200-a-ticket Broadway musical which sets it apart from our home made West End ones is often a vast stage filled with forty hoofers and a dozen ginormous sets. What makes Dear...

Side by Side, Sondheim on Sondheim, A Spoonful of Sherman, a Shovelful of … Schwartz, Songs from the Shows, a somewhat unenchanted evening with <insert name here> – may the gods preserve us from...

Fearing ‘yet another’ one-woman show about Judy Garland, I almost missed out on Songs for Nobodies, but three things conspired to make it rather special. First, the actress in the role, ‘world famous...

It’s always a buzz when London gets a new theatre space. Now, diagonally opposite across Leicester Square there are two, each coincidentally producing an actor-musician wartime show. One is amazing, the...

A thousand years ago – oh dear, I went for my 25th birthday – there was Side by Side by Sondheim, a revue made from thirty songs extracted from the then impressive canon of Stephen Sondheim including eight...

There are a few things you just can’t say about musical theatre without inviting the opprobrium of a fan base – ‘Elaine Paige isn’t a very versatile singer’ might be one, ‘not many Prince...

It’s a good idea to make a play about the origin of the house of Mayer Rothschild confined in the Judengasse quarter of Frankfurt before the Napoleonic Wars, and their bravery and cunning in raising a global...

Following critical and commercial success with last year’s Cinderella, QDOS Entertainment have again invested millions to make Dick Whittington the biggest, boldest and glitziest pantomime on the London...

Well, first of all Cameron, I love what you've done with the place. The seats are comfortable and the decor is a delicious Viennese sweep through Frank Matcham's gilt and plush retaining tradition but with a...