The Boy Friend (Menier Chocolate Factory) JohnnyFox December 5, 2019 Musicals, Reviews When I want to get a PhD in theatre, moderated perhaps by some easily-triggered onanist Professor from the University of the Balls Pond Road, I’m...
The Glenn Miller Story (Coliseum/tour) JohnnyFox July 27, 2018 Musicals, Reviews, Theatre There were moments when this was actually frightening. It's interesting to see Tommy Steele at 81 playing a London audience, which he clearly...
Evita (Mayflower Southampton/Touring) JohnnyFox January 18, 2017 Musicals, Reviews, Theatre 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...
Review: Miss Atomic Bomb (St James’s Theatre) JohnnyFox March 15, 2016 Musicals, Reviews Shouldn’t put ‘bomb’ in the title of a musical. It makes for such a soft target. It’s not often theatre reviews are bad enough to...
Review: The Sound of Music (Tour) JohnnyFox April 11, 2015 Musicals, Reviews The mammoth Bill Kenwright year-long tour provides a perfect lens through which to examine the durability and the curiosity of The Sound of Music....
