Writers/Composers: Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie Director: Kate Golledge Reviewer: David Guest Somewhere in the West End grown people are weeping over casting calls, production notes and new musical scripts. For members of the National Youth Music Theatre have smashed it again with a brand new musical with a message written especially for young people which jealous adults just can’t ...
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Book and Lyrics: Timothy Knapman Music and Lyrics: Laurence Mark Wythe Director: Kate Golledge Reviewer: Richard Maguire Based on a play by the Azerbaijani playwright Elchin, this new musical is reminiscent of both Dr. Faustus and An Inspector Calls, with even a few nods to A Christmas Carol. Midnight is a dark and comic moral tale of what happens when you sell ...
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Book and Lyrics: Jake Brunger Music and Lyrics: Pippa Cleary Director: Kate Golledge Reviewer: Maryam Philpott Red Riding Hood is one of the darkest children’s tales; the story alone, with its focus on grandma gobbling and big bad wolves, gives it one of the most sinister plots, while looking again as an adult you can see it as a ...
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Music and lyrics: Jerry Herman Director: Kate Golledge Reviewer: Stephen Bates Jerry Herman is what he is - a master of traditional Broadway musicals. He is also the creator of some formidable female characters, even if the best known of them are a little too seasoned to be called “girls” and, in the case of La Cage Aux Folles, ...
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Producers have today announced full casting for the London revival of musical revueJerry’s Girlswhich, 30 years after it opened on Broadway, will be revived in a limited two-week run at the St. James Studio from 3 to 15 March. Jerry’s Girls areAnna-Jane Casey, Ria JonesandSarah-Louise Young. Casey has recently been seen in Forbidden Broadway but other West End credits include ...
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