Read more about the article REVIEW: Frozen, the West End Musical, Theatre Royal Drury Lane (2021). Closing 8th September 2024
Samantha Barks as Elsa (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Frozen, the West End Musical, Theatre Royal Drury Lane (2021). Closing 8th September 2024

How refreshing to have a Disney film that doesn't end with a marriage! There is much to entertain and please adults in this show but your six year olds may need the stamina for a two and a half hour spectacle with brilliant singing and performances.  However many will be pleased that the scary Marshmallow monster does not figure in the UK musical.  Casting Samantha Barks and Stephanie McKeon with their acting ability and contrasting singing voices is a master stroke. 

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre (2021)   CLOSING 12th JUNE 2022
Carrie Hope Fletcher as Cinderella and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt as the Stepmother (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre (2021) CLOSING 12th JUNE 2022

Carrie Hope Fletcher is a real asset to this show, she sings like a dream and has a super personality with lashings of humour which the other women all seem to lack. I saw Ivano Turco's understudy Michael Hamway as Sebastian who is operatically trained and his singing is gorgeous but his dance moves are decidedly odd.

Continue ReadingREVIEW: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre (2021) CLOSING 12th JUNE 2022

REVIEW: Grit of Life, Widgeon Theatre Boat (2021)

For anyone who has fond memories of time on a canal boat, not actually being a bargee but borrowing one for a holiday, this show is a must, a celebration of the canals and those who live on them.  Grit of Life is narrated by John Knowles, author and director, with Rory McLeod as song writer, on an 84 year old Canal Boat. The Widgeon Theatre Boat can tour its play with music to navigable water ways and you can sit the other side of the towpath. 

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