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The Burning Bush (Photo Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: The Prince of Egypt, Dominion (2020)
Closing 8th January 2022

I loved the singing voices of the main women, Christine Allado, Alexia Khadime as Miriam and Tanisha Spring as Queen Nefertari and the tunes would be better appreciated with a better book and less razzmatazz. The hit song "When You Believe" is sung superbly by Alexia Khadime and Christine Allado. The stage briefly lights up with the burning bush scene, the flames are dancers, the waters of the Nile turn red with blood and the Red Sea parts to let the Hebrews through. The number of plagues are very reduced but Hotep is hit badly with red, oozing pustulent boils. Let's move on!

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Closing 8th January 2022
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Jamael Westman as Alexander Hamilton and Company - Photo: Matthew Murphy

REVIEW: Hamilton, Victoria Palace (2017) returning 19th August 2021

The Hamilton phenomenon takes London by storm in this brilliant and exciting musical... "Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?"Tagline for Hamilton Jamael Westman as Alexander Hamilton and Company…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre (2016)
Jesus (Declan Bennett) - Photo by Johan Persson

REVIEW: Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre (2016)

Timothy Sheader's production at the Open Air in Regent's Park is exciting, brilliantly sung and choreographed and, best of all, unbounded by walls.  On a fine summer's evening, the cast join us progressing through the audience and immediately I felt we were witnessing a joyous sect of enthusiastic and inspired youth.  They are magnetic so that you want to be part of them.  They make their way down to the stage dominated by a 35 foot cross on the playing area.

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