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Samantha Barks as Elsa (Photo: Johan Persson)

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

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:11 September 2021
Post category:Musical Review West End

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.

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

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:26 August 2021
Post category:Musical News Review West End
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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.

Adam Bailey as Bob Gaudio, Ben Joyce as Frankie Valli, Benjamin Yates as Tommy De Vito and Karl James Wilson as Nick Massi (Photo: Darren Bell)

REVIEW: Jersey Boys, Trafalgar Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:20 August 2021
Post category:Musical Review West End
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Although Jersey Boys is a musical made up of a back catalogue, and what a back catalogue it is, it has a good content of interesting biographical detail about these remarkable singers which drives the show.Tommy De Vito (Benjamin Yates) is the driving force getting the group together and recruiting the amazing Frankie Castelluccio (Ben Joyce) with his incredible falsetto voice. He changed his name to Frankie Valley and later to the more Italian ending Valli after a Texan hillbilly singer, Jean Valli.