Last night saw the return of Save the Last Dance For Me to the Regent Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent. Brought to us bythe mac daddy of all things theatre, Mr Bill Kenright, the mastermind behind Dreamboats and Petticoats, Save the Last Dance for Me is a Rock n Roll...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is up there with the likes of Sound of Music and Mary Poppins as "shows you must have watched at the age of 8/any time it's shown on the TV over Christmas or Bank Holiday weekend!" With this in mind, consider me ashamed to admit that even...
Do you ever wish the TV show you grew up on had grown up with you? That the characters you once loved, made you laugh and taught you your abc's had hurtled through the Tots TV era and straight into the fuck, shits and pisses reality of your adulthood? Avenue Q, "the...
There's something about magic which even after you feel you've ooh'd ahh'd at enough dodgy card tricks and hidden penny routines to last you a lifetime, being asked to pick a card, ANY CARD from a deck of playing card still makes your inquisitive radar bleep. I for...
Prior to his untimely and tragic death in 2009 as he was on the brink of a sell out, multi date tour at London's O2, Michael Jackson had been the undisputed King of Pop. Following his debut success as part of the Jackson 5 with his brothers in the 1970s , Jacksons...
Annie is best known to those of my generation about a little ginger curly haired orphan, her dog Sandy, a drunken Miss Hannigan and the sugar daddy of dreams, Daddy Warbucks. Originally based on the Broadway musical “Annie” an adaptation of the Harold Gray comic strip...
Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start... The Sound of Music isn't just a musical, nor is it just a film, it's a story that is embroiled in many people's history or childhood, much like it was mine. If you haven't seen the film or stage show...
Mention East is East in a room full of people and the majority of them will recite their own chosen quote from the show, usually a toss up between "mam, dad, the pakis are here!" and "make bloody show of me!" in a faux Salford or Asian accent and then dissolve into a...
After six years of planning The Bodyguard Musical, written by Alexandra Dinelaris as produced by Michael Harrison debuted in Londons West End in November 2012. The show is based on the 1992 film of the same named that featured Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston as its...
Before I begin this review, I need to point out that there will be absolutely NO SPOILERS. If you want to know what happens in the show then you won't find it here because my lips are sealed. You may think that this review may not be very informative considering I...