by | May 25, 2017 | Theatre
Everybody who’s seen Grease loves Grease. It’s impossible not to hear those opening titles and not be dragged back to the 50’s to the world of the T Birds, the Pink Ladies and the bubble of High School nostalgia along with classic hit songs that I...
by | Apr 22, 2017 | Theatre
Based on the songs of Swedish pop band ABBA and written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, Mamma Mia! has been played in more than 40 countries in all 6 continents and has been translated into 22 languages. Over 60 million people have seen the show worldwide and...
by | Mar 21, 2017 | Theatre
I aren’t typically a fan of book to film adaptations (think One Day in particular) and from previous experiences I haven’t always been the biggest fan of taking a film and putting it on stage. Grease the Musical left me massively underwhelmed and I’m pretty sure it’s...
by | Feb 3, 2017 | Theatre
My plus one for the evening, a hardcore Evita fan who cites the 1996 film starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas as one of her favourite films (“of all time”) assured me I was in for a treat but aside from being able to warble a version of the iconic...
by | Nov 16, 2016 | Theatre
After growing up with the songs of The Commitments, Jimmy Rabbite and drunken Christmas performances of Mustang Sally, when I heard Caroline Ranger and co had created a West End production of the much love working class film I was off on the train down to London,...
