Phil Willmott
25 Jul
Reviews 
Review of Shakespeare in Love
By Phil Willmott Friday, July 25 2014, 11:20
However you may feel about stage adaptations of films dominating the West End no one can deny that this one is first class entertainment. It’s funny, romantic and thrilling, dripping with beautiful costumes adorning a huge cast on a simple but stylish set that can be manipulated and lit to create plenty of breathtaking moments.
23 Jul
Reviews
Review of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, July 23 2014, 07:58
A cast change in the relatively long running West End comedy JEEVES AND WOOSTER in PERFECT NONSENSE allowed me to finally see what all the fuss is about. I’m happy to confirm that it’s as laugh out loud funny as everyone says and you should take anybody you know who could benefit from two hours of undemanding, hilarious fun.
Jeeves and Wooster were the creations of the prolific P.G Wodehouse whose comic novels have remained top sellers ever since he penned them in the 1930s. They’re his most popular characters: an ingenious and po-faced butler (Jeeves) and his silly-arse master (Bertie) who the man servant has to rescue from all sorts of light hearted peril. The TV series starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie as the pair is almost as well loved as the books and on both sides of the Atlantic.
16 Jul
Reviews
Review of Let It Be
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, July 16 2014, 16:09
I went to review LET IT BE, returning to the West End at the Garrick Theatre for a summer residency, with very low expectations. Although it’s been so popular that this is its third London run it opened a few years ago to stinking reviews from every serious critic.
Their beef with the show is that it isn’t one. Copyright issues prevent the Beatles songs it contains being presented within any narrative and no writer is credited because there’s virtually no dialogue. It is in effect a two hour tribute act.
03 Jun
Reviews
Review of Bakersfield Mist
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, June 3 2014, 09:02
Everybody loves dinner after a show in the West End but it has to be the right show to give you time for a bite and your journey home afterwards. Now, thanks to producer Nica Burns there’s BAKERSFIELD MIST, a perfectly formed slice of drama, starring real life, Hollywood royalty that whizzes through in barely 90 minutes leaving you plenty of time to search out that perfect Covent Garden eatery for supper, a glass of wine and a chat about what you’ve seen.
30 May
Reviews
Review of Miss Saigon
By Phil Willmott Friday, May 30 2014, 13:32
The Eighties are back. Or at least a fine example of the eighties blockbuster musical.
Throughout that decade the producer Cameron Macintosh dominated the West End and Broadway with a series of phenomenally successful shows including Les Mis, which is still very much with us on stage and DVD and Miss Saigon which ran for many years at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It’s been dusted down and spruced up in a touring production which now arrives at the producers own theatre, the Prince Edward.
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