Stuart King
20 May
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Review: MY FAIR LADY at The London Coliseum
By Stuart King Friday, May 20 2022, 09:52
As a child, this reviewer heard countless plays of the household’s Lerner and Leowe musical albums: Camelot, Paint Your Wagon, Brigadoon and of course My Fair Lady (based on George Bernard Shaw’s playPygmalion). All, had been huge commercial stage successes, spawning sumptuously colourful film versions indelibly associated with the golden age of the Hollywood musical.
The company of My Fair Lady. Credit Marc Brenner.
18 May
Reviews
Review: GREASE at the Dominion Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 18 2022, 10:02
Set at the fictional Rydell High, GREASE — the perennial first crush, school musical — has previously enjoyed long runs at London theatres in the early 1970s (before the film’s release) and again in the early 1990s. This year the show celebrates 50 years since it first appeared on Broadway and to mark the milestone, a new production directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by West End stalwart Arlene Phillips, has just opened at the Dominion Theatre.
13 May
Reviews
Review: BONNIE AND CLYDE at the Arts Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, May 13 2022, 12:39
Great Depression era outlaws Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were immortalised in the news reports of the day and subsequently in literature, songs and later still, the iconic 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. The Arts Theatre now plays host to the musical version of the romantic couple’s criminal exploits, which enjoyed a brief run on Broadway over a decade ago.
Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie) and Jordan Luke Gage (Clyde) in Bonnie & Clyde The Musical at the Arts Theatre.
13 May
Reviews
Review: DOM JUAN at The Vaults, Waterloo
By Stuart King Friday, May 13 2022, 11:32
It is entirely appropriate that the Theatre Lab Company are staging the playboy exploits of Molière’s famously unrepentant philanderer, at the quintessentially seedy and bohemian Vaults in Waterloo.
08 May
Reviews
Review: DON PASQUALE at Royal Opera House
By Stuart King Sunday, May 8 2022, 22:27
Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera Don Pasquale - first performed in early January 1843 in Paris - ended the opera buffa period on a high note. Its hugely successful premiere which included 4 of the most renowned singers of the day has remained a popular inclusion in the operatic repertoire to this day, despite a few noticeable periods of absence when it inexplicably fell out of fashion.
Pretty Yende (Norina) and Lucio Gallo (Don Pasquale) in Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House © 2022 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper.
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