By Phil Willmott Friday, September 25 2015, 09:53
The lead singer of long established boy band TAKE THAT hasn’t had a lot of luck with musical theatre so far. A jukebox show which he wasn’t involved with but which featured many of his songs was a tepid affair and his score for the Broadway musical FINDING NEVERLAND didn’t find favour with the New York critics and audiences have dwindled.
This next project sounds like a sure fire winner though.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, September 24 2015, 16:36
Musicals, of course, are what powers London’s West End and make it the multimillion pound industry that it is but until recently not enough attention was being paid to creating new ones and we were completely dependent on importing the latest Broadway hits.
Ironically enough this has been a reversal of how things were in the eighties and nineties when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Macintosh created shows in London and exported them to New York.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, September 24 2015, 15:50
Gemma Chan and John Simm lead the cast of the 50th anniversary revival of Harold Pinter’s seriously creepy play, THE HOMECOMING.
Since the Whitehall Theatre, once home to now unfashionable sex farces, was turned into the Trafalgar Studios no one’s been quite sure what to do with it.
It’s an awkward sized and shaped venue that doesn’t quite have enough capacity to make runs of commercial theatre a viable business proposition.
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, September 22 2015, 22:32
If there’s one thing better than enjoying the score of a classic musical it’s hearing it played live by a big orchestra. Throw a major star into the mix and the combination is irresistible.
That’s what happened last year when Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel dazzled London in a semi-staged production of Sondheim’s SWEENEY TODD for English National Opera (ENO) at the London Coliseum on St Martin’s Lane.
By Oliver Mitford Tuesday, September 22 2015, 14:44
A stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film Brokeback Mountain has been given to go ahead by Annie Proulx, the writer of the original 1997 short story, and it looks as though we might be seeing the heart-breaking love story in the West End as early as next year.
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