By Phil Willmott Monday, April 4 2016, 14:51
One of theatre’s great innovations in recent years has been the filming of hit productions, enabling us to enjoy them on screen after they've finished their runs in live venues.
There was a time when producers may have worried it would affect sales if the public knew they had the cheaper option of watching a film of a hit show rather than paying four times the amount to see the production in the theatre.
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 25 2016, 12:43
Producer Bill Kenwright is to be congratulated for taking that most dangerous of financial risks, launching a new musical in the West End. Recent attempts to do so, MADE IN DAGENHAM and BEND IT LIKE BECHAM failed to turn into long running hits.
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 25 2016, 11:53
At London’s Coliseum theatre the beleaguered, cash strapped English National Opera are mounting a staged concert of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s SUNSET BOULEVARD, a sure fire box office hit.
We’ve known for some time that it will star Hollywood’s Glenn Close reprising the role she played in the US. Full casting has now been announced along with the release of extra tickets.
By Preece Killick Friday, March 25 2016, 11:19
From the moment you step through the doors of the N16’s rather wonderful theatre (now, perhaps confusingly, in SW12) you might be forgiven for assuming you are about to be treated, or patronised even, with a show more suited to those citizens under the age of ten but once the lights dim, with a plastic cup of punch, a packet of love-hearts in your hand, and surrounded by a multitude of combusting balloons, things begin to change.
By Davor Golub Friday, March 25 2016, 10:27
Word on the street is that the show will be coming to London sometime in 2017.
Over the past 15 years there has been a plethora of adaptations of Hollywood movies into stage musicals. The success of these ventures from film to the stage depends on whether or not the theatrical team behind the transfer is able to create a piece that is not just a lazy copy but rather one that has a unique theatrical language and reason for being on the stage.
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