Despite my low opinion of this play, it was better than I expected – only because I expected it to be really awful. Lohan proves that she can remember lines and move around the stage, but the acting wasn’t particularly convincing.
There is so much competition in London theatre, so when a new play comes to the stage it needs to offer something that can convince the audience to spend money there instead of at a dozen other theatres. It could be the play itself – maybe it’s by a famous writer or has wide audience appeal. Or maybe it’s the casting, using a particular actor that is renowned in their craft.
Stars are skewered and musical theatre sent up in this cult hit that has made the leap to the West End
From one singing feline to another, Nicole Scherzinger has recently been announced as leading the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats. Originally rising to fame as the lead singer for ‘The PussyCat Dolls’ Scherzinger will be taking her first steps in the West End as the Glamour Cat Grizabella when the show premiers at the London Palladium on 6th December this year. She will perform for almost the entire run, leaving the cast on 7th February just before the show itself closes on the 28th.
Thriller Live, the global hit Michael Jackson tribute show that is currently entertaining audiences at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End has extended its booking period through to 6 September 2015.
This much anticipated new staging of Verdi’s masterpiece is directed by David Alden, a veteran of many fine productions who enjoyed a particular success recently with his haunting and startling revival of Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britain, at this same address.