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.
By London Box Office Thursday, May 19 2022, 10:11
GREASE originally opened in Chicago way back in 1971. It caused an instant sensation and transferred to Broadway the following year, when it was nominated for seven Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical. The show features a string of awesome songs, including Summer Nights, Greased Lightnin', Hopelessly Devoted To You and You're The One That I Want. Take a look at the images below – they’re inspiring.
Olivia Moore & Dan Partridge during the curtain call at press night for GREASE, credit Piers Allardyce
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.
By London Box Office Tuesday, May 17 2022, 09:57
The Royal Shakespeare Company and Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi are delighted to present the global premiere of the Japanese creative powerhouse Studio Ghibli's masterpiece, My Neighbour Totoro. It’s live and brilliant on stage at London's Barbican this autumn, created in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV. It’s on for a strictly limited 15-week season from 8th October 2022 to 21st January 2023.
By London Box Office Monday, May 16 2022, 12:02
Production images of the company of My Fair Lady, directed by Bartlett Sher at the London Coliseum, have just been released. The show is presented by James L. Nederlander, Jamie Wilson, Hunter Arnold, Crossroads Live, Playful Productions and The English National Opera. But there’s more... this is the critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater production of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady, not to be missed.
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