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Category Archives: Lucky dip!
Reader we loved them: Jane Eyre The Musical at the Royal Academy of Music
Sunday 18th June 2023 The Royal Academy of Music are doing a great job educating the next generation of Musical Theatre performers. And we are also grateful to them for giving us an education. The range of material they have … Continue reading
See it safely: Has caution made theatre an endangered species?
PROLOGUE We began drafting the post below some time ago, at a time when we were wondering if we would ever blog about theatre again. Our last theatre visit took place a week before theatres were closed in March 2020, … Continue reading
An Evening at the melancholy manor: Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s
Saturday 27th May 2019, evening It’s been a while since we were tempted into the West End for Kenneth Branagh’s takeover of the Garrick Theatre. The combination of Tom Burke and Hayley Atwell in a new Ibsen play (new to … Continue reading
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Tagged Giles Terera, Hayley Atwell, Ian Rickson, Ibsen, Peter Wight, review, Rosmersholm, Tom Burke
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Puccini at the Pub: La Boheme returns to the Kings Head Theatre
Saturday 3rd September 2016 It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than five years since we first saw La Boheme at the Soho Theatre. Little did we know that we were witnessing a phenomenon that would go from strength … Continue reading
Five Finger Exercise delivers a knuckle sandwich: Print Room at the Coronet
Saturday 23rd January 2016, matinée We were intrigued to discover that after several cosy afternoons at the Print Room in its tiny theatre space in Hereford Road, that the founders had decamped to a much more ambitious venue – the … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronet, Five Finger Exercise, Jamie Glover, Jason Merrells, Lorne MacFadyen, Peter Shaffer, Print Room, review, Terenia Edwards, Tom Morley
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I’ll Sing once More: Connie Fisher heads for the hills
The BBC recently broadcast a documentary about Connie Fisher, called I’ll Sing Once More – there is still some time left to watch it on iPlayer. It is billed as the story of Connie Fisher’s ‘attempt to cure the loss of … Continue reading
Hello? The Book of Mormon tops the league table for overpriced tickets….again
According to The Stage, there’s a new league table in town, and theatres seem to be clammering to be at the top of it. Yes, this is The Stage’s new annual ticketing survey, which declares ‘The Book of Mormon’ winner … Continue reading
Car crash theatre: Why won’t the critics defend quality in the West End?
Apparently, Lindsay Lohan has finished her West End stint as Karen in David Mamet’s ‘Speed the Plow’, and she is so delighted with how it all went that she is now contemplating a second Mamet play. ‘One Mamet down’ she … Continue reading
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Tagged critics, David Mamet, lindsay Lohan, Oleanna, Reviews, Speed the Plow, Theatre, West End
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Passion amongst the parachutes: Girlfriends at the Union Theatre
Saturday 1st November 2014, matinée We are grateful to the Union Theatre for putting on a Howard Goodall ‘season’, a selection of three of his musicals, beginning with ‘Love Story’, followed by The Dreaming, and finally ‘Girlfriends’. We eagerly anticipated … Continue reading
The Stage 100 – movers and shakers or users and takers?
It’s probably fair to say that we are not exactly the target audience for the Stage 100 list, a list of ‘movers and shakers’ in the theatre world published annually by ‘The Stage’ since 1997. We’ve never been great fans … Continue reading
Pandora’s box office: Theatre ticket agencies go viral
Do we even need to write a post on this topic, we ask ourselves? After all, most of the time, we avoid ticket agencies as much as we can. However, seeing this picture of Sir Howard Panter in the papers … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising Standards Agency, Agencies, Ambassadors Theatre Group, ATG, Box office, Delfont Mackintosh, Howard Panter, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, See tickets, Theatre, Theatremonkey, Theatrepeople, ticket prices, Ticketmaster, West End
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West End previews: Audience-sponsored rehearsals or public performances?
With the opening of Tim Rice’s new show ‘From Here to Eternity’, we had the rather interesting juxtaposition of Rice, outspoken as usual, criticising the practice of endless previews, whilst the producers of the show did their best to convince … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloggers, critics, opening night, press, previews, producers, rehearsals, Reviews, Theatre, Tim Rice, West End, West End Whingers
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High Flying Adored: Patti Lupone at the Leicester Square Theatre
Sunday 23rd June 2013, matinée These days, when the term ‘star’ is bandied about like confetti, and is more likely to refer to a celebrity or TV talent show contestant, Patti Lupone, in a week-long engagement at the Leicester Square … Continue reading
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Tagged Evita, Gypsy, Leicester Square Theatre, Patti Lupone, Seth Rudetsky, Sunset Boulevard
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