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No Sex Please we’re Shakespearean: Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Hackney Empire

Saturday 1st July 2017 As always, the Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre department are on trend with their latest end of term production of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’, the musical.  Shakespeare has long provided rich pickings for those looking for … Continue reading

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Love and Wall: Amour at the Royal Academy of Music

Saturday 27th June 2015, matinée It’s a familiar story.  The setting is Paris.  A man steals a loaf of bread and ends up in prison.  He escapes and is eventually vindicated, befriending an assortment of street people including an unfeasibly … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Royal Academy of Music! ‘Curtain Up’ puts the future into Musical Theatre

Sunday 30th November 2014 Having been fans of the Royal Academy of Music musical theatre student shows for some time, we were delighted to discover that there would be a twentieth anniversary concert – it would be a chance to … Continue reading

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‘Til the clouds roll by: An Evening of silver linings with Jerome Kern at the Royal Academy of Music

Saturday 28th June 2014 If you think singing on stage is scary, try doing it in a room with no mike, no production values and nowhere to hide.  This is the challenge that faces Musical Theatre students from the Royal … Continue reading

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Big Heart: Little Women at the Royal Academy of Music

Sunday 29th June 2014, matinée Little Women is so iconic that even if you haven’t read the book or seen one of the many films or adaptations, you’ll feel as though you have.  This is a generous helping of warm-hearted sentimentality … Continue reading

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The Importance of being Irish: A Man of No Importance at the Royal Academy of Music

Saturday 28th June 2014, matinée It’s that time of year again – when we embark on the Royal Academy of Music‘s annual weekend marathon of shows by their Musical Theatre students.  We’ve got a sneaking suspicion that the tutors at … Continue reading

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‘Little Me’ leaves a big impression at the Royal Academy of Music

Saturday 22nd June 2013 Our second visit to the Royal Academy of Music for their end of year Musical Theatre shows couldn’t have been more different from the first.  If A Catered Affair is a kitchen sink drama, ‘Little Me’ … Continue reading

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Marriage of inconvenience: A Catered Affair at the Royal Academy of Music

Tuesday 18th June 2013 It was with a great sense of anticipation that we made our way back to the Royal Academy of Music after a two year absence for their Musical Theatre students’ end of year show ‘A Catered Affair’.  … Continue reading

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Follies at the Royal Academy of Music: We loved these broadway babies

Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Follies’ is a musical all about performers at the end of their careers, traditionally a showcase for the most distinguished and well-loved actresses and actors of the time.  Here, Karen Rabinowitz, course leader of the postgraduate diploma in Musical … Continue reading

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Tommy at the Royal Academy of Music: there’s a new (pinball) wizard in town

‘Welcome to the Royal Academy of Music’s first ever rock show.  Ear plugs available if you need them’ reads a sign in the auditorium.  Putting on a rock opera as one of a selection of Summer shows performed by students … Continue reading

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