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Honours Blog: Musical Pride and Prejudice
why we should start taking Musical 'fluff' seriously.
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The 39 Steps – The Customs House, South Shields
Writer: John Buchan Adaptor: Patrick Barlow Director: Gareth Hunter Reviewer: Ian Cain [Rating:4.5] In 2006, Gareth Hunter set up ION Productions to produce top quality shows using professional and...
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INTERVIEW: Ten Minutes with Jamie Gray, ( Nice Swan Theatre Company)
Nice Swan Theatre Company was established in 2009 as a way of providing a stepping stone from amateur to professional theatre productions for talented under-25-year-olds in the North East. They have...
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INTERVIEW: 10 minutes with Dougal Irvine
Dougal Irvine is one of the UK’s most exciting new musical theatre writers. A graduate of Birmingham University, Irvine went on to train at the Mountview Academy. After spending ten years working as an...
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INTERVIEW: Idina Menzel
Whatever type of music or theatre you’re into, chances are you’ve heard Idina Menzel‘s voice. She was part of the Broadway revolution that was Rent in 1996, was the first to immerse herself in green...
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NEWS: Idina Menzel to return to UK: London, Manchester and Edinburgh
One-time Wicked Witch of the West Idina Menzel is set to return to London in October (after a glorious gig at the Royal Albert Hall last autumn) for a one week residency at the Apollo Theatre, followed...
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Edinburgh Fringe – Anthony Rapp: Without You – Underbelly
Writer: Anthony Rapp Reviewer: John Roberts [Rating:5] “Will I lose my dignity, will someone care?” a haunting line from Jonathan Larson’s touching and landscape-changing musical RENT, and the line...
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Anthony Rapp: Without You – Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Writer: Anthony Rapp Musical Director: Daniel A Weiss Reviewer: Lucy Thackray [rating:4] Anthony Rapp’s autobiographical one-man show soared through Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival leaving a trail of soggy...
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Rent – Greenwich Theatre, London
Book, music and lyrics: Jonathan Larson Director: Paul Taylor-Mills Reviewer: Elizabeth Vile [rating:4.5] The appeal of Jonathan Larson’s Rent never seems to diminish and it returns to London with this...
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Idina Menzel – Apollo Theatre, London
Production: Speckulation Entertainment Musical Director: Rob Mounsey Reviewer: Lucy Thackray [rating:5] Idina Menzel, best known for originating the roles of Maureen in RENT and Elphaba in Wicked (for...
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Idina Menzel – The Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Reviewer: Amy Taylor [rating:4] Broadway darling and one of the voices of her generation, Idina Menzel really doesn’t need an introduction. The multi-talented star of stage, silver screen and...
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RENT – Cockpit Theatre, London
Music/Lyrics: Jonathan Larson Director: Timothy O’Hara/Sarah Henley Musical director: Scott Morgan Choreographer: Kamilah Beckles Reviewer: Lucy Thackray [rating:4] Jonathan Larson’s RENT, a 90s take...
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La bohème – Bristol Hippodrome
Music: Giacomo Puccini Director: Annabel Arden Reviewer: Holly Spanner [rating:4.5] This re-staging of Giacomo Puccini’s Opera La bohème, takes place in the winter of 1913; just one year before the...
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BLOG: My Life In Theatre – Ava Eldred
There was a videotape. The stage show Cats. It had been filmed and edited and packaged and somehow found its place on the shelf in my grandparents’ house. I would watch it over and over, fascinated...
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10 Minutes With… Caissie Levy
Actress Caissie Levy has had an astonishingly successful career in musical theatre since graduating from drama school in New York in 2004. Landing the part of Maureen in a national tour of RENT just a...
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NEWS: London debut for Glee star Telly Leung
Speckulation Entertainment have announced today that Glee and Broadway star Telly Leung will make his London debut at London’s most glamorous cabaret venue – The Matcham Room at The Hippodrome. Leung...
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Rent: 20th Anniversary Concert – Echo Arena, Liverpool
Book/Music/Lyrics: Jonathan Larson Director: David Wood Reviewer: John Roberts [Rating:3] Making its initial debut for a three week workshop run at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1994, which was...
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Speckulation Acoustic Sessions: Tori Allen-Martin – The Pheasantry, London
Musical Director: George Dyer Reviewer: Lucy Thackray [rating:4] Production company Speckulation is well known for its UK tours and bringing performers over from Broadway, but they also have a nice...
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Ballet Triple Bill – The Lowry, Salford
Choreography: Kate Simmons, Mary Skeaping, Maurice Béjart and others Reviewer: Peter Jacobs [rating:4] Ballet Triple Bill is a showcase by the students (mostly seniors) of Warrington-based dance school...
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INTERVIEW: Ten Minutes with Rory Taylor
In 2012 Rory Taylor was pipped at the post in the final of ITV’s Superstar – the reality TV show to find a Jesus for the huge multi-million pound arena revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ...
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