Category: Musical
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Murder For Two (Riverside Parramatta) ★★★★★
After knocking us dead last year at Hayes, Murder For Two gets a short, sharp run at Riverside Parramatta. Maverick Newman and Gabbi Bolt are back with a bigger set, and a million characters to bring to life.
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In The Heights (Sydney Opera House) ★★★½
There just isn’t a better venue to “look at the fireworks” than the Opera House.
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Little Women (Hayes) ★★★
Little Women at the Hayes strips the show back to the core with an abstract staging that puts the focus on the words and vocals.
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Ride The Cyclone (Hayes) ★★★★
Ride The Cyclone sees the team at the Hayes pull out all the stops and boy does it pay off. When you’re having this much fun, who cares if the plot treads water.
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Chicago (Capitol Theatre) ★★★½
As great as the ol’ girl is… has she run out of steam?
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Parade (Seymour Centre) ★★★½
There is a timeliness to director Mark Taylor’s new rendition of Parade that the creative team could not have anticipated when this went into production.
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London: The Musicals
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) ★★★★★ / Standing at the Sky’s Edge ★★★1/2 / Sister Act ★★★ / London Tide ★★1/2 I saw a bit of an odd-ball selection of musicals to be honest. Some were more experimental than others.
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London: The Cine-theatre
Stranger Things: The First Shadow ★★★★ / The Picture of Dorian Gray ★★★★★ / Opening Night ★★ / ABBA: Voyage ★★★★. The collision of technology and the stage is nothing new but across all the shows I saw in London, a few used the blend of cameras, screens and live performance better than others.
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Tell Me on a Sunday (Hayes Theatre) ★★★½
Erin Clare is remarkable in Lloyd Webber’s rather unremarkable musical.
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Grease: The Musical (Capitol Theatre) ★★★1/2
When this production of Grease lets rip, it roars!
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