Tag: Musical
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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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Stolen (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★½
It is simply impossible to watch Stolen without a sense of sadness and rage brewing within you.
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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 Plays (Part One)
The Hills of California ★★★1/2 / Machinal ★★★★ / Minority Report ★★★ / People, Places and Things ★★★★★ I saw a wide variety of plays from big West End blockbusters to fringe two-handers. As always, more money and bigger names doesn’t always mean it’s a better show.
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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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& Juliet (Lyric Sydney) ★★★★★
& Juliet is pure joy in musical form and even after three viewings I can’t wait for more.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella ★★★
Music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II. Book by Douglas Carter Beane. Sydney Lyric till Jan 22, 2023 Oh, can we just not?! Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing particularly bad about Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, it’s just utterly, resolutely average. And it clearly cost a lot of money to make something…
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