While a lot of the focus and questions have been surrounding West End Theatre musical productions returning – we shouldn’t forget to champion new British musicals says Emma Clarendon.
‘Feels much more in the past than it should’: FIVER – Southwark Playhouse
Musically the show is lovely, but Fiver sadly feels much more in the past than it should, and for a show that is meant to showcase snapshots of all different people’s lives, lacks any significant diversity at all.
‘Pure delight of a musical’: FIVER – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★
New British musical by Alex James Ellison and Tom Lees, Fiver follows a humble five pound note as it passes through the hands and pockets of various people in London.
‘Deserves a great future’: FIVER – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
Fiver is a heartwarming new musical that has great potential thanks to its catchy score and wonderfully uplifting spirit.
The Secret Garden post-show Q&A livestream: How is the Barn Theatre doing things differently?
The Barn Theatre’s inaugural production of The Secret Garden extended by a fortnight – which very helpfully allowed Terri Paddock to fit another trip to Cirencester and a post-show Q&A into the diary. And she’s very glad she did. The full discussion is going down a storm on Facebook Live too. As is the #SecretGardenJam.
‘The future could be rosy’: THE SECRET GARDEN – Cirencester
A lively and emotional actor-musician production of The Secret Garden marks a fantastic debut for the brand new Barn Theatre in the Cotswolds.
CD REVIEW: Favourite Sins
Released earlier this month, Favourite Sins is 4-track EP of musical theatre tracks written by actor/singer/songwriter Alex James Ellison with lyricists Robert Gould (whose work I have previously reviewed here and here) and Jimmy Granstrom.
ALIENS LOVE UNDERPANTS – Touring & West End
This best-selling children’s book Aliens Love Underpants, written by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort, is pretty much staple bedtime reading in our house. Now the hilarious family favourite, presented by Big Wooden Horse and Nick Brooke Limited, has been adapted for the stage by Adam Bampton-Smith. Apparently, aliens love underpants of every size, shape and colour, but they can’t get their extraterrestrial fingers on any underpants in space so they have to obtain them by other means…
Review: Whistle Down The Wind (Union Theatre)
Whistle Down The Wind had a huge effect on me. It was the first ‘film with people in it’ (as opposed to cartoons) that my parents took me to see. Of course, aged 7, even in black-and-white I fell in love with Hayley Mills – a brilliant casting by her godfather Bryan Forbes for whom the eerie allegorical drama […]
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Review: Whistle Down The Wind (Union Theatre)
Whistle Down The Wind had a huge effect on me. It was the first ‘film with people in it’ (as opposed to cartoons) that my parents took me to see. Of course, aged 7, even in black-and-white I fell in love with Hayley Mills – a brilliant casting by her godfather Bryan Forbes for whom the eerie allegorical drama […]
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