Really, in the end, Mary Poppins is the kind of production full of uncomplicated fun that can’t help but
uplift the soul in the most delightful way.
THE BRAILLE LEGACY – Charing Cross
There’s a magnificent story behind The Braille Legacy. Louis Braille, the blind French boy who applied himself to developing a language of tactile dots that brought literature to the sightless.
THE BRAILLE LEGACY – Charing Cross
Blinded in a childhood accident, Louis Braille’s keen intelligence saw him ruffle feathers at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth where he resided, mainly because prevailing societal attitudes considered the blind to be untrainable.
Year in Review: Jonathan Baz’s top shows of 2016
My favourite moments of the shows that I saw in 2016 are below and include performances from across the UK, together with the USA and also Europe. Theatre, cabaret, dance and concert performances are all included and there’s no ranking.
CEILI O’CONNOR: THE UNDERSTUDY – Century Club
What better way to showcase Ceili O’Connor’s cabaret than as The Understudy – treating a packed audience at the Century Club to a whirl through many of the numbers that she had evidently honed to perfection, though enchantingly, giving each of these classic songs a delightful re-imagining.
BAD GIRLS – Union Theatre
Ten years after it opened (and swiftly closed) in the West End, there’s a fringe revival of this tuneful take on life in a women’s prison. Drawn from Bad Girls, their popular TV series, Chadwick and McManus took the programme’s characters and location and fashioned them into a full blown musical. That it only lasted two months is not surprising – the plot lines are predictable and the characters are, for the most part, clichéd caricatures.