EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2009 - REVIEW: HAVE A NICE LIFE, George Square 2, August 13
Robert Gould finds Conor Mitchell and Matthew Hurt's new musical at the Edinburgh Fringe brilliantly therapeutic.
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EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2009 - REVIEW: OVER THE THRESHOLD, George Square 2, August 13
Robert Gould is not convinced that this new musical crosses the threshold into greatness.
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2009 - REVIEW: THE GREAT BRITISH SOAP OPERA, George Square 2, August 12
Robert Gould 'takes note' of the new Jake Brunger/Pippa Cleary musical that is wowing audiences at this year's Fringe.
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2009 - REVIEW: FALSETTOLAND, George Square 2, August 11
Selladoor theatre company welcomes audiences to Falsettoland at the Fringe and Robert Gould exaamines this festival of Finn.
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2009 - REVIEW: CHAT! - A NEW BRITISH MUSICAL, George Square 2, August 11
Robert Gould logs in to the musical Chat Room to bring you up to speed with this new Fringe show by Take Note Theatre.
REVIEW: COME FLY WITH ME, Wales Millennium Centre
Sixties cool, big band swing and quick-fire tongue-in-cheek humour - those are the ingredients that combine to make the hearty musical fare served up for three performances at the Wales Millennium Centre's intimate Weston Studio on August 6-7 - the world premiere of 'Come Fly With Me', a musical com
'AFTER THE TURN' - The Road To Making A New Musical
The birth of a new musical involves a mixture of passion, inspiration, frustration, hard work, an element of luck and the coming together of a group of individuals who have the desire and will to make it work.
Review: Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill
Spend Spend Spend, a show that first hit the West End back in 1999 - with its tuneful score, hard-nosed but also raunchily humorous book and an emotional core that rings with human truth - is a much underrated gem of a musical.
"Sister Act, the Musical" makes Whoopi at the London Palladium
The opening number of Sister Act - the musical, which opened on June 2 at the London Palladium, is entitled ?Take Me To Heaven? - and that is precisely what this delightful new show does to its audience.
Review: Only Men Aloud open their UK tour on a high
A single figure appears at the back of the stage.
Review: The Thorn Birds, the musical - a tragic disaster in Swansea
The Thorn Birds - which began life as Colleen McCullough's multi-million copy best selling 1977 novel and went on to become one of the most successful TV mini-series of the 1980s - deals with the clash between passionate love and faithful duty to God.
Review: Jet Set Go! at the Jermyn Street Theatre
Anyone who has ever experienced the joys - or woes - of transatlantic flying may wish to fasten their seat belts and head off to see a new musical that takes its audience on a flight from London to New York and back again.
Review: Spring Awakening Transfers to the West End
In a time when the average musical theatre menu served in the West End consists of revived old musicals, bland and rather inconsequential new musicals or purely commercial vehicles with little originality of content and no original score - it is a breath of fresh air to have a musical theatre piece
Masterton Says 'Hello, Jerry!' on March 22
On March 22nd, cabaret artiste Leanne Masterton will bring her acclaimed one woman tribute to Jerry Herman, Hello Jerry!, to the intimate Basement in London's Leicester Square Theatre.
Clwyd Theatre's musical Great Expectations Thrills
From the misty opening on the Essex marshes to the bittersweet denouement of Dickens' compelling story, Clwyd Theatr Cymru's new musical adaptation of Great Expectations charms, delights and grips its audience throughout.
Masterton Says 'Hello, Jerry!' on March 22
On March 22nd, cabaret artiste Leanne Masterton will bring her acclaimed one woman tribute to Jerry Herman, Hello Jerry!, to the intimate Basement in London's Leicester Square Theatre.
'A Stage Kindly' showcase of new musicals in London
Following their sell-out debut performances last autumn, A Stage Kindly will present a new series of revues of new musical theatre writing at various venues in London and Brighton in March 2009.
2009 Welsh Musical Theatre Young Singer Of The Year
At the Swansea Grand Theatre on Saturday February 21, the title of 2009 Principality Building Society Welsh Musical Theatre Young Singer Of The Year was awarded to Catherine Mort, a young singer from Swansea who is currently studying at the Guildford School of Acting.
Sondheim's 'Saturday Night' at Jermyn Street
Hidden away in the tiny basement that is London's Jermyn Street Theatre is a new production of a relatively unknown gem of a show - Saturday Night - with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Casablanca screenwriters, Philip G.
Spring Awakens at the Lyric Hammersmith
It is a rare thing in musical theatre that a show comes along that is vibrant, funny, touching, thought provoking, edgy, relevant, timeless and thoroughly entertaining.
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