Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Recently, Stephen Sondheim told an interviewer: “There is not enough time any longer to build stars on Broadway.” He was referring to famous
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Notre Dame de Paris returned to London this month, and it was interesting to read references in some reviews to the Richard
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A series of separate incidents at the theatre in recent months has left me with the troubling question: is the need to
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Last week producer Cameron Mackintosh ran adverts for The Phantom of the Opera in the London Evening Standard with an image of the iconic mask
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At the turn of the century, when Madonna opened in the play Up for Grabs at the Wyndham’s Theatre, a front stalls ticket cost £37.50 – a
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There are just four more performances of 42nd Street at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. These remaining shows also offer the last chance to visit this
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At the start of the year I was sceptical whether UK theatre could match the excellent new work that emerged in 2017,
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Last Sunday, Dalton Harris became the 14th winner of the X-Factor, a victory watched by 5.3 million viewers. This came at the
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One of the most remarkable moments watching the current West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company is how,
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Over the past month I’ve seen fans waiting at theatre stage doors with very different results. The first was at the Duke
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Cameron Mackintosh’s greatest legacy may not, ultimately, be the many composers he has championed but instead perhaps the West End theatres he
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After writing about two new musicals that have become theatrical success stories – Six and Be More Chill – I wanted to
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This year, there have been two slow-burn musical success stories on either side of the Atlantic. In the UK, Toby Marlow and Lucy
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Two weeks ago, I was at Norwich Cathedral for the seventh annual Norfolk Arts Awards. Norfolk is where I grew up and attending performances
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If you are a canny independent producer with a new commercial musical up your sleeve, maybe this is the year to put it
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“For show freaks, this has been a night unlike any other,” starts a particularly memorable paragraph in Ken Mandelbaum’s terrific book Not Since
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Last week, global ticketing agency Ticketmaster launched its new FlexPay plan in the US. It will allow customers to buy tickets to
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There is much pleasure to be had in rediscovering a show, an experience I recently had at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s revival
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For whatever reason, some musical theatre shows are virtually written off before they have even opened. It can’t be because the premise
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During recent weeks, it has seemed that the drama broadcast by television networks has often had little to do with new writing but
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It was the late, great theatre maverick, mischief-maker and showman Ken Campbell who used to say that a play should be either less
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Next month it will be a year since The New York Times broke the news story about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct. It exposed a toxic
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What happens when the leading man in a play at your theatre, which has no understudies, has to go to the hospital
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe ended on Monday and, as it all packs up for another year, a question has been nagging me.
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We’re entering the final days of the Edinburgh Fringe, but where’s the buzz? This fringe has seen no shortage of quality – especially in new writing. Neither has there been
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe may once have been considered a rite of passage, where many of today’s leading performers cut their teeth and before
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The Edinburgh Fringe officially began last Friday. I love the last few days before the opening each year – there is a
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The entertainment industry has been raising awareness of the issue of mental health among its workforce of late. Does it not also
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When John Logan’s play Red ends its West End revival this Saturday, audiences will remember Alfreds Molina and Enoch for their star turns in the
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Have we got to the point where some theatre classics are unstageable, or at least only stageable with significant editing? A few
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I have been closely following the World Cup, although I have not watched a single game. The reason is, if you ever
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