Tag: Simon Bailey

Posted in Albums Andrew Lloyd Webber Dolly Parton Jason Robert Brown Marvin Hamlisch Music Musicals Scott Alan Stephen Sondheim

Album Reviews: Simon Bailey – Looking Up / Louise Dearman – It’s Time / Bonnie Langford – Now

Album reviews – Simon Bailey – Looking Up, Louise Dearman – It’s Time and Bonnie Langford –…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Theatre review Waterloo East Theatre

Review: Jest End, Waterloo East Theatre

“Oh God I cannot stand this cow But let’s act happy for now” As with Forbidden Broadway,…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Cast Recordings Music

Album Review: The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

  “We had such hopes…” To celebrate its 25th anniversary, The Phantom of the Opera decamped to…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Criterion Theatre

“Learning to let go” Just a quickie for this one-off – a fundraiser for the Make A…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: The Theory of Relativity, Drayton Arms Theatre

“Find your favourite fruit” Given that in ‘Quiet’, Matilda is giving West End audiences lessons on the…

Posted in Laurence O'Keefe Musicals Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Review: Bat Boy The Musical, Southwark Playhouse

“Don’t talk like a slut, dear” It seems scarcely credible that Bat Boy The Musical ever opened in a…

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Looking ahead to 2015

I realise I’m just adding (belatedly) to the plethora of 2015 features already published but so many…

Posted in Musicals Stephen Sondheim The Other Palace Theatre

Review: Marry Me A Little, St James Theatre

“Who needs Albert Schweitzer when the lights are low” Just a (relative) quickie for this as I…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: I Can’t Sing, Palladium Theatre

“It’s a no, it’s a yes, it’s a no from me” One of the most profitable television…