Dazzling screens projecting the galaxy with shooting stars and the feeling that something momentous is about to happen, greet you as you enter the Ipswich Regent Theatre, promising a glittering show of the music we all love and adore by Queen. The immensely talented Ben Elton has recreated the incredibly popular show, with a returnContinue reading “Review: 4**** We Will Rock You – Ipswich Regent Theatre @wwryglobal @QueenWillRock @wwrytour”
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Review: 4**** Vivaldi Meets Werther: Four Seasons – Bridewell Theatre / Opera in the City Festival @TimeZoneTheatre @OperaCityFest @BridewellCentre
The concept alone makes this production intriguing: two famous artistic works – one musical, one literary – being paired up to provide a new way to experience each of them. Pamela Schermann splices together a rendition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Goethe’s pro-romantic novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Passages of music are interwoven withContinue reading “Review: 4**** Vivaldi Meets Werther: Four Seasons – Bridewell Theatre / Opera in the City Festival @TimeZoneTheatre @OperaCityFest @BridewellCentre”
Review: 4**** A Beautiful Noise – Lyric Theatre #ABeautifulNoise @TheLyricTheatre @FisherStevensUK
Tweetingit: 4* Dust off your best karaoke voice for a good old sing song; but more importantly, the celebration of a great modern songwriter. So the great tribute bandwagon rolls on with A Beautiful Noise at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftsbury Avenue. The title song was a top 20 hit for Neil Diamond, one ofContinue reading “Review: 4**** A Beautiful Noise – Lyric Theatre #ABeautifulNoise @TheLyricTheatre @FisherStevensUK”
Review: 4**** The Greatest Love Of All – The London Palladium @TGLOAShow @LondonPalladium @BelindaDavids
Tweetingit: 4* Belinda Davids pays tribute to Whitney Houston in a sparkling show at the London Palladium. If only all Sunday nights could look and sound this good! A film documentary entitled Can I Be Me spoke volumes for the painfully short life of Whitney Houston; interviews with those closest to her showed how sheContinue reading “Review: 4**** The Greatest Love Of All – The London Palladium @TGLOAShow @LondonPalladium @BelindaDavids”
Review: 4**** George, Eventim Apollo Hammersmith @EventimApollo #Rob Lamberti #GeorgeMichael
Tweetingit: 4* Bouffant hair, three day stubble and regulation ray-bans all present and correct; oh the voice is pretty bloody decent too! A highly enjoyable celebration of the man and his music; all courtesy of the brilliant Rob Lamberti. When George Michael died on Christmas Day 2016, it marked the end of a wretched depressinglyContinue reading “Review: 4**** George, Eventim Apollo Hammersmith @EventimApollo #Rob Lamberti #GeorgeMichael”
Review: 4**** The Bowie Experience: The Golden Years Tour Hackney Empire @HackneyEmpire @bowieexperience
Tweetingit: 4* A true icon and his live show re-imagined; A hugely entertaining take on a greatest hits package. I defy anyone not to enjoy this show! June 1983: post-punk, pre Band Aid and belted safari jackets were inexplicably in fashion. But more importantly, it marked the only occasion I saw David Bowie play live.Continue reading “Review: 4**** The Bowie Experience: The Golden Years Tour Hackney Empire @HackneyEmpire @bowieexperience”
Review: 4**** Songs For Nobodies @WiltonMusicHall
I should start by saying I’m not a music aficionado, so this review is the honest opinion of your average 20-something who decided to see a one-woman musical performance with little to no prior knowledge of what it actually is.” Songs for Nobodies” celebrates five amazing singers: Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith PiafContinue reading “Review: 4**** Songs For Nobodies @WiltonMusicHall”
Playhouse Pickings 