REVIEW: Chicago Blues Brothers – A night at the movies – Get ready to shake your tail feather
Chicago Blues Brothers Production Image Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 30 April 2022 Reviewer: Jo Neville Star Rating: ★★★1/2 The Blues Brothers movie first hit the screens in 1980. With its fantastic rhythm and blues music and quotable lines, it became a cult classic. The trilby hats, suits, and dark glasses of Jake and Elwood […]
REVIEW: Les Misérables – Stirring, empowering, heart-breaking, and rousing
Les Misérables TOUR. The Company. Photo Danny Kaan Venue: Milton Keynes Theatre Performance Date: 29 April 2022 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★★1/2 There are few musicals that truly stand the test of time, certainly not those who enjoy continued and unadulterated success. Les Misérables is one such musical. Still a stalwart of the West end, […]
REVIEW: Footloose – it’s got the motor but still needs the key…
Oonagh Cox (Rusty), Jake Quickenden (Willard) and Lucy Munden (Ariel) in Footloose (Image: Mark Senior) Venue: The Alexandra Birmingham Performance Date: 19 April 2022 Reviewer: Ely King Star Rating: ★★★1/2 Everybody knows the iconic song Footloose, the title track of the 1984 film of the same name starring Lori Singer and a youthful Kevin Bacon. There […]
REVIEW: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – A show just as dazzling as his coat of many colours
Jason Donovan & company in JATATD (Credit Tristram Kenton) Venue: Birmingham Hippodrome Performance Date: 06 April 2022 Reviewer: Ely King Star Rating: ★★★★★ Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a production that many have seen, or experienced, in school plays, however, to see it on a large stage is such a phenomenal experience and definitely […]
REVIEW: Fatal Attraction – A tempting, thought-provoking thriller
Oliver Farnworth and Susie Amy in Fatal Attraction Tour Credit: Tristram Kenton Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 05 April 2022 Reviewer: Jo Neville Star Rating: ★★★1/2 When Fatal Attraction opened in 1987 it soon became the film everyone was talking about. The psychological thriller terrified cinema audiences earned multiple Oscar nominations, and took more than […]
REVIEW: Kinky Boots – it may not have the West End budget, but it has the talent, dedication, and passion
Venue: Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke Performance Date: 29 March 2022 Reviewer: Leyla Demirel The fun, positive and joyous show that is Kinky Boots is the perfect thing to bring smiles to everyone’s faces after the dark period we’ve all had, and Basingstoke’s Amateur Dramatic Operatic Society is providing exactly that to Basingstoke this week. Running from the […]
NEWS: Ladies, gentlemen & those who are yet to make up their minds… Basingstoke Amateur Operatic Society (BAOS) gear up to present Kinky Boots
By Leyla Demirel Soon to be running their latest musical production, Kinky Boots, Basingstoke Amateur Operatic Society (BAOS) are throwing everything they have into rehearsals before their opening night at the Haymarket Theatre in Basingstoke on the 30th March. And if the rehearsals are anything to go by, the full show itself will be a […]
REVIEW: The Osmonds – A gloriously nostalgic trip down memory lane
Venue: Wolverhampton Grand Theatre Performance Date: 15 March 2022 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★★1/2 For modern day audiences The Osmonds might not be particularly familiar. However, if you were to imagine a hybrid of the Jackson 5 and the hysteria that a young One Direction yielded when they rose to prominence, then that might go some way […]
REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast is a dazzling revival of this tale as old as time and quite frankly… If it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it
Nigel Richards as Cogsworth, Sam Bailey as Mrs Potts, Gavin Lee as Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast – Photo by Johan Persson © Disney Venue: Birmingham Hippodrome Performance Date: 09 March 2022 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★★★ Disney is enjoying somewhat of a UK stage renaissance of late. With Frozen, and Mary Poppins […]
REVIEW : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – See the Lion and hear him roar
Chris Jared as Aslan (Image: Brinkhoff-Moegenburg) Venue: The Alexandra, Birmingham Performance Date: 08 March 2022 Reviewer: Ely King Star Rating: ★★★★ Many may know the story of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe from the best-selling books by C.S Lewis, or by movie trilogy The Chronicles of Narnia. Watching the stage adaptation takes you back to […]