A quick snippet of a track from the brilliant Avenue Q, which describes pretty well how I feel about job hunting at the moment…
On a related note, the West End production of Avenue Q closes at the end of March. If you haven’t seen it, go now. If you have seen it, go again – [...]
Laura and I went to see the new London revival (ah – an oxymoron) of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat last Friday. It was the Children in Need gala performance, with all ticket proceeds going to charity – it was also the only show before February that still had tickets…
It was pretty awesome (Lee [...]
I was catching up on my podcasts on the bus to Montreal yesterday, including MusicalTalk (“the UK’s only independent musical theatre podcast”), which included a review of The Lord of the Rings.
As it appears I never actually finished my review of the show when I saw it in May, I suggest you listen to this. [...]
Two things before we start: I love musicals, and I hate TV talent and reality shows. I can’t stand The X Factor, Pop Idol, Big Brother and so on. I would much rather be sitting at the back of the Apollo Victoria. Past experience of TV talent shows suggest they’re no very good at picking [...]
It appears that I have not made a bloggy post in a week (apart from yesterday’s video – I started this post before that…). Oops. I don’t even have Rob’s excuse of, you know, working. I have been posting on Twitter, not that it’s much help…
Anyhoo, my desk seems to be rather a mess at [...]
I was muchly saddened this morning to hear of the passing of Ian Richardson, one of the UK’s greatest character actors of recent years. He died unexpectedly in his sleep, according to his agent.
He could always be counted on to bring a degree of gravitas to any role, from the grotesque Lord Groan in Gormenghast [...]
So, it looks like Connie won the BBC’s How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, the televised competition to find the Maria for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new production of the Sound of Music.
For a change, I think the right person has actually won one of these talent shows! She was clearly the best from [...]
Just a quick post to make sure that I don’t forget to write up Evita and Whistle Down the Wind from the 10th August. Otherwise, I’ll never remember. And that would be bad. Prod me.
No, not another Channel 4 greatest-ever films show. This was the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s Complete Hollywood (abridged) at the Theatre Royal Newcastle.
The RSC is very much a one-trick pony. They do the same thing, in much the same format, in all their shows: Shakespeare, the Bible, American history, classic books… and now the American film [...]