The musical based on the music of Bob Dylan is back in the West End following sell out successes at The Old Vic and The Noel Coward theatre last year.
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Tag: musical theatre
On Your Feet! – Festival Theatre
We all know the words – ‘come on, shake your body, baby, do that conga, I know you can’t control yourself any longer…’ – it undoubtedly gets you moving. ‘On Your Feet!’, a new musical chronicling the lives of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, shimmied into Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre.
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Henry Box Brown – Edinburgh Fringe
‘Henry Box Brown’ adapts the true story of a slave who mailed himself to freedom, rendered through glorious vocals and ensemble numbers.
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Unfortunate – Edinburgh Fringe
Fat Rascal are undoubtedly leading the way for British comedy musicals, and their latest venture into the world of satirical song-writing sees them mine the depths of the ocean to tell the untold tail (ha) of Ursula, the notorious sea witch from The Little Mermaid.
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Space Junk: A Soviet Musical
I went into this show with the idea that it could help me learn more for work – part of my day job involves educating young people about the Space Race – but then the first man in space was brutally assaulted by a bottle of vodka (no, not wielded as a weapon, an actual bottle with sentience and everything specifically targets him) and I realised that some aspects of astronaut life are better glossed over for the kiddos.
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Shreds: The Jack the Ripper Musical – Edinburgh Fringe
‘Shreds: The Jack the Ripper Musical’ exposes the underbelly of London in the 19th century, and the bloody danger that swept through its back alleys, targeting sex workers.
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