Cabaret is set in Berlin in 1931 in the underworld of clubs, particularly, The Kit Kat Klub. It’s New Year’s Eve and midnight is about to strike when American author, […]
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Tag: musical
Annie – Edinburgh Playhouse
As a wide-eyed ten-year-old who loved musical theatre, Annie was the bread and butter of my childhood. I even had an Annie-themed musical theatre party where my friends and I all sang ‘Hard Knock Life’. So imagine my excitement at hearing that Annie was touring nationally this year.
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Big: The Musical
Big, at the Dominion Theatre in London, is based on the 1988 American film starring Tom Hanks. Oftentimes adapting a musical from a film can lead to less convincing scores and a feeling of shoehorning a plot into a musical setting.
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Eye Of The Storm – King’s Theatre
This September, Theatre Na nÓg brings a delightfully different musical to the King’s Theatre in the form of “Eye of The Storm”.
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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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Cathy: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights – Edinburgh Fringe
This retelling of Wuthering Heights is sadly a confusing, rushed affair, that seems to offer no further development on the characters than in the original.
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