A modern fairytale in which John McCrea’s Jamie is a force of nature
Month: November 2017
Privates on Parade, Union Theatre, London ★★★
Reviewed for Musical Theatre Review: Those of us who grew up in the 1970s will remember the BBC sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft about a group of Second World War entertainers getting up to all sorts deep in India and Burma. Peter Nichols’ 1977 play Privates on…
Flashdance, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★
Reviewed for The Reviews Hub: In the pantheon of 1980s movies, Flashdance has achieved cult status far exceeding its own gaudy ambitions. The tale of a welding apprentice who supplements her meagre wages from a Pittsburgh steel firm by dancing in a local club, but who has ambitions to enrol at the local ballet school, mines every…
Big Fish, The Other Palace, London ★★★★★
Andrew Lippa’s musical about father-son relations and the power of myth warms the heart
Hairspray, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★★½
Perhaps the most sweet-natured take on a John Waters film one could possibly imagine
The Railway Children, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★½
The touring production of the children’s classic has all the charm of a replacement bus service
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