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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
Romantics Anonymous, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★★
Traditional, with a twist: the chocolatiers’ tale that serves as a metaphor for Emma Rice’s Globe tenure
Hair, The Vaults, London ★★★★★
Let the sun shine in with the 50th anniversary revival of this ground-breaking musical
All or Nothing: The Mod Musical, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★
Not exactly a Lazy Sunday, but…
Lucky Stiff, Union Theatre, London ★★★
Reviewed for Musical Theatre Review: If there’s one adjective which, when applied to musical theatre, fills one with a sense of trepidation, it’s “zany”. But that’s the only way to describe the first professionally produced collaboration between book writer and lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty, who would go on to create Once On…
Deathtrap, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★★½
Ira Levin’s postmodern comedy thriller entertains with its jumps, scares and laughs
Five Guys Named Moe, Marble Arch Theatre, London ★★★★
The jukebox musical revival gets the whole spiegeltent jumping
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