Today I found out that they’re putting on a 20th Anniversary Concert tour of the musical ‘RENT’ (my absolute favourite) to celebrate this classic being 20 years old. It’s a little bit of a cop-out (to be honest) as the show didn’t hit Broadway audiences properly until 1996, and the West End until 1997, however […]
It’s no real secret that one of my biggest guilty pleasures in the world of musical theatre is that I ADORE Sister Act The Musical, in spite of all its past sins. When it was playing in the West End, I went to see it at least six or seven times, and whilst I felt […]
I’m back on Gaydio on Sunday for round two, spending a very pleasant fifteen minutes chatting about theatre in and around Manchester at the moment!
A few people over the last few months have questioned why I have adverts on my site, and I just wanted to acknowledge this query directly on my site! 🙂 WordPress.com insist on putting what they call ‘discreet’ adverts from time to time on everybody’s posts in order to keep their site as free. They’re […]
I would like to give a shout out to Barefaced – a theatre company based in London, who are launching their season of three new plays under the title ‘A Significant Role’ in October 2012. The aim of the season is to put women centre-stage, and I think this is a marvellous ‘concept’ for a group of plays, and something that I, personally, would find really interesting to watch. There’s already so much that I can think of to say about it, and I’ve not even seen any of the plays yet!
Gari Wellingham 