REVIEW: Bare, The Vaults London ✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews pop opera Bare by Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere now playing at The Vaults in London.
Julian Eaves reviews pop opera Bare by Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere now playing at The Vaults in London.
Yes, this whole show – hastily put together in barely a week – might well shine a bit more with a little more rehearsal and polish, but the ending is full of optimistic verve and good cheer.
All in all, [title of show] is simple, straightforward entertainment and an affectionate look at the process of just putting on a performance. As the characters, themselves remark – who says four chairs and a keyboard can’t make a musical?
One of the more original musicals seen in recent times is coming to the Waterloo East Theatre. [Title Of Show], with music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and Book by Hunter Bell will play for a limited season in September presented by SR Productions. [Title of Show] has music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell. The musical received a Tony Nomination for the best book of a musical. [Title of show] began life in 2004 as an entry into New York’s Musical Theatre Festival. With three weeks to go before the submission deadline, and knee-deep in balled-up show ideas, the struggling writer-composers decided to write a musical about two struggling writer-composers trying to write a musical with the help of their two best friends. In short it’s a musical about two guys writing a musical with countless musical theatre references. It’s a show that feels like a rummage … Read more
The original creators can be proud; I Sing! is a wonderful show with a wonderful cast and deserves to find a home for longer than the scheduled week.
I Sing, is a five person musical about coming of age in New York City, a hilarious, honest and heart warming musical that centres around five people learning about who they are, love, loss, sex and friendship. There’s the supposed happy couple, the best friend with a secret crush, the fun loving single city girl and her gay best friend questioning his sexuality. It’s Friends and Will & Grace meets the contemporary musical stylings of The Last 5 Years, Ordinary Days and Avenue Q. Filled with comedy songs, power ballads, amazing harmonies and goose bump inducing emotion. The cast of I Sing includes Malindi Freeman, Eleanor Sandars, Steffan Lloyd-Evans, Louie Westwood and Daniel Mack Shand. I Sing has music by Eli Bolin, Lyrics by Sam Forman, Book by Eli Bolin, Sam Forman and Benjamin Salka. I Sing will be directed by Glenn Gaunt, with musical direction by Daniel Jarvis and … Read more