Kiln Theatre’s Blues In the Night cast announced
Sharon D Clarke, Debbie Kurup, Clive Rowe and Gemma Sutton are to star in Susie McKenna’s production of Blues In The Night at the Kiln Theatre this July.
Gemma Sutton
REVIEW: The Rink, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭
Douglas Mayo reviews Kander and Ebb’s The Rink starring Caroline O’Connor and Gemma Sutton now playing at Southwark Playhouse.
FIRST LOOK: Rehearsals for Kander and Ebb’s The Rink at Southwark Playhouse
Check out these great rehearsal photos from the rehearsal rooms of Kander and Ebb’s The Rink starring Caroline O’Connor and Gemma Sutton at the Southwark Playhouse. Kander and Ebb’s musical The Rink gets its first London revival in 20 years at Southwark Playhouse from 25 May 201 The Rink stars Caroline O’Connor as Anna and Gemma Sutton as Angel, the cast also includes Stewart Clarke as Dino, Ross Dawes as Lino, Michael Lin as Lucky, Elander Moore as Benny, Ben Redfern as Lenny and Jason Winter as Tony. Anna, an Italian housewife who runs a roller-skating rink on the Eastern seaboard, is about to sell it to developers until her estranged daughter, Angel, returns after a long absence, hoping to save the rink and patch things up with her mother. The Rink is directed by Adam Lenson with choreography by Fabian Aloise and is produced by Jack Maple and Brian … Read more
Full Cast Announced For Kander and Ebb’s The Rink At Southwark Playhouse
Full casting has been announced for Kander and Ebb’s musical The Rink at Southwark Playhouse. Book Now!
REVIEW: A Christmas Carol, Lyceum Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
A Christmas Carol London Musical Theatre Orchestra Lyceum Theatre, 11th December 2017 5 Stars Book Tickets Seeing this sprawling, grand, majestic musical entertainment again in the once splendid surroundings of Bertie Crewe’s opulently spacious rococo interior (behind Beazley’s proudly neo-classical facade), with the full resources of the LMTO massed on stage, complete with a chorus and a line up of superb soloists, all in evening dress, flanked by a brace of sparkling Christmas trees, and beneath the trademark red banners of this specialist orchestra, in this melodramatic, sentimental story of vice and redemption, it is easy to think that there is rather more of nineteenth century French grande-opera about it than the conventional trappings and concerns of Broadway showbiz. Hearing Alan Menken’s stunning score, given lush and vivid life in Michael Starobin’s gorgeous orchestrations, it is easy to imagine oneself back in the world of Meyerbeer, Gounod and Berlioz, where … Read more
Stars announced for Other Palace musical theatre festival
West End stars have been announced for a festival of musical theatre at The Other Palace in London, headlined by the premiere of a new show co-written by Burt Bacharach.
Casting Announced For Strictly Ballroom
Get set to Samba this Christmas as the stage version of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom waltzes into the West Yorkshire Playhouse for it’s UK premiere. Based on the Australian hit film, Strictly Ballroom is the story of a championship balroom dancer who defies the rules to follow his heart. This bright, colourful and sometimes gawdy musical features great numbers like Love Is In The Air, Time After Time and Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps, as well as new songs written by internationally acclaimed artsists like Sia, David Foster and Eddie Perfect. Leading the cast of Strictly Ballroom are Gemma Sutton (The Go Between, Gypsy), and Sam Lips (Broadway – Pippin & Wicked) who is making his UK debut. Starring alongside them are two familiar faces from West Yorkshire Playhouse’s 2015 production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Tamsin Carroll (Miss Saigon) and Stephen Matthews (The Lion King) who will play Shirley and … Read more
REVIEW: The Go-Between, Apollo Theatre ✭✭
Apparently The Go-Between started life as a play, and for once the book here, written by David Wood, is not the problem here. The Go Between fails because of its score, which fails at every hurdle. If you are going to The Go-Between to hear Michael Crawford perform Phantom(ish) songs you will be sorely disappointed.
