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REVIEW: Chicago, New Wimbledon Theatre (UK Tour) ✭✭✭✭✭

Douglas Mayo25th February 2016 Reviews, Touring

Chicago New Wimbledon Theatre 23rd February 2016 5 Stars UK Tour – Buy Tickets Having Razzle Dazzled the UK for years Chicago is back on tour around the UK, and this current production is set to remind us why this incredible score by John Kander and Fred Ebb is considered a classic of its time. Set in prohibition-era Chicago (1920’s), the musical is based on a play by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, and loosely based on the crimes she covered for her paper. When it originally opened on Broadway, the show ran for a respectable 936 performances, it was only when revived in 1996, that the show proved to be a massive hit – Chicago had come of age and this story of greed, corruption celebrity criminals and trial by media took the world by storm. The West End revival ran for nearly 15 years, becoming the longest-running American musical … Read more

REVIEW: Sinatra – The Man And His Music, London Palladium ✭✭✭✭

Douglas Mayo25th February 201620th July 2015 Reviews, West End

Sinatra – The Man And His Music at the London Palladium is not your normal West End musical. It is a very different beast indeed. Perhaps best described as a multi-media spectacular, it takes footage of Sinatra’s performances over his entire career, applies a live orchestra and adds twenty dancers to the mix to create something rather special.

Sinatra – Cast and Creative Team Announced

Douglas Mayo25th February 201625th June 2015 News, West End

Sinatra The Man And His Music at the London Palladium

Karl Sydow, the award-winning producer behind Our Country’s Good, Dirty Dancing and Backbeat has today announced his cast and creative team for the multimedia presentation Sinatra – The Man And His Music which is to be staged at the London Palladium starting on 10 July 2015. Featuring an on-stage orchestra of 24 and 20 dancers, this extraordinary presentation has led Nancy Sinatra to state that “The Palladium show will be as close as we can get to a live Frank Sinatra concert.” Sinatra The Man & His Music at the London Palladium is a completely unique celebration of the Frank Sinatra’s legacy. The high-tech show features 3D, rotoscoped imagery, rare and never before seen footage from the family’s archives and original masters of Frank Sinatra’s voice, to bring the great man back to the stage of the London Palladium – the first venue Sinatra played anywhere outside of the US. … Read more