The Wolsey hold the record for the longest running pantomime in the UK, so you’ve plenty of time to go up the gang plank to the Saucy Sausage; it’s a ride you will thoroughly enjoy!
Situated on The Broadway in Wimbledon, London, the New Wimbledon Theatre was built by the entrepreneur and theatre lover J B Mulholland. Designed by Cecil Aubrey Massey and Roy Young, the Grade II listed Edwardian Theatre might be the only theatre to have included a Victorian-style Turkish bath in the basement. The New Wimbledon Theatre opened on 26 December 1910 with Jack and Jill, a traditional pantomime. The theatre most famously was home to the World Premieres of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! which then transferred to the Albery (now the Noel Coward) Theatre and Tommy Steele in Half A Sixpence prior to its West End transfer. With 1670 seats over three levels, the New Wimbledon is in the ten largest theatres in London. During its lifetime it has undergone two major refurbishments in 1991 and 1998. The theatre also has a studio space which adjoins the main auditorium seating up to … Read more
Broadway leading lady Laura Osnes will join Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn will make their UK concert debuts in a one night only evening celebrating Frank’s music entitled An Evening with Frank Wildhorn and Friends on Tuesday 22 November 2016 at The Palace Theatre, Manchester. Tickets are on sale now. Frank Wildhorn has been a composer of musical theatre including Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, Bonnie & Hyde and The Scarlett Pimpernell, and pop songs including Whitney Houston’s Where Do Broken Hearts Go? Frank’s musical Wonderland, a modern take on Alice In Wonderland, will tour the UK in 2017. Laura Osnes originated the title role in the recent Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella and starred in the Broadway production of Frank’s Bonnie and Clyde. Joining Laura and Frank are Jackie Burns who starred as Elphaba in the first ever US tour of Wicked, German musical theatre star Thomas Borchert who … Read more
Falling far short of the biting satire of Oh What A Lovely War and Blackadder Goes Forth, the play is an effective tribute to an extraordinary publication, and there are some moving moments that capture the fear and homesickness of the soldiers.
Mel Brooks has announced that his musical Young Frankenstein is heading to the UK. Based on his 1974 of the same name, Young Frankenstein will open at the Newcastle Theatre Royal for a limited pre-West End engagement from 26 August to 9 September 2017, before opening in London’s West End in Autumn 2017. Following a limited Broadway run, Young Frankenstein is being re-worked. Brooks will work with co-writer Thomas Meehan and collaborate with Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman for for this all-singing all-dancing new production. Young Frankenstein, the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic, see’s Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherit a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his deranged genius grandfather, Victor Von Frankenstein. He now faces a dilemma – does he continue to run from his family’s tortured past or does he stay in Transylvania to carry on his grandfather’s … Read more
The Only Way is Shakespeare? Staged in contemporary Essex in a garrison town, (not very subtly hinting that it takes place in Colchester), this production manages to misfire on just about every level.
Nicely abridged, with the tiresome Touchstone being eliminated, this is a very entertaining production.
Director Douglas Rintoul places it in the hands of an exceptional ensemble of actor-musicians, and the result is a joyful and powerful evening celebrating equal rights. Based on the film of the same name, the musical charts the determination, humour, defiance and skills of the women at the Ford Dagenham car plant who strike for equal pay in 1968.
