REVIEW: Chicago, Phoenix Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It’s great to see Chicago back in the West End. It’s certainly a show that enjoy revisiting every now and again and I’m sure that this revival will be a crowd pleaser.
It’s great to see Chicago back in the West End. It’s certainly a show that enjoy revisiting every now and again and I’m sure that this revival will be a crowd pleaser.
There is no doubt in my mind that Disaster! has everything needed to be a success in the West End. Judging from the audience reaction I would have thought it might already be on the cards!
The show runs for just under 90 minutes with a brief interval and had the attention of children throughout. Lots of audience response was called for and the children responded in droves. It is wonderful to look at the jam-packed London Palladium and think that the next generation of actors, composers and theatre folk might just have seen their first show. Brilliant!
Scooby-Doo Live! Musical Mysteries is coming to the London Palladium this month for its West End Premiere, and producers have announced the cast for the all new family musical. Scooby-Doo Live! Musical Mysteries has performed to sell-out audiences across North America, Europe, Mexico and the Middle East. The ghost-busting Mystery Inc. gang for the London Palladium features Charlie Bull (Elf the Musical, Legally Blonde the Musical, Singin in the Rain, Disney’s Cinderella film) as DAPHNE, Chris Warner Drake (Chicago, Ghost – Asia Tour, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) as FRED, Rebecca Withers (The Kissing Dance, Flight) as VELMA, Charlie Haskins (Macbeth – UK Tour, The Last Days of Mankind) as SHAGGY and Joe Goldie (Disneyland Paris) as the lovable SCOOBY-DOO. Completing the West End cast are John McManus (Top Hat, Sweeney Todd, Cats), Kate England (Rent, To Kill A Mockingbird), Matt Parsons … Read more