REVIEW: Return To The Forbidden Planet, Upstairs At The Gatehouse ✭✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews Bob Carlton’s musical Return To The Forbidden Planet presented by Ovation Productions Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
Return To The Forbidden Planet
Casting Announced For Forbidden Planet Upstairs At The Gatehouse
Casting has been announced for Ovation Productions production of Bob Carlton’s Return To The Forbidden Planet which is being presented Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
REVIEW: Return To The Forbidden Planet, UK Tour ✭✭✭
It is a jukebox full of lively hit after hit just some of which are Great Balls of Fire, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Good Vibrations, Young Girl and She’s Not There. On the one hand, there is the joy of identifying the Shakespearean quotes or mis-quotes (“To Beep or not to Beep” is a crowd favourite). On the other hand, the Science Fiction idiocy provides a great potential for fun. It’s a completely silly story, complete with silly costumes, that shamelessly bastardises Shakespeare’s words in a goofy, nerdy Sci-Fi way while banging out Hit Parade tunes loudly and wholeheartedly
Return To The Forbidden Planet Starts 2015 UK Tour
CLICK FOR THE FORBIDDEN PLANET TOUR DATES BELOW The Olivier-Award winning rock spectacular Return To The Forbidden Planet is back and exploding onto stages across the UK in a major new production to celebrate the shows 25th anniversary. Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and packed with rock n’ roll classics including Great Balls of Fire, This is a Man’s World, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Who’s Sorry Now, Teenager in Love, Young Girl, Heard It Through the Grapevine, Johnny B. Goode and Born To Be Wild, Return to the Forbidden Planet is a musical of meteoric proportions that will be remembered for light years to come. With stunning special effects, a brilliant cast of actor-musicians, a mad scientist, a huge green-tentacled monster and a rock ’n’ roller-skating robot, your in-flight entertainment is guaranteed! So fasten your seatbelts, set your ray guns to stun and prepare for blast off! Return to … Read more
