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Andrew O'Hagan

quoteAn awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurancequote

Andrew O'Hagan 2012 Theatre

Fiona Mountford

quoteThe show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie Cquote

Fiona Mountford Blood Brothers Music

John Aizlewood

quoteThe British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeedquote

John Aizlewood Muse

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Rachel Dalziel

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Raja, London

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Katy, London

quoteAlways been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!quote

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Sister Act

Nun fun is heavenly in Sister Act

Whether or not divine intervention is involved, Sister Act is a wimple-wibbling, habit-forming triumph... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Calendar Girls

Make a date with the Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls is a chance to enjoy displays of prudery, coyness and vulgarity, a mixed cocktail of character-traits that remains forever English... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Priscilla Queen Of The Desert

Wild ride for Priscilla Queen Of The Desert

London has never played host to a musical pitched on a higher level of gayness and camp comedy than this ingenious adaptation of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Thriller

Jackson show has thrills but no plot

Thriller Live is a concert performance by a number of “lead vocalists” and astoundingly agile dancers rather than a musical... more |  Add your review 

 

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Theatre Oliver!

Oliver! needs more of a twist

What kept the first-nighters teetering on the verge of delighted hysteria throughout the almost £5 million extravaganza that is Oliver!?. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Carousel

Take an enchanting turn on a vivid and poignant Carousel

Nicholas de Jongh was enchanted by Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel; a bitter-sweet musical fantasy about missed life-chances... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre La Clique

La Clique clicks into place

La Clique, a cool circus and burlesque hybrid, has been a festival hit around the world and it finally debuts in London at the Hippodrome... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre The Four Seasons

Frankie goes to the West End...but will he last four seasons?

Broadway triumph Jersey Boys is well-written and a refreshing change from usual rock 'n' roll tribute musicals... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Hairspray

Big hair, big fun... and a huge new star

Hairspray, a musical about sex, love and civil rights, sends the rare, sweet smell of success wafting through the Shaftesbury, says Nicholas de Jongh... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Summer Strallen in The Sound of Music

Pure-voiced and girlish, new Maria lacks passion

After Connie Fisher, her successor in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Sound of Music, Summer Strallen, comes as something of an anti-climax, says Nicholas de Jongh... more |  Add your review 

 

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Theatre Grease

Grease is under-sexed, under-done and under par

The craze for turning the public into a nation of casting directors has not worked with Grease. Is it not high time producers found real stars for musicals again, asks Nicholas de Jongh... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Avenue Q: A sleazy Sesame Street for adults

A seedier Sesame Street

This affectionate adult spoof of Sesame Street is a one-joke show. Unlike the upbeat, educational characters of the TV series, Avenue Q's puppets tell racist jokes, screw around and download porn... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Dirty Dancing

You're sure to have a ball

The musical version of Dirty Dancing has little of the film's pelvic-thrust dancing but offers something distinct and more intimate than the celluloid experience, says Nicholas de Jongh... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Albin (Douglas Hodge) and Georges (Philip Quast)

Farce with flounce

Even in our age of civil partnerships, Jerry Herman's farcical musical comedy La Cage aux Folles wrestles alluringly with a dilemma that could induce shudders of gay anxiety today... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Billy Elliot catches you in its fervent grasp

A Billy dazzler

Billy Elliot The Musical is just irresistible. It catches you in its fervent grasp, and pins you down with all the artfulness of a vintage seducer, right to the misguided, sentimental finale... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre The 39 Steps

A slight Hitch in the plot

The 39 Steps played for laughs? It doesn't take much tweaking and this production is full of fun, but it is hard to avoid the feeling that it should be in Edinburgh rather than London at the... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre We Will Rock You

Queen musical still rocks

It is a miracle to some, an awful aberration to others. But We Will Rock You is a West End success... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Lion King

Lion King is a roaring success

Disney's stage version of The Lion King bursts into life in a blaze of glory, casting a spell on the Lyceum... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

Opinion is divided as to whether Mamma Mia! can turn hit Abba songs into an entertaining musical... more |  Add your review 

 
 
 


 
 
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