Whether or not divine intervention is involved, Sister Act is a wimple-wibbling, habit-forming triumph... more | Add your review (11)
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 (3)
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 (13)
Thriller Live is a concert performance by a number of “lead vocalists” and astoundingly agile dancers rather than a musical... more | Add your review (9)
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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 (9)
Nicholas de Jongh was enchanted by Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel; a bitter-sweet musical fantasy about missed life-chances... more | Add your review (4)
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
Broadway triumph Jersey Boys is well-written and a refreshing change from usual rock 'n' roll tribute musicals... more | Add your review (8)
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 (5)
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 (5)
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 (20)
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 (10)
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 (5)
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 (3)
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 (2)
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
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 (5)
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 (1)
Opinion is divided as to whether Mamma Mia! can turn hit Abba songs into an entertaining musical... more | Add your review (1)
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