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Get out and get a seat when Chitty comes to a theatre near you. Take your kids or just go and revel in the enormous joy that resonates off the stage in waves. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will be entertaining young and old for a long time to come and who could want for more from a …
Douglas Mayo
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Clementine’s Seasonal Spectacular is certainly strange and unconventional. However, it also wonderfully original and made me laugh and smile more than any ot…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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Nutcracker! The Musical is a valiant effort that never quite sets out what it wanted to achieve. It’s not funny enough to be a panto or gripping enough to be…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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A lot of effort has been put into compiling this glorious book, giving one of the most comprehensive overviews of musicals (both on stage and on film), that …
Douglas Mayo
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Around the World in 80 Days is one of the classic tales by Jules Verne, who in the 19th century wrote epic stories of adventure and futuristic scenarios that…
Christine Firkin
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Ray Rackham’s play is infused with enormous passion for its subject, a woman who touched the lives of millions with her extraordinary singing and irrepressib…
Matthew Lunn
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Douglas Mayo
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Loserville is a production full of E numbers; bright and sweet but likely to overload you. It’s a derivative script and score made as good as it can get by s…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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This is a Xmas Special that doesn’t hammer home the same old Christmas songs ad nauseam. Instead it gives Blues Brothers enthusiasts plenty of the music they…
Christine Firkin
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Pantomimes have the potential to be uniquely excruciating. Children are merciless critics, and decades of expectation weigh heavily on poor productions. Such…
Matthew Lunn
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Loyal Disney viewers may feel they’ve seen it all before, but this version of Beauty and the Beast is charming and well performed. It’s running until Februar…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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Desperate Measures is exactly what fringe theatre should be - inventive, energetic and ambitious. It really is a must-see, especially if you want a non-panto…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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This was a delightful evening, bursting with talent at all points, and consistently enjoyable. It is good to be able to stand back sometimes and reflect on t…
Douglas Mayo
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Regardless of the format, theatre of telly, SpinCycle is a great piece of writing performed superbly by The Canting Crew. If only it were around for a longer…
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Despite these stark issues, the Cockpit Theatre is a wonderful space and the lighting was well deployed to create some tense moments. Bizarrely, someone in t…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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