musicals
The Seckerson Tapes: Nigel RichardsMonday, 19 October 2009Edward Seckerson talks to actor/singer Nigel Richards about his new album A Shining Truth - a handsome compendium of 14 hitherto unrecorded musical theatre songs by major talents as Howard Goodall, Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, Conor Mitchell... Read more... |
Annie Get Your Gun, Young VicSaturday, 17 October 2009
What, you mean you didn't know that Annie Oakley, the American sharpshooter whose career hit its stride in the 1880s, was honoured by Winston Churchill but had no use for Adolf Hitler? Then you've been spending too little time in the ever-eccentric... Read more... |
Production Gallery: Annie Get Your Gun, Young VicFriday, 16 October 2009Keith Pattison took photographs of Richard Jones's new production of Annie Get Your Gun for the Young Vic. Read Matt Wolf's review here.Click on a photograph to enter full view. [bg|/THEATRE/young_vic_annie] All photographs for the Young Vic by... Read more... |
Love Never Dies: The LaunchThursday, 08 October 2009The sealed invitation was from the man himself: no, not Andrew Lloyd Webber (who can, as we know, work in mysterious ways) but the Phantom. Nightly (and twice on Tuesdays and Saturdays) he vanishes from his underground lair deep in the bowels of the... Read more... |
Michael Ball, Royal Albert HallSaturday, 19 September 2009“If you feel like singing along... don’t.” Michael Ball knows his audience – I mean, really knows his audience - and only he could turn a rebuke into a well-timed gag. About that audience: the age range is a good half-century but at its heart are... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Lyricist Tim RiceFriday, 11 September 2009
Sir Tim Rice (b. 1944) will always be inextricably known as Andrew Lloyd Webber's original - and best - lyricist. They met in 1965 and promptly wrote a musical - The Likes of Us - which has never been professionally staged. Of the three which have... Read more... |
No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de MilleTuesday, 08 September 2009
In dance heaven, poor Agnes de Mille is resigned to being jostled by nobler colleagues. "Sprightly but peripheral" was her own assessment of her work, yet, with her 1942 ballet Rodeo and her musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, Brigadoon and more, she... Read more... |
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