Phil Willmott
20 Mar
News 
What’s it Like to Close Down A Show? Part 1
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 20 2020, 07:43
By now everyone reading this will have been affected by our virus and will be facing anxiety-educing financial uncertainty and huge logistical issues simply getting from day to day. The problems and feelings of theatre makers are an irrelevant drop in the ocean of this huge crisis.
19 Mar
News
THRILLER LIVE! Becomes the Latest West End Casualty of the Corona Virus
By Phil Willmott Thursday, March 19 2020, 22:28
As you’ll know by now attempts to contain the spread of the Coronavirus have led to theatres all over the world closing and, of course the West End has been no exception.
06 Mar
News
Has Coronavirus Delayed the Ball?
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 6 2020, 11:58
News just in - Andrew Lloyd Webber has delayed the opening of his new musical, a radical adaptation of Cinderella.
The stated reason is “the current global circumstances ” but I think we can intemperate that as meaning concern that the on-going coronavirus health crisis could close down theatreland (a highly unlikely worst case scenario - it’s only flu) but it may prove to be a deterrent to cautious or ill informed people travelling into the West End.
28 Feb
News
New Figures Reveal West End Theatre is Thriving
By Phil Willmott Friday, February 28 2020, 13:09
West End producers are far more secretive about box office figures than their Broadway counterparts. In New York every Broadway production publishes details of how a show is doing on a weekly basis. If you’re a theatre geek it can make fascinating reading. You can access everything at https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm
28 Feb
Reviews
Review: THE PRINCE OF EGYPT at the Dominion Theatre
By Phil Willmott Friday, February 28 2020, 11:45
The vast stage of the Dominion Theatre is a tough nut to crack and a number of sprawling musicals have spluttered to life for short runs there recently. Next up is THE PRINCE OF EGYPT based on an animated film from DreamWorks which I confess I’ve never seen. It’s what Hollywood used to call a biblical epic and tells the story of Moses, he of the slave exodus from Egypt, parting of the Red Sea, the plagues, burning bush etc.
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