So you think you know everything about the West End? Take our quizzes and challenge the best!
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 21 2019, 10:53
Sean Foleys staging of the classic British film comedy, The Man in the White Suit, which recently opened to mixed reviews, adds to the West End’d long list of recent, current and forthcoming shows adapted from movies.
Here’s our just for fun quiz based on London’s current crop of celluloid adaptations, running, leaving and about to open in the capital.
By Phil Willmott Monday, March 18 2019, 09:51
The arrival of the delightful pie-baking musical WAITRESS to London has inspired our latest “just for fun” quiz about references to food in theatre.
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, December 4 2018, 09:16
It’s been announced that Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s first and most loveable musical JOSEPH AND AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT will return to the London Palladium next summer where it enjoyed a long and successful revival in the 1980s.
Few other details have been released yet so while we await news of casting and creatives here’s a Lloyd Webber quiz, just for fun.
By Phil Willmott Monday, August 27 2018, 13:50
Earlier last week Steve Markwick reported on a production of THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE starring a real-life mum and daughter combo. So, just for fun, here’s a quiz on other theatre families. Answers below.
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, June 14 2017, 21:31
It's been announced that Opera North's production of the classic Broadway musical Kiss me Kate will land at the vast Coliseum Theatre next year. This follows a tend set by the current hit production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Carousel, currently enjoying some great reviews at the same venue, more often home to poorly attended and often poorly reviewed opera.
This cavernous theatre really needs the appeal of great and well know musicals to help fill its thousands of seats and I'm not someone who disapproves or is snobby about this. The classic Broadway musical is worthy of just as much attention as the mainstays of the opera repertoire.
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