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By Stuart King Monday, May 30 2022, 08:28
It could reasonably be asserted that Camille Saint-Saëns’ operatic treatment of the biblical Samson and Delilah story, received a decidedly cautious reception when its first sections were explored before an audience. Consequently, it was many years after work had begun, that a fully staged production was finally mounted at Weimar in 1877 — and only then with the vehement support and championing of Franz Liszt.
Samson et Dalila at the Royal Opera House. Photograph by Clive Barda
By Stuart King Friday, May 20 2022, 09:52
As a child, this reviewer heard countless plays of the household’s Lerner and Leowe musical albums: Camelot, Paint Your Wagon, Brigadoon and of course My Fair Lady (based on George Bernard Shaw’s playPygmalion). All, had been huge commercial stage successes, spawning sumptuously colourful film versions indelibly associated with the golden age of the Hollywood musical.
The company of My Fair Lady. Credit Marc Brenner.
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 18 2022, 10:02
Set at the fictional Rydell High, GREASE — the perennial first crush, school musical — has previously enjoyed long runs at London theatres in the early 1970s (before the film’s release) and again in the early 1990s. This year the show celebrates 50 years since it first appeared on Broadway and to mark the milestone, a new production directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by West End stalwart Arlene Phillips, has just opened at the Dominion Theatre.
By Stuart King Friday, May 13 2022, 12:39
Great Depression era outlaws Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were immortalised in the news reports of the day and subsequently in literature, songs and later still, the iconic 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. The Arts Theatre now plays host to the musical version of the romantic couple’s criminal exploits, which enjoyed a brief run on Broadway over a decade ago.
Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie) and Jordan Luke Gage (Clyde) in Bonnie & Clyde The Musical at the Arts Theatre.
By Stuart King Friday, May 13 2022, 11:32
It is entirely appropriate that the Theatre Lab Company are staging the playboy exploits of Molière’s famously unrepentant philanderer, at the quintessentially seedy and bohemian Vaults in Waterloo.
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