Griff Rhys Jones is Superb as Scrooge in LMTO’s Joyous A Christmas Carol
20/12/2018
LMTO – A Christmas Carol (Mike Ockrent [book], Lynn Ahrens [book and lyrics] and Alan Menken [music]): Soloists, London Music Theatre Chorus and Orchestra / Freddie Tapner (conductor). Lyceum Theatre, London, 17.12.2018. (JPr)
LMTO’s A Christmas Carol – ‘Abundance and Charity’
Simon Callow’s Uplifting, Yet Thought-Provoking, New Film Version of A Christmas Carol
13/12/2018
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow: Adaptation by Tom Cairns and Simon Callow; Production designed by Marie Lanna; Cinematography by David Raedeker. Screened at Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 11.12.2018. (JPr)
Simon Callow in A Christmas Carol
Sweeney Todd, like his Customers and Meat Pies, Goes Down a Treat in Zurich
11/12/2018
Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: Soloists, Chorus of Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / David Charles Abell (conductor), Zurich Opera 9.12.2018. (JR)
The New One: A Brilliant Birbiglia on the Couch with Baby
25/11/2018
Mike Birbiglia’s The New One: Cort Theatre, New York. 19.11.2018. (CSa)
Mike Birbiglia in The New One
For Only An Hour is Something Rather Memorably ‘Rich and Strange’
18/11/2018
Sardoville’s For Only An Hour with Phil Sanger: The Blue Elephant Theatre, London, 16.11.2018. (JO’D)
Phil Sanger in For Only An Hour
Bernstein’s Candide Triumphs at the Liceu
21/10/2018
Bernstein, Candide (concert version): Liceu Chorus and Orchestra /John DeMain (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 18.10.2018. (JMI)
Meghan Picerno and Paul Appleby in Candide © A. Bofill
Comedy in Music from Rainer Hersch’s Entertaining Memories of Victor Borge
16/10/2018
Rainer’s Hersch’s Victor Borge: Rainer Hersch with Danny Driver (piano), Laura Ruhl Vidal (soprano). Cadogan Hall, London, 12.10.2018. (JPr)
Rainer Hersch © Hans Staartjes
Weathering the Storm: Zeller’s Mystery Provides More Questions than Answers
14/10/2018
Florian Zeller, The Height of the Storm (translated by Christopher Hampton): Wyndham’s Theatre, London. 7.10.2018. (CSa)
Jonathan Pryce & Eileen Atkins in The Height of the Storm (c) Tristram Kenton
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