United Kingdom Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: Cast, Chorus and Band of Northern Ireland Opera and Lyric Theatre / Sinead Hayes (Conductor), Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 6.2.2019. (RB)
A Superb Production of Sweeney Todd in Belfast
Theatre
The Global Phenomenon Notre Dame de Paris Makes a Captivating Return to London
United Kingdom Notre Dame de Paris (Richard Cocciante [music] and Luc Plamondon [lyrics]): Singers, Dancers, Musicians, Acrobats and Break Dancers of the Notre Dame de Paris Company, English National Opera Orchestra / Matthew Brind (conductor). London Coliseum, 23.1.2019. (JPr)
Simon Callow’s Uplifting, Yet Thought-Provoking, New Film Version of A Christmas Carol
United Kingdom 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)
The New One: A Brilliant Birbiglia on the Couch with Baby
United States Mike Birbiglia’s The New One: Cort Theatre, New York. 19.11.2018. (CSa)
For Only An Hour is Something Rather Memorably ‘Rich and Strange’
United Kingdom Sardoville’s For Only An Hour with Phil Sanger: The Blue Elephant Theatre, London, 16.11.2018. (JO’D)
Comedy in Music from Rainer Hersch’s Entertaining Memories of Victor Borge
United Kingdom Rainer’s Hersch’s Victor Borge: Rainer Hersch with Danny Driver (piano), Laura Ruhl Vidal (soprano). Cadogan Hall, London, 12.10.2018. (JPr)
Weathering the Storm: Zeller’s Mystery Provides More Questions than Answers
United Kingdom Florian Zeller, The Height of the Storm (translated by Christopher Hampton): Wyndham’s Theatre, London. 7.10.2018. (CSa)
John Wilson’s On the Town with Talented Cast and Outstanding LSO is a Worthy Tribute to Bernstein
United Kingdom Prom 57 – On the Town (Music by Leonard Bernstein, Book and Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) concert performance: Soloists, Students from ArtsEd, London Symphony Orchestra / John Wilson (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 25.8.2018. (JPr)
