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Here you can see the reviews for Christmas time films which are already on Let’s Go To The Movies, and you may well see more which I will watch over the festive period!
If you would like to request a film to review or a Christmas style list to make please let me know and I would be more than happy to put it together!
Awards season goes on this time in the Theatre world with the nominees being announced for the Olivier Awards which celebrate the West End (similar to the Tony Awards for Broadway). Obviously having managed to get down to London twice to see Gypsy I will certainly be rooting for that to win all the awards it has been nominated for!
Best New Musical
Bend It Like Beckham
In the Heights
Mrs Henderson Presents
Kinky Boots
Best Musical Revival
Gypsy
Bugsy Malone
Guys and Dolls
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Continue reading “Theatre: Olivier Awards 2016 – Nominations”
In 2015 I managed to catch a record breaking 20 musicals and plays on stage in both the North East (Sunderland Empire or Theatre Newcastle) as well as trips to London to see them in the West End. You can read through the normal list 2015 Theatre. This number was certainly boosted by the Wicked UK Tour visiting Sunderland which I just had to go and see more than once, three times to be exact. This was also down to getting some fantastic deals with ATG Theatre Card, as for less popular touring shows at the Sunderland Empire I do get some discounts. This is nice and means you can buy last minute tickets for some shows, obviously depending on how popular they are.
The show I mentioned in my 2014 at the Theatre you know just the small one starring Imelda Staunton . . . Gypsy I went to see twice in London! Let’s say goodbye to 2015 . . .
As I was watching A Christmas Carol I really thought I recognise that actor, it was doing my head in to what he was out of (I’d lost my programme and hadn’t even given it a look at all before hand). So it wasn’t until after that I found out he was actually Smee in that awful Pan film that was out this year! Maybe it was best that I didn’t remember which film I had remembered him from recently in that case haha.
He was really good signing autographs and taking photos at the stage door though!
I had a bit of a nightmare on Wednesday that when I went to watch A Christmas Carol I left the programme I bought in the toilets! So I did not have it to get signed at the stage door. So I had to get my ticket signed instead.
To make it all more disappointing Jim Broadbent said no photos, which I was really surprised about as had seen quite a few on twitter with fans at the stage door. Must have caught him on an off day?
Cast
Scrooge – Jim Broadbent
Adeel Akhtar
Amelia Bullmore
Keir Charles
Samantha Spiro
Jack Parker
Kim Scope
Show Date: Wednesday 16th December 2015 (2pm)
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I know some people will be complaining that I have never actually seen the original film but Richard Attenborough is my Santa. My perfect Santa. I am a 90s kid after all, so who else could be?
20. White Christmas (1954)
Does it really get any more Christmassy than this? Probably not.
I have felt inspired to have a musical moment today as I am putting together a post on Jim Broadbent as my excitement is growing to head to see him as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol on 16th December (which will be my last Theatre show of 2015). So I have decided to celebrate two of his fantastic musical moments in Moulin Rouge!
The Show Must Go On – a rather serious moment which sums up exactly what they all must do!
Here you can see the reviews for Christmas time films which are already on Let’s Go To The Movies, and you may well see more which I will watch over the festive period!
A Christmas Carol (2009) Review
All I Want For Christmas (1991) Review
Arthur Christmas (2011) Review
Holiday in Handcuffs (2007) Review
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) Review
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Review
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Review
The Polar Express (2004) Review
The Santa Clause (1994) Review
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) Review
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) Review
Other posts!
Take a look at things that make a good Christmas film.
Let's Go To The Movies 