Film and Theatre Lover!
Here I go with an overview of my 2016 of theatre trips to see musicals and plays. Touring shows that have come to the North East at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle and the Sunderland Empire. As well as managing to have a few trips down to London to take in what the West End has to offer! You can check out the list of shows here. I have somehow managed to out do 2015 catching 31 shows in 2016!
Do you hear the people sing? Let’s take a look back at my 2016 at the Theatre.
Cast
Raye Birk – Wayne
Kayli Carter – Flo
Bob Davis – The DNR Man
Jim Lichtscheidl – Erik
Mark Rylance – Ron
Mohsen Nouri – Lead Puppeteer
Venue: Harold Pinter Theatre
Date: Wednesday 21st December 2016 (2:30pm)
Today was my final theatre trio of the year to see Mark Rylance starring in the play he co-wrote Nice Fish (review to follow). Afterwards I headed to the stage door and was actually rather surprised that only two other people had decided to wait for him to come out.
As you probably noticed I went to London for a nice 3 day break last week, mainly because I had tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child something which I had booked nearly a full year before the actual date. I just so happened to book this on the same day that the BFI London Film Festival was going to be on, great timing! My original plan was to stay for 3 nights and get in as many films (and theatre) as possible. But due to cost I changed my mind on this as the hotel was pretty expensive.
Cast
Kerry Ellis – Sara
Ramin Karimloo – Tom
Victoria Hamilton-Barritt – Narrator
Norman Bowman – Michael
Venue: Arts Theatre, London
Date: Thursday 6th October
Continue reading “Murder Ballad: A New Musical (West End) Review”
Cast
Cassidy Janson – Carole King
Alan Morrissey – Gerry Goffin
Lorna Want – Cynthia Well
Ian McIntosh – Barry Mann
Diane Keen – Genie Klein
Joseph Prouse – Donnie Kirshner
Venue: Aldwych Theatre, London
Date: Thursday 6th October 2016 (2:30pm)
Continue reading “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (West End) Review”
Cast
Harry – Jamie Parker
Ginny – Poppy Miller
Ron – Paul Thornley
Hermonie – Noma Dumezweni
Draco – Alex Price
Albus – Sam Clemment
Scorpius – James Le Lacheur
Venue – Palace Theatre, London
Date: Wednesday 5th October 2016 (7:30pm)
NO SPOILERS – #KeepTheSecrets
Continue reading “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Part Two (West End) Review”
As the BFI London Film Festival starts tonight I thought it would be a good idea to put a post together to preview some of the films that will be making an appearance at the festival and the different Gala/UK Premiere’s happening over the next 11 days. It really is a fantastic event that takes over the many cinemas in Leicester Square with plenty of star acting power in attendance.
Recently the talk has all been surrounding the official opening of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Part one and two) in the West End. The first story in the Potter series to be made especially for the stage, while it has been open for well over a month in previews everything has really kicked on over the past week after it is now open! Reviews have been coming out, I haven’t read any yet though.
Then today the play was released I hope people realise it is in play format and not as just a story like the other books. I know the big fans will but I am sure it will catch some people out. J.K. Rowling is pretty awesome releasing it on the date that would be Harry Potter’s 36th Birthday, I saw that on twitter I didn’t just know it I promise!
Yesterday at around 5pm I went onto Twitter and had a lot of notifications. I was a little bit confused in all honesty as don’t usually get that many. When I realised what it was for I was rather shocked yet ecstatic at the same time.
The brilliant amazing thing that happened was the Official Les Misérables twitter feed had only went and put my review on! Pretty exciting stuff and was extremely chuffed about it, as you can imagine that saw a massive boom in my stats!
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