Annouced this afternoon are the 2018 Olivier Awards recognising some of the amazing productions and performances over the past year! I have been lucky enough to see quite a few of these productions as well!
FOLLIES by Sondheim ; Directed by Dominic Cooke ; Designed by Vicki Mortimer ; at the National Theatre, London, UK ; 21 August 2017 ; Credit : Johan Persson
I went to see a lot of Theatre in 2017 so decided that as well as my Top 10 Theatre Shows I would also for the first time ever list my favourite performances from the year. This created some very tough decisions as the level of Theatre in 2017 was very high and managing to pick just ten performances out of the amazing shows I had the pleasure of watching has proven to be very tough!
I went to see a lot of Theatre in 2017 so decided that as well as my Top 10 Theatre Shows I would also for the first time ever list my favourite performances from the year. This created some very tough decisions as the level of Theatre in 2017 was very high and managing to pick just ten performances out of the amazing shows I had the pleasure of watching has proven to be very tough!
Poddin’ On The Ritz is a new Podcast put together by the brilliant Ross Noble and Hadley Fraser as they are currently starring in Young Frankenstein the Musical at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End. I am pretty sure you would have seen many posts about the musical that I totally fell in love with!
After being lucky enough to get a day seat for Glengarry Glen Ross starring Christian Slater I knew I had to try the stage door in an effort to meet the fantastic actor, who was one of my first crushes after being obsessed with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves!
Fantastic actor and lovely man, posing for photos and signing autographs with everyone at the stage door.
Dave Moss – Robert Glenister
John Williamson – Kris Marshall
James Lingk – Daniel Ryan
Balen – Oliver Ryan
Ricky Roma – Christian Slater
Shelly Levene – Stanley Townsend
George Aaronow – Don Warrington
Alexander Hamilton – Ash Hunter Eliza Hamilton – Rachelle Ann Go Aaron Burr – Giles Terera
Angelica Schuyler – Rachel John
George Washington – Obioma Ugoala
Marquis de Lafayette/ Thomas Jefferson – Jason Pennycooke
Hercules Mulligan/Jasmes Madison – Tarrin Callender
John Laurens/Phillip Hamilton – Cleve September
Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds – Christine Allado King George – Michael Jibson
When I was starting to write my review for the show I ended up getting into small rant about the ticket I had bought so I thought it was best to write a separate blog post about it.
View from Row D seat 9 – Acceptable for £89.50?
The prices were crazy and I’m actually outraged that I paid £89.50 for a seat that was actually a restricted view, who even decided that? I couldn’t see many of the things happening on the right side of the stage which I think for that price and not to be told that it was restricted is actually a disgrace. I obviously didn’t anything whilst inside the theatre as didn’t want to be that person considering it would be the fault of the people working as ushers.
John McCrea – Jamie New
Rebecca McKinnis – Margaret New
Mina Anwar – Ray
Tamsin Carroll – Miss Hedge
Lucie Shorthouse – Pritti Pasha
Phil Nichol – Hugo Battersby