Welcome to The Crazy Chris Website

Loving London life...

Hello and welcome. This is the third version of my personal site - the first two just developed technical problems which I couldn't resolve so I had to start over. Basically it's mostly about theatre as that's where I often find myself outside of work. I'm still not technologically minded so this one might well fail too at some point.

One of these days I might get around to putting up old content from the previous websites. Thanks for stopping by!

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Bat Out of Hell (2025) - Edinburgh Playhouse

“It was long ago, it was far away, it was so much better than it is today…” Glenn Adamson, Katie Tonkinson, Rob Fowler and Sharon Sexton....

Dec 27, 20241 min read

Some quirky stories

A group of opera singers was stuck in a lift for more than an hour – after ignoring the maximum weight warning. The 13 performers had to...

Dec 26, 20243 min read

Wicked Part One - 2024 film

It wasn’t the musical lovers who have seen the stage show more times than they’ve had birthdays that convinced me to finally find some...

Nov 4, 20243 min read

Small Things Like These (2024 film)

It’s a bloody slow burner, this movie, and if it were something I were watching at home, I’d almost certainly not have bothered sticking...

Nov 4, 20242 min read

The Apprentice (2024 movie)

For all the criticisms of the likes of Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves never having run a business before, and therefore being quite...

Oct 30, 20243 min read

Defying Gravity: West End Women - Adelphi Theatre

Tuesday nights at the Adelphi Theatre on the Strand are usually taken up by concerts and gigs. It’s the ‘dark’ day for Back to the Future...

Oct 18, 20242 min read

Jake Lambert: The Sunshine Kid - Leicester Square Theatre

Seeing as Jake Lambert’s people are still using my five star review from Edinburgh Fringe 2022 on their marketing for his 2024/25 tour,...

Oct 6, 20243 min read

The Critic (2023 movie)

There are no star ratings in the reviews in The Critic , which means I can get away without one too. (Ner ner.) It starts off being about...

Oct 6, 20243 min read

The Outrun (2024 movie)

I fell for the celebrity trap. I don’t even know if I’m using the right term by saying ‘the celebrity trap’ but I went to see The Outrun...

Oct 6, 20243 min read

Lee (2023 movie)

Someone who liked to take photographs lived during the time of the Second World War and therefore harnessed opportunities to combine...

Sep 1, 20243 min read

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - Minerva Theatre, Chichester

On my previous trip to Chichester this summer, Southern Railway proved to be a letdown yet again (though I still made it to a performance...

Aug 27, 20248 min read

Reflections on Edinburgh Fringe 2024

Ali Woods: At the Moment, at Underbelly Bristo Square Well, every Fringe is different, I suppose, and the overall number of reviewers,...

Aug 10, 20242 min read

Oliver! - Chichester Festival Theatre

I’ve no idea who played the title character in this production of Oliver! – I’m not on the press list for Chichester Festival Theatre...

Jun 28, 20244 min read

Into The Woods / Musical Theatre Cabaret - Royal Academy of Music

I’ll be brief. I’m conscious that I once started by saying that when I wrote a piece about Bat Out of Hell the Musical, which eventually...

May 26, 20243 min read

Barry Manilow - London Palladium

Jimmy Tarbuck’s warm-up act was best summarised as, “Be still my beating heart! Oh. It is.” His light humour hasn’t changed over the...

Apr 1, 20243 min read

Opening Night - Gielgud Theatre

It is true that not everybody that was seated in the Gielgud Theatre just before 7:30pm was still there just before 10:00pm, although...

Mar 30, 20244 min read

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy is incredibly broad – six young men, often with diametrically...

Mar 10, 20244 min read

Cable Street - Southwark Playhouse

The director of this show, Adam Lenson, has been very vocal about Jewish representation, or what he perceives to be the lack of it, on...

Feb 26, 20243 min read

Poor Things (2023 film)

Possibly one of the oddest films I’ve ever sat through (and I’m fully aware that if someone were to ask me if I’ve seen such-and-such a...

Jan 28, 20243 min read

The National Lottery's Big Night of Musicals 2024

There’s the Post Office scandal, in which some of its senior staff still somehow believe miscellaneous subpostmasters were guilty of...

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