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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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Choir - Minerva Theatre Chichester
A fascinating show that takes the audience through an intense rehearsal process undertaken by a community choir prior to its first public...
7 days ago3 min read
The Letters of Frank Loesser
You know the kind of book that is difficult to put down, and if you can spare the time that very night, you plough on through and finish...
Aug 23 min read
A show that worked, and a show that didn't
Top Hat at Chichester Festival Theatre. Photo credit: Johan Persson In this economy, I’m more inclined than I’ve ever been to take up a...
Jul 313 min read
Carly Paoli and Friends - Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Talk about going into a show ‘blind’ – I had never heard of Carly Paoli. There was a part of me that thought I should go for David Phelps...
Jul 143 min read
Jeremy Jordan - Royal Albert Hall
I couldn’t keep up with all of the various songs Jeremy Jordan and his longtime collaborator and musical director Benjamin Rauhala had...
Jul 133 min read
Indigo - Curve Theatre Leicester
(L-R) Lisa Maxwell (Elaine), Catie Davis (Director), Nuno Queimado (Rick) and Katie Cailean (Emma). Photography by Manuel Harlan. There...
Jun 264 min read
Aaron Tveit - London Palladium
Aaron Tveit did well to sell out the London Palladium – twice – to the best of my knowledge I hadn’t seen him perform in anything in...
Apr 263 min read
Wild Rose - Royal Lyceum Edinburgh
There were all sorts of reasons not to see this production of Wild Rose . I initially got it confused with White Rose , a completely...
Apr 224 min read
Kinky Boots - Theatre Royal Brighton
There are Kinky Boots purists out there who hate this new touring show, because it is a non-replica production. I’m not sure why they...
Mar 303 min read
Second Best - Riverside Studios
"PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ARE NOT ALLOWED!" So here's a photo of the outside of the venue instead. No programmes were available – or if there...
Feb 164 min read
Starlight Express - Wembley Park Theatre
It’s that Andrew Lloyd Webber musical I didn’t want to go to because it’s about trains, and I have had quite enough of them in recent...
Feb 24 min read
The Queensland Killers
The Outbank of Queensland is home to the deadliest snakes in the world. The Inland Taipan, which is found nowhere else on the planet, has...
Jan 311 min read
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....
Jan 74 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 27, 20241 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...
Dec 26, 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, 20243 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...
Nov 4, 20242 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 30, 20243 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 19, 20242 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 7, 20243 min read
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