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!

Bohemian Rhapsody The Movie

Ah, the power of social media. When I posted a link to a highly negative review of Bohemian Rhapsody recently, the response was...

Dec 2, 20182 min read

Hadestown - National Theatre

I recently saw a YouTube video of the final night of The Poor School, in which its founder and director Paul Caister – not liked in some...

Nov 20, 20184 min read

Allelujah! - National Theatre (Not) Live

It’s the NHS, but not as I’ve known it for the past few years. A general hospital in the north of England, with ‘general’ being very much...

Nov 6, 20183 min read

Girlfriends in Concert - Bishopsgate Institute

Like Love Story, and to some extent, the musical adaptation of Bend It Like Beckham, this Howard Goodall musical, Girlfriends, has too...

Nov 4, 20182 min read

Once - Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

They’ve brought back Once? Already? It was March 2015 when it left the West End, when even the star casting of Ronan Keating (who was...

Oct 14, 20183 min read

Burlesque'D - The Astronaut

Well, it is a fusion of musical theatre and ‘cirque’, though if you’re going in with an expectation of hearing the sort of showtunes...

Oct 7, 20183 min read

Cock - Minerva Theatre, Chichester

I suppose I ought to be grateful I wasn’t alone in feeling the post-lunch slump during a mostly subtle play with some pauses so long the...

Oct 7, 20183 min read

New experiences

I owe an apology to anyone who I have curtly snapped back at whenever they have suggested that as I’ve seen quite a few live shows over...

Sep 2, 20184 min read

Bat Out of Hell Singalong Performance - Dominion Theatre

As I agreed with another reviewer at the first of several singalong performances of Bat Out of Hell The Musical, there isn’t much to...

Aug 29, 20182 min read

An actual Bank Holiday weekend...

This was an unusual Bank Holiday weekend, in that I took time out instead of doing what I normally do, and gear up for doing work that I...

Aug 28, 20185 min read

Little Shop of Horrors - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Little Shop of Horrors almost lets itself down in being a show that just so happens to...

Aug 22, 20183 min read

And another thing... #IntoTheUnknown

There are flyer distributors at the Edinburgh Fringe who can tell I’m fully booked and let me pass by unhindered. There are others who...

Aug 20, 20185 min read

Some quirky stories

Unicyclist flashes past A naked man riding a unicycle over a bridge has been arrested by police in Texas. A spokesman for police in...

Aug 12, 20186 min read

The Vaults presents Sounds and Sorcery celebrating Disney Fantasia

Photo: Nutcracker Suite featuring human-sized plant life in The Vaults presents Sounds and Sorcery celebrating Disney Fantasia. Credit...

Jul 18, 20183 min read

Red - Wyndham's Theatre

I’m with Ken (Alfred Enoch) when it comes to the sort of abstract art that Mark Rothko (Alfred Molina) was known for. “What do you see?”...

Jul 15, 20182 min read

The Lieutenant of Inishmore - Noel Coward Theatre

Now this is what a good theatrical comedy should be like – a serious message but with hilarity, even absurdity. The elephant in the room...

Jul 15, 20183 min read

Aspects of Love - Hope Mill Theatre

I had some trouble keeping up with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love, or at least this Hope Mill Theatre production of it. Any show...

Jul 12, 20183 min read

Me and My Girl - Chichester Festival Theatre

I can almost hear the grammar police in my schooldays (which constituted the sort of teachers who relished giving detentions out for the...

Jul 10, 20183 min read

The Light Princess in Concert - Cadogan Hall

The thing about The Light Princess is that, although it’s a decent children’s story, the musical adaptation isn’t perfect – the music...

Jul 2, 20182 min read

The Sweet Smell of Success - Royal Academy of Music

The Sweet Smell of Success, is above all, a comprehensive rebuttal to the assertion that what is printed in newspapers (or, these days,...

Jul 1, 20183 min read

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