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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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Fifty Shades Freed
I recall a task students were asked to do when I was an undergraduate at Westminster Business School (the name sounds prestigious, but...
Feb 12, 20183 min read
The Last Five Years - London Theatre, New Cross
Keen followers of musical theatre will be aware of The Last Five Years – the two-hander musical by Jason Robert Brown. It hasn’t been...
Jan 28, 20182 min read
The Railway Children: A Musical - Cadogan Hall
There are different ways of putting across a story set some time ago – the beatboxing and rapping in the West End production of Hamilton...
Jan 22, 20183 min read
The Greatest Showman
I’ve no idea whether real elephants were used in the filming of The Greatest Showman, though I suspect not: the actual ‘The Greatest...
Jan 7, 20183 min read
How to parent a young adult
Listen to your children for what they say, not what you think they say. They are changing rapidly and you should be open to their new...
Dec 31, 20171 min read
How to declutter your mind
Set aside time. Don't rush. Take a room at a time and methodically clear it out. Drawers, cupboards and surfaces - each item should be...
Dec 31, 20171 min read
Tips for self-promotion
Volunteer rather than waiting to be asked. Take a risk - such as working abroad for six months. Strike a balance between confidence and...
Dec 31, 20171 min read
Beat your cravings
Impose a 15-minute cooling off period during which you try the steps below. If you still feel like eating after 15 minutes you are free...
Dec 30, 20171 min read
My top twenty theatre shows of 2017
1. Bat Out of Hell The Musical – London Coliseum Andrew Polec, as Strat (leader of ‘The Lost’, a collective of young rebels) leads a...
Dec 30, 20174 min read
Jack and the Beanstalk - Gerrards Cross Memorial Centre
There’s a scene in the Broadway musical Ragtime where one character, after a sharp intake of breath, says to another: “Well”. The woman...
Dec 22, 20173 min read
Animus - Trinity Laban Musical Theatre
A quick Google search of the word ‘animus’ brings up the following definitions: 1) hostility or ill feeling, 2) motivation to do...
Dec 2, 20173 min read
Engelbert Humperdinck - Theatre Royal Drury Lane
I wasn’t going to say anything about Engelbert Humperdinck’s sole UK concert in 2017 – I’d never seen him in concert before, so I had no...
Nov 20, 20173 min read
The Red Lion - Trafalgar Studio 2
Rather like the smaller, so-called ‘fringe’ theatres as opposed to the glitz and glamour of the West End, there are some real gems to be...
Nov 12, 20173 min read
Some quirky stories
On an old, old and long defunct website I used to have, I had a ‘news’ page, where I would place unusual stories I picked up in the news...
Nov 11, 201713 min read
Young Frankenstein - Garrick Theatre
It isn’t quite Dirty Dancing, in which the stage ‘adaptation’ (inverted commas deliberate) is so faithful to the motion picture that one...
Oct 19, 20172 min read
The Band - Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
Photo credit: Matt Crockett The last time I went up to Sheffield, to see The Wedding Singer, I reported I’d be going up next time on the...
Oct 15, 20176 min read
The Norman Conquests - Chichester Festival Theatre
It’s not the first time I’ve attended a theatre performance that started well before noon – during the 25th anniversary weekend of Les...
Oct 10, 20172 min read
Sucked! - Leicester Square Theatre
It is quite often the case, though I seldom mention it in reviews, that a fair amount of new comedy writing for the stage would probably...
Sep 26, 20173 min read
Oslo - National Theatre
Chaos and order, order and chaos, and then a gentlemen’s agreement, in principle, but terms and conditions apply. Oslo, a play about the...
Sep 19, 20173 min read
Pippin The Musical - Hope Mill Theatre
It takes a lot to get me out of London to see shows elsewhere, but such was the fuss being made in certain quarters about the Hope Mill...
Sep 17, 20174 min read
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