Whoopi Goldberg Live - London Palladium
It was a performance I nearly decided not to go to. At the time of booking, the ‘late night’ performance Whoopi Goldberg was to give at...
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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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- Feb 19, 2017
- 3 min
Everybody's Talking About Jamie - Crucible Theatre Sheffield
A twenty-first century musical for a twenty-first century audience, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie has a sort of chart music feel that I...
- Feb 15, 2017
- 3 min
The Boys in the Band - Vaudeville Theatre
In the end, I never figured out why this play has its title, The Boys in the Band. It’s essentially about what it means to be a...
- Feb 13, 2017
- 3 min
Disney's Newsies the Musical - cinema screening
Photo credit: Disney Theatrical Productions I’d heard a lot of good things about Newsies The Musical, a Disney Theatrical Productions...
- Jan 22, 2017
- 3 min
In the Depths of Dead Love - Print Room at the Coronet
The last major protest that comes to mind against a theatre production in London was one headed by the religious extremist group...
- Jan 22, 2017
- 3 min
Manchester By The Sea
There’s a definite independent movie feel to Manchester By The Sea – the ‘Manchester’ in question is a coastal town in Massachusetts,...
- Jan 11, 2017
- 3 min
The Kite Runner - Wyndham's Theatre
What’s surprising about this theatrical adaptation of The Kite Runner is that its world premiere was as long ago as March 2009 – it’s...
- Jan 11, 2017
- 3 min
BU21 - Trafalgar Studio 2
(Photo credit: David Monteith-Hodge) Set in the near future, the 22 July “immediately after the date of performance” as directed by a...
- Jan 10, 2017
- 3 min
On the subject of La La Land
I didn’t realise it was still possible to even get financial backing for an old-style film like La La Land, with borderline absurd...
- Jan 3, 2017
- 3 min
The Woman in Black - Fortune Theatre
“Every show,” the website for The Woman in Black West End play warns, will contain a school party. That was enough to put me off for...
- Dec 31, 2016
- 2 min
She Loves Me - Menier Chocolate Factory
One of those shows that is very silly, and it knows it, She Loves Me is a bit of a let-down in its sheer repetitiveness. Two instances...
- Dec 30, 2016
- 11 min
A look back at 2016
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” As it was in 1859 when Charles Dickens had his A Tale of Two Cities published,...
- Dec 29, 2016
- 2 min
Gatsby - Leicester Square Theatre
When I previously saw Gatsby during its Union Theatre run back in April 2016, I pointed out that “it could do with some tightening and...
- Dec 18, 2016
- 4 min
This is NOT a review of @WestEndMT ‘West End Sings at Christmas
I had informed the good people at ‘West End Musical Theatre’, a ‘weekly elite training’ programme for young musical theatre performers...
- Dec 18, 2016
- 3 min
Cinderella at the London Palladium
“The amount of sexual innuendo in that show was ridiculous,” came the exit poll verdict from a fellow theatregoer as we filed out of...
- Dec 16, 2016
- 5 min
The Collective Project 2016 - Tristan Bates Theatre
The wonderful thing from a reviewer’s perspective about events like The Collective Project is that not only is it fruitless to do any...
- Dec 13, 2016
- 3 min
Christmas - Theatre N16
The rather unimaginatively titled Christmas does, at least, provide an alternative scenario to the near-relentless cheery moods so many...
- Dec 13, 2016
- 3 min
The Snow Queen - Theatre N16
It’s what lies beneath the surface in The Snow Queen that gives this production much more than what is immediately visible at first...
- Dec 12, 2016
- 3 min
Waking Up Dead! - Safeword Theatre UK
“There are no children from this marriage,” the programme for Safeword Theatre UK’s Waking Up Dead! almost tersely states. Not that this...
- Feb 28, 2016
- 7 min
A considered response to The Book of Mormon musical
This is, I think, the first time I’ve looked at the musical The Book of Mormon with my ‘reviewer hat’ on. Except even this time I wasn’t...
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