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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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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 18, 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 14, 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 9, 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 25, 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 18, 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 16, 20174 min read
The Blinding Light - Jermyn Street Theatre
The set is in some disorder in The Blinding Light, quite deliberately, to depict the state of mind of August Strindberg (Jasper Britton),...
Sep 12, 20173 min read
Free music, an ejected heckler and a lot of laughs - Edinburgh Fringe 2017
As Edinburgh is a long way to go from London just for (separate) matinee and evening shows featuring people I’ve come to know over time,...
Aug 27, 20175 min read
Late Company - Trafalgar Studio 2
To its credit, it’s a little while before it’s entirely clear what Late Company is really all about. But once the penny dropped, I had an...
Aug 27, 20174 min read
The Unmarried - Edinburgh Fringe 2017
In the flurry of shows I raced around London in the latter part of July to review under the general banner of ‘Edinburgh Previews’,...
Aug 27, 20173 min read
The Course of True Love - Edinburgh Fringe 2017
I suppose a show called The Course of True Love (which ran smoother than the line from A Midsummer Night’s Dream from which the title...
Aug 27, 20172 min read
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two - Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
As Matt Trueman pointed out just before press night for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, “spoilers already exist. A single Google...
Aug 20, 20173 min read
Angels in America - National Theatre
A reminder from the National Theatre about this (at the time of writing) being the final week of performances for Angels in America...
Aug 13, 20173 min read
I’ve got a beautiful feelin’ no-one’s immune when you pick out a simple tune
Photo credit: BBC/Mark Allan For various reasons, how most reviewers see a production can vary considerably from the ways in which most...
Aug 12, 20174 min read
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