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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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The Trial of Le Singe - The Space Arts Centre
UPDATE: At the request of 'The Heretical Historians' the below post is now a review after all, and published here:...
Jul 12, 20172 min read
Return visits, different principals
Image: (C) Cameron Mackintosh Ltd I noted on social media on my second visit to The Wind in The Willows, which has taken up a summer...
Jul 8, 20175 min read
Love's Labours Lost (the musical) - Hackney Empire
There is always a disparity between the reality on the ground and people’s aspirations. Love’s Labour’s Lost, a musical adaptation of...
Jul 4, 20173 min read
Films: stupid (‘Churchill’) and sublime (‘A Man Called Ove’)
One of these days I will come to accept that music swelling at apparently emotional or poignant moments is a given in motion pictures....
Jun 26, 20173 min read
On The Town - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
I notice the Metro newspaper couldn’t decide whether to give Bat Out of Hell one star or five stars, and in the end plumped, strangely,...
Jun 26, 20173 min read
This is Not Culturally Significant - The Bunker Theatre
Photo credit: Besell McNamee Better late than never, and mostly because no producer wants press in to review their show on a public...
May 29, 20172 min read
Giggin4Good Presents Songs4Soi - St Paul's, Covent Garden
“I know there was a sound issue, it’s not his [the sound engineer’s] fault, it’s the Church,” quipped either Jordan Langford or Nathan...
May 28, 20175 min read
Caroline, or Change - Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Charlie Gallacher as Noah Gellman, and Sharon D Clarke as Caroline Thibodeaux, in 'Caroline, Or Change'. Photo credit: Marc Brenner. The...
May 28, 20174 min read
Jam - Finborough Theatre
I wonder whether Bella Soroush (Jasmine Hyde) should have toughened up a little. Did nobody tell her when she was doing teacher training...
May 25, 20173 min read
The Addams Family - New Wimbledon Theatre
I came, I saw, I rather enjoyed it. It appears to me that the naysayers who didn’t care much for The Addams Family stage musical...
May 21, 20173 min read
tick, tick... BOOM! - Park Theatre (Park 90)
Photo credit: Claire Bilyard Been there, seen it, and worn the proverbial T-shirt. Or so I thought, having seen a production of Jonathan...
May 20, 20173 min read
Two enchanted evenings - 'The Sound of Musicals' and 'Just Me and A Piano'
Photo credits: Raymond Gubbay Ltd and Live at Zédel /The Crazy Coqs I stepped away from the reviewing circuit this weekend to enjoy...
May 13, 20174 min read
The Braille Legacy - Charing Cross Theatre
There were quips, mostly infantile, swirling around in my head about seeing a musical called The Braille Legacy that were more than...
May 10, 20174 min read
Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road - Trafalgar Studio 2
There are certain viewpoints that (some) city people, like me, have of people from the country. Some of these views are, frankly,...
May 8, 20173 min read
Magic at the Musicals 2017 - Royal Albert Hall
It may no longer be acceptable for a male presenter of an event like Magic at the Musicals to be sexually suggestive, making comments,...
May 4, 20173 min read
Forty Years On - Chichester Festival Theatre
The elephant in the room in this production of Alan Bennett’s Forty Years On is this. The role of the Headmaster is played by Richard...
Apr 28, 20173 min read
Honk! - Union Theatre
This is one of those reviews I never intended to write, but am doing so purely for my own personal benefit as a matter of historical...
Apr 23, 20173 min read
Their Finest - the sort of film that's been done before...
Yes, we all know the tools and special effects available to filmmakers these days are superior to the ones available one generation ago,...
Apr 16, 20172 min read
Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? - Theatre Royal Haymarket
An office discussion in the day job led me to see this show in the first place, partly because someone is a fan of Damian Lewis, who...
Apr 16, 20172 min read
Honeymoon in Vegas the Musical in Concert - London Palladium
I’m not sure, having seen a concert version staged by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, why Honeymoon in Vegas The Musical lasted...
Mar 13, 20174 min read
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