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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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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
Travesties - Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
“Dada! Dada!” So yells Tristan Tzara (Freddie Fox) in Travesties, one of those Tom Stoppard plays that generous amounts of culture...
Mar 13, 20172 min read
Overture - Hippodrome Casino
I wasn’t originally going to say anything about this event, just go along and enjoy it for what it is. But then I wasn’t expecting this...
Mar 13, 20173 min read
Russell Howard: Round the World - Royal Albert Hall
At a time of perceived unprecedented uncertainty, for good for or ill, particularly in the corridors of political power in both London...
Mar 7, 20173 min read
The Glass Menagerie - Duke of York's Theatre
A fellow theatregoer called out what he believed was a false accent on the part of Cherry Jones as Amanda, the matriarch in The Glass...
Feb 26, 20172 min read
The Girls - Phoenix Theatre
It may be funny for those who can stomach isolated punchlines delivered out of character, with sudden verve and confidence from women who...
Feb 24, 20173 min read
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...
Feb 20, 20173 min read
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 19, 20173 min read
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 15, 20173 min read
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...
Feb 13, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
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 22, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
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 11, 20173 min read
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 10, 20173 min read
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...
Jan 3, 20173 min read
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 31, 20162 min read
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 30, 201611 min read
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 29, 20162 min read
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