Trevor Noah: Off the Record - The O2 Arena
The observational comedy is on point, for the most part – there was a bit about the German national anthem, which these days has only one...
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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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- Nov 9, 2023
- 3 min
Sunset Boulevard - Savoy Theatre
Were there laptops in 1950? Apparently so, according to this production of Sunset Boulevard, or Sunset Blvd. as it insists on marketing...
- Nov 7, 2023
- 3 min
The Time Traveller's Wife - Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
Not every musical has to be entirely sung through, of course, but there were moments in this stage adaptation of The Time Traveller’s...
- Oct 17, 2023
- 3 min
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends - Gielgud Theatre
Opinion was divided amongst fellow theatregoers about Bernadette Peters in her West End debut. “I love her,” one said. Another said she...
- Oct 14, 2023
- 4 min
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
Two hours and forty-eight minutes and no interval. That would be quite tortuous for a theatre show, and indeed at the cinema screening of...
- Oct 12, 2023
- 3 min
Melonade - Camden People's Theatre
I only went to this show at the invitation of the Camden People’s Theatre, who offered me a complimentary ticket, as I was there anyway...
- Oct 8, 2023
- 2 min
Bowie Experience - New Wimbledon Theatre
There is The Bowie Experience, headed by Laurence Knight, which has apparently been doing the rounds since 1997. And then there’s Bowie...
- Oct 8, 2023
- 2 min
It's Her Turn Now - The Mill at Sonning
Michael J Barfoot’s adaptation of Ray Cooney’s Out of Order has been modernised to an extent, although it’s telling when Rebecca Willey...
- Oct 8, 2023
- 3 min
Noises Off - Theatre Royal Haymarket
It seems slightly odd that in a world that seems so much more chaotic than it was when Noises Off premiered in 1982 that a show, as well...
- Sep 16, 2023
- 4 min
The Little Big Things - @sohoplace
This show has the potential, if the producers play their cards right, to run and run. It would have to adapt to go out on tour: the show...
- Sep 6, 2023
- 3 min
Oppenheimer (2023 film)
I am reminded of a social media post I responded to about someone who went to the first preview of a new production in London. The...
- Sep 5, 2023
- 2 min
Next to Normal - Donmar Warehouse
There’s been some debate in theatrical circles about spoilers in reviews, specifically with regards to the London production of Next to...
- Sep 3, 2023
- 3 min
Barbie (2023 film)
According to the movie’s own narrative, before the Barbie doll was invented (by, as it is much later revealed in the film, by Ruth...
- Aug 28, 2023
- 5 min
Edinburgh Fringe 2023: #FillYerBoots
Birthmarked, starring Brook Tate. Photo credit: Paul Blakemore. Well, it was different this year. The ‘100 second challenge’ hadn’t...
- Aug 6, 2023
- 4 min
A Little Life - Savoy Theatre
“I don’t like it, but I have to stay,” a man in my row sighed to a fellow theatregoer during the interval, referring to his wife being...
- Aug 6, 2023
- 3 min
Cuckoo - Royal Court
It was bound to happen at some point. An audience at the theatre is requested to switch off their mobile phones and other electronic...
- Jul 30, 2023
- 4 min
Miss Saigon - Crucible Theatre
I doubt Miss Saigon would have been written today, or at least not in the way in which even this non-replica production, only made...
- Jul 17, 2023
- 3 min
The Sound of Music - Chichester Festival Theatre
It’s possible that I missed it, of course, but I didn’t see any ‘trigger warnings’ in the programme for Chichester Festival Theatre’s...
- Jul 17, 2023
- 4 min
Jack Whitehall: Settle Down - The O2 Arena
Tom Lucy, 26 years old (I didn’t look that up – that’s how old he said he was, and I’m taking him at his word), gave possibly the...
- Jul 7, 2023
- 2 min
Carousel - Royal Academy of Music
I mean, it’s Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, revived in this student production without a radical reinterpretation, which is more than...
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