42 Balloons, Come From Away 1000, and Matilda the Musical the Movie
It was unusual, to say the least, to be seeing two theatre shows on a Monday – outside the Edinburgh Fringe, that is – but the...
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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 14, 2022
- 5 min
Cinderella - Hope Mill Theatre
Well, it happened to various fellow fans of Bat Out of Hell the Musical when it came (back) to Manchester, and then eventually it...
- Nov 3, 2022
- 3 min
Dorian: Son of Love and Death - The Other Palace Studio
Brought into the present day, this adaptation of the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray works remarkably well for the most part, in...
- Oct 29, 2022
- 4 min
Jordan Gray at the London Palladium
As the audience was periodically reminded, Jordan Gray is having the time of her life, having brought her Edinburgh Fringe show, Is It A...
- Oct 16, 2022
- 5 min
A return visit to the city of Liverpool after 13 years
I hadn’t been to Liverpool for some years – I went a couple of times as a novelty a year or two after I graduated from university, simply...
- Oct 9, 2022
- 3 min
Les Mis at 37 and Mamma Mia muckup matinee
It’s fascinating, at least to me, to discover, or rather re-discover, what it is like to step away from the reviewing circuit and...
- Sep 19, 2022
- 4 min
Magic at the Musicals 2022
On the day Dear Evan Hansen played its final Broadway performance, Sam Tutty, who still (for a few more weeks until the show plays its...
- Sep 12, 2022
- 5 min
Last (not quite mid) night thoughts: Into The Woods, Theatre Royal Bath
According to the New York Times (yes, I had to go to an American publication to find out a bit more), the co-director of this production...
- Aug 28, 2022
- 5 min
Some thoughts on Edinburgh Fringe 2022
I overdid it at the Edinburgh festivals this August, so much so that I was quietly grateful when the Edinburgh International Festival...
- Aug 28, 2022
- 4 min
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 stinkers
During this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I filed 63 reviews, published on londontheatre1.com for anyone who wants to have a look....
- Aug 7, 2022
- 4 min
Millennials - The Other Palace
The thing about going to a show long after press night is that I get to see how an audience that isn’t packed to the rafters with friends...
- Jul 28, 2022
- 3 min
A-Typical Rainbow - Turbine Theatre
There are, I suspect, people whose experiences of neurodiversity in the home are markedly different from that of Boy (Conor Joseph at the...
- Jul 23, 2022
- 3 min
Prima Facie - NT Live
It’s as powerful and intense as many others who have seen Prima Facie says it is. I don’t disagree with the praises being showered on...
- Jul 9, 2022
- 4 min
The Light in the Piazza/Merrily We Roll Along - Royal Academy of Music
I read with interest a social media comment about London not being quite the same as it was pre-pandemic. Of course it isn’t, for many...
- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
An Intervention - Riverside Studios
This is a play that could have been pacier: the lack of scenery, or anything in the way of set or props aside from some tautly wrapped...
- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
Hail to the understudies at Bonnie & Clyde
It is often argued, with justification, that when roles are performed by understudies, it’s pretty much the same experience. It’s the...
- May 1, 2022
- 6 min
Les Misérables - Milton Keynes Theatre
Nic Greenshields as Javert. Photo credit: Matthew Murphy I love being able to, every so often, step off the reviewing circuit and attend...
- Apr 24, 2022
- 3 min
The 47th - The Old Vic
I only went to see The 47th on the back of positive feedback from other theatregoers and critics. It wasn’t so much a case of...
- Apr 20, 2022
- 2 min
The Taxidermist's Daughter - Chichester Festival Theatre
The already vast Chichester Festival Theatre stage space expands further than usual in The Taxidermist’s Daughter, with screens on either...
- Feb 14, 2022
- 3 min
Keala Settle - Cadogan Hall
Photo credit: Fourth Wall Live Stories of inconsiderate audience behaviour will always do the rounds, and I had the ‘privilege’ (inverted...
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