Luke Bayer - Live at Zedel
Luke Bayer, for the relatively uninitiated, like yours truly, started young. There’s a photo of him as a teenager on ‘The X-Factor’, in...
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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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- Jan 13, 2019
- 2 min
Songs for Nobodies - Ambassadors Theatre
Bernadette Robinson. Photo credit: Nick Brittain. Why exactly is Songs for Nobodies called Songs for Nobodies? After all, the likes of...
- Jan 8, 2019
- 2 min
Christina Bennington - Live at Zedel
Empty vessels make the most noise, but that isn’t a universal principle, as an emotive and passionate concert from rising star Christina...
- Jan 7, 2019
- 12 min
On the subject of Bat Out of Hell the Musical...
Luke Sampson, Paula Hall, Julia Prior, me, Sarah Forrester, Tessa Prior. Photo credit: Catherine Francoise “I don’t know anyone who has...
- Dec 31, 2018
- 5 min
The week that was...
Rob Fowler and Sharon Sexton in Bat Out of Hell the Musical I have just about managed to keep out of trouble by busying myself tackling a...
- Dec 10, 2018
- 3 min
The twelve days of Christmas according to senior management
The recent announcement that Donner and Blitzen have elected to take the early reindeer retirement package has triggered a good deal of...
- Dec 10, 2018
- 4 min
So this is Christmas...
When I was a schoolboy, I was part of (though no choice of my own) a church-like organisation that had some characteristics of a cult....
- Dec 2, 2018
- 2 min
Bohemian Rhapsody The Movie
Ah, the power of social media. When I posted a link to a highly negative review of Bohemian Rhapsody recently, the response was...
- Nov 20, 2018
- 4 min
Hadestown - National Theatre
I recently saw a YouTube video of the final night of The Poor School, in which its founder and director Paul Caister – not liked in some...
- Nov 6, 2018
- 3 min
Allelujah! - National Theatre (Not) Live
It’s the NHS, but not as I’ve known it for the past few years. A general hospital in the north of England, with ‘general’ being very much...
- Nov 4, 2018
- 2 min
Girlfriends in Concert - Bishopsgate Institute
Like Love Story, and to some extent, the musical adaptation of Bend It Like Beckham, this Howard Goodall musical, Girlfriends, has too...
- Oct 14, 2018
- 3 min
Once - Queen's Theatre Hornchurch
They’ve brought back Once? Already? It was March 2015 when it left the West End, when even the star casting of Ronan Keating (who was...
- Oct 7, 2018
- 3 min
Burlesque'D - The Astronaut
Well, it is a fusion of musical theatre and ‘cirque’, though if you’re going in with an expectation of hearing the sort of showtunes...
- Oct 7, 2018
- 3 min
Cock - Minerva Theatre, Chichester
I suppose I ought to be grateful I wasn’t alone in feeling the post-lunch slump during a mostly subtle play with some pauses so long the...
- Sep 2, 2018
- 4 min
New experiences
I owe an apology to anyone who I have curtly snapped back at whenever they have suggested that as I’ve seen quite a few live shows over...
- Aug 29, 2018
- 2 min
Bat Out of Hell Singalong Performance - Dominion Theatre
As I agreed with another reviewer at the first of several singalong performances of Bat Out of Hell The Musical, there isn’t much to...
- Aug 28, 2018
- 5 min
An actual Bank Holiday weekend...
This was an unusual Bank Holiday weekend, in that I took time out instead of doing what I normally do, and gear up for doing work that I...
- Aug 22, 2018
- 3 min
Little Shop of Horrors - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Little Shop of Horrors almost lets itself down in being a show that just so happens to...
- Aug 20, 2018
- 5 min
And another thing... #IntoTheUnknown
There are flyer distributors at the Edinburgh Fringe who can tell I’m fully booked and let me pass by unhindered. There are others who...
- Aug 12, 2018
- 6 min
Some quirky stories
Unicyclist flashes past A naked man riding a unicycle over a bridge has been arrested by police in Texas. A spokesman for police in...
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