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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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MT Fest UK Late Bites (Luke Bayer) - The Other Palace
For the second time in as many months, I found myself in a late-night concert and conversation with musical theatre rising star Luke...
Feb 15, 20192 min read
Chita Rivera - Cadogan Hall
Of course, I knew the name. Chita Rivera. Mostly because an apparent feud between her and Rita Moreno was included in the Forbidden...
Feb 11, 20192 min read
4 One Night Only - Academy Theatre Barnsley
​The problem with calling a show 4 One Night Only is this. What happens if the audience has such a good time that a suggestion to do...
Feb 4, 20193 min read
Radio Active 40th Anniversary Tour - 24th April to 2nd June 2019
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the show first being performed live onstage, Britain’s favourite local radio station Radio Active is...
Jan 24, 20193 min read
Coming Clean - Trafalgar Studios
A 1980s set goes with this 1980s play, with seemingly 1980s values. Coming Clean must be one of the few plays set in that era (“the...
Jan 20, 20192 min read
Reeve Carney - The Other Palace Studio
I didn’t know much about Reeve Carney, which is the main reason why I went along to his solo show in London, the first one he’s ever done...
Jan 17, 20193 min read
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...
Jan 15, 20193 min read
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 13, 20192 min read
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 8, 20192 min read
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...
Jan 7, 201912 min read
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 31, 20185 min read
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, 20183 min read
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 10, 20184 min read
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...
Dec 2, 20182 min read
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 20, 20184 min read
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 6, 20183 min read
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...
Nov 4, 20182 min read
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 13, 20183 min read
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 6, 20183 min read
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...
Oct 6, 20183 min read
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