Death has a new face in James Gant who starts performances in DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY tonight!
A soaring story of the preciousness of life and the overwhelming power of love, Death Takes A Holiday continues it limited season to Saturday 4 March. From tonight, James Gant will take over in the central role of Death from Chris Peluso, who is leaving the production as planned for the UK tour of Funny […]
REVIEW: DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY (Charing Cross Theatre) ★★★★
After Grand Hotel and Titanic, Thom Southerland has scored another winner with a Maury Yeston musical. Death Takes a Holiday, book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan, was nominated for 11 Drama Desk Awards after its Off-Broadway premiere in 2011. Based on the 1928 play by Alberto Casella, the musical takes place in the home […]
Watch Chris Peluso and Zoë Doano sing “More And More” from DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
Maxwell Caulfield, Zoë Doano and Chris Peluso are to head the cast of Death Takes A Holiday, the third Charing Cross Theatre musical directed by Artistic Director Thom Southerland following the critically acclaimed Titanic and Ragtime, which has just received an all-time record 14 Off West End Award nominations as well as WhatsOnStage Award nominations […]
Sheridan Smith’s understudy Natasha J Barnes is the greatest star in FUNNY GIRL
On 12 May 2016 it was announced that Sheridan Smith would take a 2-4 week break from performing the role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Savoy Theatre due to stress and exhaustion. Understudy Natasha J Barnes stepped into the role (something she had previously done for one week during its run at […]
REVIEW: FUNNY GIRL (Savoy Theatre)
There’s something to be said about musicals based on true stories. It gives them another dimension, far removed from the glitzy stereotype people believe musicals to be. Fanny Brice was a born to Jewish Hungarian parents who’d emigrated to America and made a good life for themselves. She on the other hand favoured show business […]
FUNNY GIRL STARRING SHERIDAN SMITH BEGINS PREVIEWS AT THE SAVOY THEATRE TOMORROW NIGHT
The West End transfer of Funny Girl, receives its first preview tomorrow night, 9 April 2016 – with opening night on 20 April, at the Savoy Theatre. Michael Mayer directs Sheridan Smith as Fanny Brice, Darius Campbell as Nicky Arnstein, Marilyn Cutts as Mrs Brice, Maurice Lane as Mr Keeney, Valda Aviks as Mrs Meeker, […]