Writer David Walliams talks to Quays Life about taking Billionaire Boy The Musical from page to stage, wacky inventions and what he would do with a Billion pounds! Coming up with an idea to create an overnight fortune is the stuff dreams are made of...
After several years playing 60’s icon, Frankie Valli in London’s West End production of Jersey Boys, Michael Watson is back in the leading role, taking the multi-award-winning musical on the road in a new UK tour. He chats to Carmel Thomason about...
Since premiering in 2004 Jersey Boys has won 57 major awards across the world, including Best New Musical at Broadway’s Tony, London’s Olivier and Australia’s Helpmann Awards. Add to that an audience worldwide of more than 25 million and you start...
Looking back to the 1970s you can be forgiven for thinking it was all flares and fancy footwork. But don’t be fooled by the happy disco grooves that define the decade. These were tough years, and Saturday Night Fever gives us the best and worst of...
After 17 months on the road The Band Musical, winds its way back to the north west where it premiered with all the pizzazz of showbiz royalty at Manchester Opera House. At the curtain call, Take That’s Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, the...
A year on tour has done nothing to diminish the enthusiasm of The Band’s younger female cast. If anything, the excitement of being in the show that has, at its heart, the music of Take That, has been ratcheted up, aided by stellar reviews and...
On tour for almost a year and such a hit that more dates – including a West End run – have been added, Vicky Edwards catches up with Yazdan Qafouri and Curtis T Johns to learn more about starring in Take That’s musical The Band Cast through the...
The Band, a stage musical with the songs of Take That, comes to The Lowry in January. Vicky Edwards talks to producers Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen to find out the secret behind its success. Gary, Mark and Howard (everyone is on first...
‘I’ve never seen anything like it!’ exclaims Brian Capron’s Greatest Showman style circus owner, Albert Blossom on seeing the two-headed llama, Pushmi-Pullyu – and in years of reviewing, neither have I. The puppets, and there are lots of them, are...
Badly bleached beehives, tap-dancing zimmer-frames and pigeon puppets – Raz Shaw’s new production of The Producers, at The Royal Exchange, is a riot of absurdity. As if taking stage notes from one of the show’s more well-known numbers, Shaw keeps it...
Carmel Thomason