5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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The Osmonds

Like C.S. Lewis in a different context, I was “surprised by joy”.  Back in the 1970s I was clinging on to the counter-cultural pretensions of the hipp...
3.0★ ★ ★
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Footloose

This is a curate’s egg of a show.  It’s good in parts, indeed very good. But some of it is pretty bad, particularly the story.  Well, it fits into the...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Briefs: Bite Club

This is not a show to take your maiden aunt to or a card-carrying member of the Democratic Unionist Party.  It is decadent.  It is ripely gay.  And it...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Singin’ in the Rain

It doesn’t get any better than this.  Why it’s even better than the movie!  Most of us will have seen it on TV.  It’s one of those Christmas favourite...
2.0★ ★
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We Will Rock You

If you are going to this show, be sure to take earplugs with you.  Not because the music is bad.  It mostly consists of well-known hits by Queen, and ...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Chicago

Preposterous but stunning!  And not even that preposterous.  The story is based on real events that took place in the 1920s in Chicago when a whole se...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★
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Dreamgirls

A hit on Broadway in 1981, a hit as a movie with Beyoncé in 2006, and now on tour direct from a successful run in the West End, Dreamgirls played to a...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★
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The Man behind the Mask

“Jeez, sport, if that b*****d doesn’t stock Foster’s, I’ll drop him, so help me.  I’m that dry, I could drink out of an Abo’s loincloth!”  That was ju...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★
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Busman’s Honeymoon

The Mill at Sonning is a long way from the West End, but not too far from civilization. If you’re not driving, there’s a fast train from Paddington to...