MUSIK: The Billie Trix Story Richard McKee 12/02/2020 Billie Trix is an outrageous character who emerged from the 2001 musical Closer to Heaven, a collaboration between Jonathan Harvey and the most succes...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Richard McKee 31/01/2020 Your reviewer doesn’t have much sense of direction, and even with the help of an A-Z Map he had difficulty finding his way from Tower Hill station to ...
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Richard McKee 23/01/2020 You don’t get musicals much better known that those by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. So it was no surprise that on the opening night of this show ...
Curtains : A Musical Whodunnit Richard McKee 15/01/2020 I had never heard of Curtains before, and the by-line A Musical Whodunnit did not fill me with hope. But as the band played the overture to Act One (I...
Cinderella Richard McKee 11/12/2019 “The fairy godmother of all pantomimes” is what the blurb says, and no doubt about it, that’s absolutely right! Cinderella is a wonderful blend of the...
The Fairytale Revolution Richard McKee 09/12/2019 This is not a traditional pantomime. There is no Dame or Principal Boy. In fact, all the boys are girls. The cast compromises four young women, whose ...
Annie Richard McKee 12/11/2019 I had heard of “little orphan Annie”, but I knew absolutely nothing about her, and nothing about this show, when I took my seat at the ever-reliable N...
All’s Well That Ends Well Richard McKee 10/11/2019 Shakespeare made use of some pretty unlikely plots for some of his non-historical plays. This one, borrowed from the Decameron, takes the biscuit. No ...
The Magnificent Music Hall Richard McKee 04/11/2019 And now for something completely different … After being closed since the late 1940s, the old “Ally Pally”, perched on a hill overlooking North London...
Nathalie Inside Out Richard McKee 15/10/2019 “Take Back Control!” might well have been the slogan for this astonishing performer. But she had no need to take it back, for she had never lost it. N...
