Reviewer's Rating Thriller, Live Mel Cooper 16/03/2016went to Thriller, Live, a Michael Jackson Tribute Show and pop concert, in a sceptical frame of mind. My wife,...
Reviewer's Rating Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Mel Cooper 11/03/2016remember a rather famous movie star associated with old MGM musicals once saying to me that people should not sneer...
Reviewer's Rating Carmen Mel Cooper 01/03/2016have now attended all three of the operas that Ellen Kent is touring around the country at the moment. Without...
Reviewer's Rating King Charles III Mel Cooper 27/02/2016normally dislike “what if” novels and plays, rewrites of or projections onto history, so I was quite sceptical about the...
Reviewer's Rating Chicago Mel Cooper 18/02/2016saw the latest cast of Kander and Ebb’s Chicago in Oxford where it was starting on a new tour. The...
Reviewer's Rating Flare Path Mel Cooper 08/02/2016was very keen to catch up with this play, which is now touring extensively in a solidly cast and directed...
Reviewer's Rating Gangsta Granny Mel Cooper 16/01/2016caught up with the BSC stage adaptation of David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny in Oxford at the New Theatre where it...
Reviewer's Rating Annie Mel Cooper 19/12/2015he touring production of Chatrles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan’s Annie is the Christmas Show at the New Theatre...
Aladdin Mel Cooper 08/12/2015he pantomime season is upon us and I have just attended the Oxford Playhouse contribution to the genre for 2015...
Reviewer's Rating WNO Tour: Bellini, I Puritani; Handel, Orlando; Sondheim, Sweeney Todd Mel Cooper 10/11/2015caught up with the current Welsh National Opera season on tour in Oxford and must begin by reporting that musically...
