by Johnny Fox | Apr 5, 2017 | Cabaret, Musical Comedy, Reviews
Two thoroughly nice chaps you’d safely take home to mother. Two Cambridge choral scholars and occasionally camp satirists at pains to remind you they’re heterosexual. One a bit shorter and blonder, one a bit like Robert Peston. Let’s first accentuate the positive and...
by Johnny Fox | Feb 6, 2017 | Cabaret, Reviews, Theatre
There are few divas for whom you would queue an hour in the pouring rain on a cold night in January, but it was almost worth getting trench foot to witness the extraordinary, uplifting, generous and eclectic ‘comeback’ concert with which Cynthia Erivo chose to favour...
by Johnny Fox | Mar 15, 2016 | Cabaret, Reviews
This is a BOGOF worthy of Ben Rimalower’s beloved discount store Target: his two one-hour monologues Patti Issues and Bad With Money ran separately off Broadway – the paean of love to Ms LuPone for over a year – but in London come bolted together for the one cover...
by Johnny Fox | Dec 7, 2015 | Cabaret, Reviews
She’s at it again. Not content with stripping the bones and sinews of Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley, the ‘Silent Witness’ of the cabaret circuit Barb Jungr now forensically dissects and reconstructs the Beatles. It has become a cliché to say that ‘she...
by Johnny Fox | Oct 1, 2015 | Cabaret, Reviews
‘Wanna Sing a Show Tune’ starts Michael Feinstein, cementing a career which has stretched across thirty years of meticulous analysis and delivery of the entire catalogue of the ‘Great American Songbook’ – a songbook which, he tells his British audiences, is truly...
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