by Johnny Fox | May 21, 2014 | Cabaret
Alarmingly soon after she bounds onto the stage in the blonde Sound of Music wig, Sarah-Louise Young asks audience members to share their “live” memories of Julie Andrews and I couldn’t resist mentioning the fact that in 1974 when I taught in an...
by Johnny Fox | May 14, 2014 | Cabaret
The thing about David Bedella is you’ve heard the name but can’t immediately place him: he even plays on this with cabaret audiences who aren’t sure where they’ve seen him. With his striking saturnine looks and rich and remarkable baritone you think he must be a...
by Johnny Fox | Apr 6, 2014 | Cabaret, Reviews
Edith Giovanna Gassion known as Piaf died when I was ten. There can therefore be few audience members for tribute performances who heard her live other than those whose parents also carried their half-sleeping forms to a late concert. Yet as a performing icon she...
by Johnny Fox | Apr 1, 2014 | Cabaret, Circus
I blame Cirque du Soleil. Ever since they invented the glossy noisy empty brand that repackages hapless East European balancing acts into an £80-a-ticket oversell it has no longer been acceptable merely to don a pair of spangly tights to dance without a net upon the...
by Johnny Fox | Nov 26, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews
Russell Grant joined an impressive line-up for Ross Leadbeater’s celebration of the works of Ivor Novello. Of all the musical genres the Hippodrome Casino’s Matcham Room has showcased, who’d have thought that mid-century Ivor Novello would have been their...
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