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...
by Johnny Fox | Jul 27, 2015 | Cabaret
A shouty songbook show with a 1980s ‘Opportunity Knocks’ loser? Of hard rock? On a Sunday night? At the arse end of the District Line? What have I done to deserve this? Even though I’m a long-time Billy Joel fan, the prospect of a soundalike gig on the wrong side of...
by Johnny Fox | Jun 6, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews, Theatre
This needn’t detain us long. Four guys, not named Moe, not named anything you’ll remember from recent West End appearances as a matter of fact, have been scraped together to croon a battery of show tunes while pretending to be more rock band than romantic lead. The...
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