Guides to the musicals amateur societies love to stage: plot, songs, characters and notes on UK amateur licensing, plus the types of musical explained.
For generations, commentators treated football and theatre as entirely separate worlds. One was cast aside as a loud terrace pursuit defined by rain, hot pies, and local loyalty, while the…
From its controversial debut to its enduring power, my complete guide to Jesus Christ Superstar. Plot, songs, characters, and why it still hits hard.
What constitutes a musical stage production? To the casual theatregoer, it is simply a performance where actors sing and dance to entertain an audience. To the industry professional, director, or…
What exactly constitutes a musical? At its core, musical theatre is an artistic medium that synthesizes songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance to communicate a narrative or explore a thematic…
There is arguably no more beautiful collection of songs in all of musical theatre than the score of South Pacific. Set the scene: it’s the Second World War, the location…
Everything you need to know about Calendar Girls the musical — the story, the songs, the characters, and why it’s one of the best choices for amateur theatre. A warm, witty guide.
If there is one musical that every theatre person, amateur or professional, should know inside out, it’s Oklahoma!. It’s not just a beloved show. It’s the show that changed everything.…
Most people know You’ll Never Walk Alone. They just don’t necessarily know it from a theatre. They know it from a football terrace, or a graduation ceremony, or that moment…
Rodgers and Hammerstein were an American songwriting partnership who wrote together from 1943 until Oscar Hammerstein II’s death in 1960. Richard Rodgers composed the music. Hammerstein wrote the book and…
Last week we finally took Boogie Nights the Seventies Musical to the stage. Five months of rehearsing finally came to life and without wanting to sound like a cliché, it…
