Tag/category: theatre
High notes are low point for Les Mis lead
In an otherwise solid and ticket-worthy performance, David Shannon as Valjean in Les Mis marred a couple of his solo numbers with very insipid high notes, many of them falsetto when they are traditionally sung in full chest voice. I know it’s hard, night after night, 8 performances a week popping out top As and Bs so I wonder whether …
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Brief Encounter (Not the film!) review
I don’t think I’ve seen anything better on the London stage. Playing at (of all places) Cineworld Haymarket, Kneehigh are keen advertise it as A PLAY and not the 1944 John Lean film. Yet it’s not the original Noel Coward play either but a conflation of the two. So it’s a play of the film of the play. This was …
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