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May 31, 2018 / 0 Comments
Sondheim’s Assassins marks ten years of What We Did Next
COMMUNITY musical theatre group What We Did Next celebrates ten years of productions this year – and are bringing Stephen Sondheim’s dark, Tony award-winning Assassins to the Unity next week.
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January 17, 2018 / 0 Comments
Open auditions for Sondheim’s Assassins
If you fancy a new challenge for 2018, look no further than community theatre group What We Did Next, who are about to start auditions for their next production, Assassins. Assassins is a revue-style musical depicting historical events in the USA from 1865 to 1974, written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. Most of the […]
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October 29, 2017 / 0 Comments
INTERVIEW: Jinkx Monsoon
It’s nearly November, which means Homotopia is here – and for the first time, the LGBT+ arts festival is bringing a RuPaul’s Drag Race winner to Liverpool. We’re talking season five’s Jinkx Monsoon, an incredible singer and comic performer from Seattle, whose seasoned double-act The Vaudevillians is booked for two sold-out shows at the Unity […]
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July 4, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Pippin, Unity Theatre
Whether the company knows it or not, What We Did Next has a bit of a feel for being ahead of the curve. Their latest production Pippin is also being revived later this summer at the so-hot-right-now Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester – but obviously, WWDN got there first. They’ve also brought shows like Rent […]
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May 8, 2017 / 0 Comments
Liverpool schoolboy to be Empire’s Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot the Musical opens at the Liverpool Empire this week – with a local lad in the starring role. Fourteen-year-old Adam Abbou is one of four boys playing Billy on the show’s national tour. Adam trains at Dance Dynamix in Old Swan. He has competed in various regional and national dance championships, and is […]
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February 24, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Fiddler on the Roof, Liverpool Everyman
Tradition – something the Everyman has always been respectful of, but likes to add its own playful, unique twist. In the last twelve months alone, those Two Gents of Verona were yanked into the Swingin’ Sixties and Madame Bovary went meta; but with Fiddler on the Roof, its first production for 2017 and the debut […]
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February 11, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Julie Atherton, Edge Hill Arts Centre
It was another musical theatre coup at Edge Hill this week, as Preston-born West End star Julie Atherton took to the Arts Centre stage, for a fun and enjoyable one-night event. She set out her stall with parody number Portrait of a Princess (perhaps better known for its repeated comic lyric, ‘not in a Disney […]
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January 20, 2017 / 2 Comments
REVIEW: Ramin Karimloo and the Broadgrass Band, Edge Hill Arts Centre
It was a cold, Monday January night in the unassuming market town of Ormskirk. What’s to do? Why, Broadway royalty dropping in on the local arts centre, of course. It still seems quite unbelievable that Edge Hill Arts Centre pulled off such a coup (they were rightfully delighted); something that only appeared in their listings […]
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October 17, 2016 / 0 Comments
There’s Three Sides to What We Did Next…
Liverpool theatre group What We Did Next return next week with the North West premiere of the off-Broadway musical Three Sides. Written by Grant Olding – the composer of smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors – it is described as “a rom com for the modern age”. After a depressing new year, a chance meeting […]
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June 14, 2016 / 0 Comments
Tenor Stefan Pop heading to Liverpool
Celebrated Romanian tenor Stefan Pop will sing in his first ever Liverpool concert next week. Pop, winner of many high-profile singing competitions including the Seoul International Music Competition and Plácido Domingo’s Operalia for young up-and-coming artists, will perform a recital in the Concert Room at St George’s Hall on June 25 as part of The […]
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May 22, 2016 / 0 Comments
Mod Musical is dream come true for LIPA producer
Up-and-coming theatre producer Max Emmerson has come a long way since graduating from LIPA last year – and his biggest show to date has just opened at Liverpool Royal Court. His revival of Shout! The Mod Musical began life as part of his degree course, and was so successful it had two stints at the […]
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April 24, 2016 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Dorothy’s War, Edge Hill Arts Centre
A new full length show by three-part harmony group The Harmonettes turns its attention to WWI in a tender and intriguing tale about women and war – with songs, of course. Dorothy’s War intertwines the incredible true story of journalist Dorothy Lawrence – who disguised herself as a soldier and cycled to France to observe […]
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August 17, 2015 / 0 Comments
Priscilla returns
The full cast has been announced for the upcoming UK tour of the international smash hit musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which parks up at the Liverpool Empire from January 25 to 30 next year. via GIPHY Joining the previously announced Jason Donovan (*cheers*), who reprises the role of Tick, are Simon Green as […]
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July 6, 2015 / 0 Comments
“Come party Hoffstyle”
It was only a matter of time before an announcement that David Hasselhoff himself would make it onto the Empire stage – and it would have been fair to assume we’d be talking panto. But no! Turns out The Hoff has signed up for a new jukebox musical of eighties and nineties hits called (deep […]
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June 3, 2015 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Producers, Liverpool Empire
The Producers doesn’t so much overstep the mark as plow over it in a Panzer. It’s offensive and raucous. It’s crude. And this latest production of Mel Brooks’s classic satire is absolutely brilliant. It is, of course, the musical version of the 1967 movie of the same name, which tells the tale of crooked Broadway […]
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April 12, 2015 / 0 Comments
Calamity Jane heads to the Empire
There’s no such thing as too much Jodie Prenger, and she heads back over to Liverpool next month in the lead of a new national tour of Calamity Jane. The tour follows on from a sell out run at the Watermill Newbury theatre, where they claim it was such a success it could […]
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February 15, 2015 / 0 Comments
21 years of Twopence
A new stage production of one of Scouse nostlgia-lit’s greatest exports, Helen Forrester’s hit Twopence To Cross The Mersey, is embarking on a six-week tour of four Merseyside theatres. The tour will visit Liverpool, Southport, St Helens and New Brighton over March and April. Twopence to Cross the Mersey – a favourite of Caitlin Moran’s, […]
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November 7, 2014 / 0 Comments
Musical comedy [title of show] at the Lantern
That’s not a typo – the title of the show is indeed [title of show], a New York comedy musical being performed by What We Did Next later this month. Following the theatre company’s sell-out production of Carousel at the Unity in June, they say audiences should prepare for “laugh out loud moments, gorgeous […]
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September 22, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Wicked, Liverpool Empire
Sometimes in life, you just need a spectacle. A special night out to look forward to, something out of the ordinary; Wicked is what you’re looking for on all counts. A Broadway and West End smash over the last decade, the show – in case you didn’t know – tells the ‘untold story’ of […]
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July 12, 2014 / 2 Comments
REVIEW: Betty Blue Eyes, Liverpool Playhouse
Critics loved Betty Blue Eyes when opened in the West End in 2011, but the run didn’t last long. Based on Alan Bennett’s 1984 screenplay A Private Function, even at the time producer Cameron Macintosh foresaw a revival. Think of bringing a West End musical to Liverpool, and the Playhouse isn’t the first place you’d […]
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