Review: BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS at the Bristol Hippodrome
★★★★☆This is a tremendously entertaining show … it’s got just about everything that one could want from a family-friendly musical
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Author: Mike Whitton
Review: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ offers a great daft dollop of thoroughly enjoyable spoofery
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Review: The LATE-IVITY at Bath Ustinov Theatre and The Wardrobe Bristol
★★★★☆ Living Spit are back with their gloriously irreverent version of the Christmas story, previously called The Nativity, but tweaked here and there for this post-Christmas revival
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Review: BEGINNING at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ Boy meets girl, and seduction is the plan, but here the protagonists are around 40, and it is the woman who is the would-be seducer. The scene is the aftermath of a house-warming party in Laura’s flat, with cans, bottles and half-finished food scattered everywhere. All the guests have gone, except for Danny, who seems undecided about whether or not to stay.
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Review: GREASE – THE MUSICAL at Bristol Hippodrome
★★★★☆ This vibrant, fast-paced version is not quite as glossily sanitised as the 1978 movie, but it is family friendly, the emphasis being on song and dance, rather than on social realism. Yes, the greasers strut their stuff in their leather jackets, but though they are in a gang, they are a long way from being gangsters.
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