Now it’s not very often that music from a movie musical makes it into the mainstream world, being played on radio and television on a regular basis, but there is one movie musical that has achieved this, and that is The Greatest Showman. The 2017 Hugh Jackman led spectacular went global, and made stars of…
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‘I’m putting on my best show!’ – Annie (2014) review
The trend of remaking classic movies has been around for a number of years now, and it was only going to be so long before the trend reached the movie musical genre. We should have expected it really. Annie has already had the remake treatment once, when the original 1982 movie was given the Disney…
‘They ask you what was the high point’ – Jersey Boys (2014) movie review
Jersey Boys has been a hit musical all over the world since it first opened in 2005, and has been seen on Broadway, in the West End and in Melbourne, as well as multiple touring productions. In 2014, Clint Eastwood brought the stage show to the big screen and in a change from the norm…
‘Jamie is over and Jamie is gone’ – The Last Five Years (2014) review
With the tagline ‘there are two sides to every love story’, Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is a deconstruction of a marriage set almost entirely to music. We meet Cathy and Jamie, a struggling actress and a successful writer, and are taken through the story of their troublesome relationship on two alternating timelines….
‘Life is short, the world is wide’ – Mamma Mia: Here we go again (2018) review
Remakes and sequels seem to be a growing trend in the film industry these days, and in 2018 that trend even reached the world of movie musicals with Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again. Released nearly ten years to the date since the first movie, Here We Go Again takes us back to the island…
‘I Read Mum’s Diary, And I have Three Possible Fathers’ – Mamma Mia! (2008) Review
It’s strange to think that Mamma Mia! came out nearly twelve years ago. It was the film that brought the movie musical back to the big screen with an all singing, all dancing bang and sent movie goers into an ABBA loving frenzy. Screenings sold out up and down the country and the time that…
‘Oh Well, I Never, Was There Ever’ – A movie as weird as Cats (Review)
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Cats’ opened back in 1981 and enjoyed a run lasting 21 years in London’s West End, where there has been a number of successful revivals since. It also played for 18 years on Broadway. It was one of those shows that no one thought would do well, after all it’s a show…
‘To the Greatest Show on Earth!’ – Barnum (Live Recording 1986) Review
Long before we were spellbound by the Hollywood spectacular that was ‘The Greatest Showman’, there was Barnum. With music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Michael Stewart, Barnum tells the life story of the legendary Circus master Phineas Taylor Barnum from his American Museum in 1835 to the famous Barnum and Bailey travelling show in…
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