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Review: Mamma Mia! at the Palace Theatre, Manchester
When I think about the music of ABBA it immediately conjures memories of a cheesy wedding DJ set, the kind where everyone from your great-grandma, with her skirt hitched up round her knees, to your ten-year-old cousin throw shapes on the dance floor to the soundtrack of Dancing Queen.
Read the full story..Competition: Win tickets to Guys and Dolls, Manchester
Manchester Gets it First will see the highly acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre sell-out production of Guys and Dolls arrive at the Palace Theatre for two weeks only (November 10-21, 2015) prior to a West End transfer to London’s Savoy Theatre in December for a strictly limited 13-week run.
Read the full story..Review: 1984, Northern Ballet, Palace Theatre
Not long ago Northern Ballet’s artistic director David Nixon told me during rehearsals for this production that “it promises to challenge the idea of what stories can be told through dance”.
Read the full story..Win tickets to Godspell in Manchester
WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SEE GODSPELL AT THE PALACE THEATRE, MANCHESTER
Read the full story..Review: Shrek the Musical – Now I’m a Believer!
If you haven’t seen the trilogy of films and spin-offs about the bad tempered ogre who falls for a princess, it really doesn’t matter because Shrek the Musical works brilliantly as a standalone show.
Read the full story..Over the Rainbow: The Eva Cassidy Story
At the time of her death, Eva Cassidy was unknown outside her home town of Washington, DC.
Read the full story..Avenue Q
In America during the Great Depression there was a huge underground market for so-called ‘Tijuana bibles’, small bootleg comics which depicted the family-friendly cartoon stars of the day – Popeye, Dick Tracy – getting up all sorts of rude, adult and not at all family-friendly things.
Read the full story..John Cooper Clarke: the Bard of Salford
“Last time I came here,” says John Cooper Clarke, “it were 1958 and I’d come to see Bob Hope.”
Read the full story..West Side Story
Touring a classic musical – and West Side Story surely is one of the few undisputed classics – can be a bit of a double-edged sword.
Read the full story..From East to West: how one of the greatest ever musicals was made
I’m by no means the world’s biggest fan of musicals. But to have an undisputed classic like West Side Story coming into Manchester town just weeks after Singin’ In The Rain is surely enough to gladden the heart of the most curmudgeonly of critics.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
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