Posts Tagged ‘Alexander Hanson’
Monday 15 November 2010
” I nearly wore my bow tie, thank goodness I didn’t,” mused Andrew as the Hamiltons breezed through the foyer of the Vaudeville Theatre at the press night of Oscar Wilde‘s An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre. Andrew hates competition.
It was another glittering, but surprisingly celebrity-lite opening. Neil and Christine were there, the former sporting a pink bow artfully matched with Christine’s outfit.
But it has given Phil an idea. Next time the Whingers will coordinate too. Andrew will wear something blue to set off Phil’s varicose veins and Phil will wear something mis-shapen to match Andrew’s face.
Lesley Garrett was there too. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in West End Whingers | 5 Comments »
Tags: Alexander Hanson, An Ideal Husband, comedy, entertainment, London, Oscar Wilde, play, Rachael Stirling, review, Samantha Bond, theatre, Vaudeville Theatre, west end
Friday 16 April 2010
Yes, A Little Night Music again, but with Catherine Zeta-Jones…
…but without Angela Lansbury.
Oh, how we agonised over this one. To see or not to see? We’d already loved the Menier production, could its Broadway incarnation match up? Could we ever get over the fact Ms Lansbury had decided to take her 2 week vacation just as the Whingers arrived in New York?
Well yes and no. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: A Little Night Music, Aaron Lazar, Alexander Hanson, Angela Lansbury, Bradley Dean, broadway, Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Farley, entertainment, Erin Davie, Hugh Wheeler, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Katherine McNamara, Leigh Anne Larkin, Menier, Menier Chocolate Factory, musical, New York, Ramona Mallory, review, Stephen R. Buntrock, Stephen Sondheim, Theater, theatre, Trevor Nunn, Walter Kerr Theatre
Monday 1 December 2008
This was the show the Whingers had been waiting for.
Not because the Whingers love Sondheim (they do). Not because they wanted to see if Trevor Nunn could atone for the terrible sins he committed with Gone With the Wind – The Musical! (he has). Or to see if, at 34, Hannah Waddingham would convince as the youngest ever Desirée Armfeldt (she did).
No, rising like a shining beacon of common sense and democracy above all of this was the news that A Little Night Music was to be the first production at the Menier Chocolate Factory where they dropped their absurd and unpopular unreserved seating policy*. Yeah! Good old Menier, the Whingers hoops had never been so cocked (or should that be the other way round?). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in A Little Night Music, alex hanson, entertainment, Hannah Waddingham, Hannah Waddington, Hartley T A Kemp, Hugh Wheeler, Ingmar Bergman, Jason Carr, Jessie Buckley, Kelly Price, London, Maureen Lipman, Menier Chocolate Factory, musicals, off-West End, review, Smiles of a Summer Night, Stephen Sondheim, theatre, Trevor Nunn | 13 Comments »
Tags: A Little Night Music, Alexander Hanson, Hannah Waddingham, Hannah Waddington, Hartley T A Kemp, Hugh Wheeler, Ingmar Bergman, Jason Carr, Jessie Buckley, Kelly Price, London, Maureen Lipman, Menier Chocolate Factory, musical, off-West End, review, Smiles of a Summer Night, Stephen Sondheim, theatre, Trevor Nunn
Sunday 11 May 2008
It’s not every day you get a chance to see the kazongas of the person who won the Theatregoers’ Award for the Most Popular Musical Actress in The Last 21 Years (or one of her kazongas, anyway).
But that was the surprising position the West End Whingers found themselves in at a preview of the new musical Marguerite ( – The Musical!). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Alain Boubil, Alexander Hanson, Alexandre Dumas, Annalene Beechey, Claude-Michel Schonberg, entertainment, Herbert Kretzmer, Jonathan Kent, Julian Ovenden, La Dame aux camélias, London, Marguerite, Matt Cross, Michel Legrand, musical, review, Ruthie Henshall, Simon Thomas, theatre, west end | 12 Comments »
Tags: Alain Boubil, Alexander Hanson, Alexandre Dumas, Annalene Beechey, Claude-Michel Schonberg, entertainment, Herbert Kretzmer, Jonathan Kent, Julian Ovenden, La Dame aux camélias, London, Marguerite, Matt Cross, Michel Legrand, musical, review, Ruthie Henshall, Simon Thomas, theatre, west end
