Posts Tagged ‘James Lapine’
Wednesday 17 December 2014
Who ever thought they’d see a film where Annette Crosbie is eaten alive by Johnny Depp?
Then again who ever thought we’d write about a film? Yes, a bit out of our comfort zone this, reviewing a trip to the flicks. Though the comfort of most picture houses is far greater than almost any theatre seat.
But since this cinematic entertainment is based on the Stephen Sondheim stage musical that Phil has seen about half a dozen times in various forms, including the original Broadway and London productions he just wanted to show off. He saw a preview of Into the Woods a week ago and frustratingly has been sitting on a most uncomfortable embargo ever since. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anna Kendrick, Annette Crosbie, Chris Pine, Christine Baranski, Daniel Huttlestone, Emily Blunt, entertainment, film, Frances de la Tour, Into the Woods, James Lapine, Johnny Depp, London, MacKenzie Mauzy, Meryl Streep, movie, musical, review, Rob Marshall, Simon Russell Beale, Stephen Sondheim, The Stephen Sondheim Society, Tracey Ullman
Wednesday 18 August 2010
There are some marriages made in heaven. Not that of the Whingers, of course. Their uneasy, warped version of wedlock is one parboiled over the flames of hell, yet still half-baked.
But whoever came up with the idea of staging Into the Woods in the gloriously seemly setting that is the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre should be appropriately ennobled. The biggest question is: why has it taken them so long?
With memories of previous years’ Hello Dolly! and Gigi still transforming the Whingers’ usual grimacing countenances into beaming smiles (despite the downpours of rain encountered on both occasions) expectations were raised to an unreasonably imprudent level. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Beverly Rudd, Billy Boyle, entertainment, Gaye Browne, Hannah Waddingham, Helen Dallimore, Into the Woods, James Lapine, Jenna Russell, Judi Dench, London, Mark Hadfield, Michael Xavier, musical, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, review, Simon Thomas, Soutra Gilmour, Stephen Sondheim, theatre, Timothy Sheader
Saturday 24 April 2010

We’re still here.
And despite our involuntary extended status as Broadway babies it wasn’t the least bit difficult to observe the embargo on this show.
Sondheim on Sondheim officially opened at Studio 54 on Thursday night.
The Bellyachers had graced it with their presence at last Sunday’s matinee but had to keep their traps shut until yesterday. Which was a relief really as we’ve been getting way behind with our posts and just when we almost catch up we ruin it all by going to see something else. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Barbara Cook, Beowulf Boritt, broadway, David Loud, entertainment, Erin Mackey, Euan Morton, James Lapine, Leslie Kritzer, Matthew Scott, musical, New York, Norm Lewis, review, Sondheim on Sondheim, Stephen Sondheim, Studio 54, Theater, theatre, Tom Wopat, Vanessa Williams