https://youtu.be/hlijaVOFuwE Written by Alan Parker Words and Music by Paul Williams Directed by Sean Holmes ★★★★ What gives? We were told there was a real nice speakeasy around this joint. And instead, what presents audiences as they walk into the Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre is a melancholy of monochrome, a soft tune humming in the background … Continue reading Bugsy Malone: The Musical – Edinburgh Playhouse
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Waitress – Edinburgh Playhouse
https://youtu.be/z_RMZURPGQ8 Book by Jessie Nelson Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles Directed by Diane Paulus ★★★★ The kitchen. The hub of the home where secrets are spilt, wine is poured, and all the best parties happen. A chore for some, the escape of cooking is a (literal) lifesaver for others, a place to have autonomy … Continue reading Waitress – Edinburgh Playhouse
Dreamgirls – Edinburgh Playhouse
https://youtu.be/P5TkbXqRB2U Book and Lyrics by Tom Eyen Composition by Henry Kreiger Direction and Choreography by Casey Nicholaw ★★★★★ Everyone has a dream. For some, it’s a shiny new Cadillac, for others it’s something more simplistic; approval – and for some, this form of acceptance manifests as the desire we all strive for secretly – fame. … Continue reading Dreamgirls – Edinburgh Playhouse
Hairspray – Edinburgh Playhouse
Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Directed by Paul Kerryson ★★★★ The flasher down the street, rats around your feet and the friendly bum on his barstool - you’d be forgiven for mistaking the bright and shimmering era of the sixties in Baltimore for the streets of … Continue reading Hairspray – Edinburgh Playhouse
Bat Out of Hell – Edinburgh Playhouse
Book, Music & Lyrics by Jim Steinman Directed by Jay Scheib ★★★★★ Roaring into Edinburgh, the streets may never be the same again. It'll certainly take a while to remove the tire tracks. Enveloping the Playhouse with its leather-clad embrace – Bat Out of Hell lands to thunderous applause and revelry. A dystopian fairy-tale, a manipulated and … Continue reading Bat Out of Hell – Edinburgh Playhouse
School of Rock – Edinburgh Playhouse
Music& Lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater Directed by Laurence Connor Book by Julian Fellowes ★★★★ In the beginning, there was Rock. Hardcore and legendary. Where did it all go wrong? Layabout, untidy and jobless – Dewey has more than his fair few problems, chief of them being his best friend’s newest partner … Continue reading School of Rock – Edinburgh Playhouse
Heathers The Musical – Edinburgh Playhouse
Books, Music & Lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe Directed by Andy Fickman ★★★★ Dear Diary; This evening, a glorification of suicide, loss, slut-shaming and high-notes were woven into a musical extravaganza – capitalising on the peak interest of nostalgia, and every second of it was mean-spirited, snappy, and sheer perfection. Heathers, the cinematic classic, … Continue reading Heathers The Musical – Edinburgh Playhouse
Blood Brothers – Edinburgh Playhouse
https://youtu.be/oL3IC6Q35VM Book, Song & Lyrics by Willy Russel Directed by Bob Tomson & Bill Kenwright ★★★★ Legendary - Willy Russell’s musical Blood Brothers, beloved across the country, draws the ancient philosophical narrative of nurture versus nature into the contemporary world. Downtrodden and faced with no alternative, Mrs Johnstone is scarcely able to feed her existing children … Continue reading Blood Brothers – Edinburgh Playhouse
Chicago – Edinburgh Playhouse
Music by John Kander Lyrics by Fred Ebb Book by Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse ★★★★ There are few more intoxicatingly enticing ways to begin a production than that of Chicago; “Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery and treachery…all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts.” Ebb and Bob Fosse’s Chicago places these seductive scintillations at the … Continue reading Chicago – Edinburgh Playhouse
9 To 5 – Edinburgh Playhouse
Music & Lyrics by Dolly Parton Book by Patricia Resnick Directed by Jeff Calhoun ★★★★ 545 days. That’s how long it’s been since the Edinburgh Playhouse roared with The Lion King’s juggernaut presence, and now it returns to the daily grind. Slapping the alarm clock, taking a few more minutes of rest, the sleeping giant … Continue reading 9 To 5 – Edinburgh Playhouse