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Music and book: Ivor Novello Lyrics: Alan Melville Book adaptation: Richard Stirling Director/Choreographer: Stewart Nicholls The Public Reviews Rating: Gay’s the Word was Ivor Novello’s last musical, following a stellar acting and writing career boasting hit show Perchance to Dream and, of course, his catalogue of nationally treasured songs such as Keep the Home Fires Burning and We’ll [...]

Music: Tim Prottey-Jones Book: Robert Gould/Sarah Henley Direction: Sarah Henley Reviewer: Lucy Thackray The Public Reviews Rating: After the Turn first hits you with its original plot. Michael (Liam Doyle) is a talented young musician on the brink of making it big with his band when his single mother Amanda (Ashleigh Gray) is killed in an accident. Michael shuts down [...]

Books/Music/Lyrics: Dougal Irvine Director: Sally Rapier Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: It is hard to believe that a little over a year ago, InSTEP Theatre company who originated out of LIPA produced their debut production, a rather splendid and well perfectly formed presentation of Jason Robert Browns’ song cycle Songs for a New World. 12 months [...]

Writer: Ross Mills, Ged Graham, Ryan Mills Director: Ross Mills Creative Director: Ged Graham Choreographer: Robyn Ford Composer and Arranger: Liam Holmes and Ged Graham Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating:   Route 66, the fabled American highway immortalised on film and in song – a fitting backdrop for a new rock musical, especially one produced in [...]

Book, Music & Lyrics: Lionel Bart Director: Laurence Connor Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Producer Cameron Mackintosh alongside director Laurence Connor wowed us two years ago with their spectacular 25th Anniversary production of Les Miserables. They teamed up once again to offer us the sensational Royal Albert Hall staged anniversary production of Phantom of the Opera [...]

Writer:Helen Edmundson Music:Neil Hannon Lyrics:Neil Hannon Director:Tom Morris Reviewer:Samantha Currie The Public Reviews Rating: Swallows and Amazons is currently at the beginning of a UK tour after playing at the Bristol Old Vic and the West End. Directed by Tom Morris, the co-director of War Horse, with music and lyrics by Neil Hannon. The book is, of course [...]

Music and Lyrics: Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin Director and Choreographer: Jerry Mitchell Book: Heather Hach Reviewer: Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: Recently out of the West End, Legally Blonde is one of those musicals which began as a book, went on to being a film and has emerged as a musical. It is a fun and [...]

Director & Choreographer: Mitch Sebastian Vocal & Musical Supervisor: Matthew Freeman Reviewer: Angela Wilson The Public Reviews Rating: The glamour and glitz of Las Vegas comes to Leicester this week as the Rat Pack hits town. Curve is transformed into the chic Copa Room nightclub at the Sands Hotel in its 1960s heyday, when Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin [...]