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Whistle Down The Wind – Opera House, Manchester

Music: Andrew Lloyd-Webber Lyrics: Jim Steinman Book: Patricia Knopp & Gale Edwards Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: ★★½☆☆ ‘The Lord’ as he has been affectionately named in recent years, may be getting mixed reviews for his latest production to open in the West End, but one thing the critics unanimously agreed on was his [...]

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Whistle Down the Wind – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Jim Steinman Book: Patricia Knop, Gale Edwards & Andrew Lloyd Webber Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Director Bill Kenwright appears to have transformed the original 1998 high octane, ‘in your face’, full on impact rocking monster of a musical into a pipe and slippers affair. Even the rawness of the kids [...]

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Whistle Down the Wind – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield

Music: Andrew Lloyd-Webber Lyrics: Jim Steinman Book: Mary Hayley Bell Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Sarah Lyth The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Whistle down the Wind opens with a rather twee set of events that establish the scene in the Bible belt of America…fundamental in belief, archaic in social values and really rather cheesy in this 21st Century era of [...]

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Whistle Down the Wind- Liverpool Empire

Whistle Down The Wind - Liverpool1

Music: Andrew Lloyd-Webber Lyrics: Jim Steinman Book: Mary Hayley Bell Director Bill Kenwright Reviewer Steph Rowe The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★★ Well after years of trying I have finally made it to see the production of ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ and I was not disappointed. After watching the original 1961 film staring, Hayley Mills and Alan Bates, I did [...]

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