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Book/Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse Music: Frank Wildhorn Director: Martin Connor Reviewer: Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating:   Jekyll and Hyde a musical – whatever next!!!! Ex Wet Wet Wet lead singer, the very versatile Marti Pellow, has moved on a lot since his pop star days. Several years ago he branched out into musicals appearing in well-known and loved shows [...]

Music: Tango Siempre Choreography: Vincent Simone, Flavia Cacace Director:Karen Bruce Reviewer:Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: Strictly Come Dancing’s talented and popular pairing Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace strut their way into Milton Keynes this week to bring us a breathtaking soiree of exotic dance, passion and drama, presented by Arlene Phillips and Adam Spiegel. Midnight Tango is [...]

Writer: Agatha Christie Director:Joe Harmston Reviewer:Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: In Milton Keynes this week the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, now in its sixth year, gives us ‘The Queen of Crime’s’ Verdict. The most important aspect of Verdict is that this is a drama a world apart from the whodunit in Agatha Christie’s classic style. In this [...]

Music/Lyrics: Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey Director:David Gilmore Reviewer:Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: It’s electrifying!-One of the greatest musicals, Grease, is back on the road and at Milton Keynes Theatre for two weeks! Get out your leather jackets, put on your dancing shoes and be prepared for a fun-filled, high energy show. You will not be disappointed! [...]

Author:Adrian Grant Music and Lyrics:Michael Jackson Director/Choreographer:Gary Lloyd Reviewer:Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: Thriller Live is a spectacular concert created to celebrate the career of one of the world’s greatest showmen. Moonwalking its way around the world, the award-winning director Gary Lloyd’s Thriller Live brings to us the awesome dancing and very distinctive sound of Michael Jackson [...]

Composer:Claude-Michel Schonberg Director David Nixon Reviewer:Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: Most people will know of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra but here is a very different one! This story tells us of the young Cleopatra, who weds her brother Ptolemy to get to the throne of Egypt, who commits murder and who later is the seductress of both Julius Caesar [...]

Composer: Verdi Libretto: Cammerano Director: Peter Watson Reviewer:Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: Love, vengeance and betrayal in 15th century Spain, so the billing goes Twenty years ago, Azucena’s gypsy mother was burned by the Count di Luna for practising sorcery on his family. In retaliation Azucena is said to have thrown one of di Luna’s two sons [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Roger Haines Reviewer: Rachael Martin The Public Reviews Rating: Upon hearing the words ‘Calendar Girls’, most people will think about the 2003 film release starring Julie Walters and the now Dame Helen Mirren. However a current theatrical production of the Calendar Girls story, directed by Roger Haines, has taken London’s West End by storm, [...]