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Music: Richard Rogers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II Director: Bartlett Sher Reviewer: Marina Spark The Public Reviews Rating: Southampton was treated to an enchanted evening last night with the Lincoln Centre Theater’s production of ‘South Pacific’ at The Mayflower. This classic musical, first staged in 1949, has been respected in this production and fans of the 1958 movie will [...]

Book and Lyrics: Roger S Moss Music: Robert Scott Director: David Morgan Reviewer: Marina Spark The Public Reviews Rating: A boy who never wants to grow up, a villain with a hook as a hand and a giant, man eating crocodile; do these things sound familiar? At The Mayflower, Southampton we were treated to an evening of musical [...]

Composer: Rossini Librettist: Cesare Sterbini Translator: Robert David Macdonald Director: Giles Havergal Conductor: Simon Phillippo Reviewer: Ann Bawtree The Public Reviews Rating: The Welsh National Opera was in its usual excellent form at Southampton’s huge Mayflower Theatre on December 1st. Playing to a virtually capacity audience it has only one more performance of “The Barber of Seville” to [...]

The hit Tony Award winning musical American Idiot will be premiering at The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton next year (Oct—Dec 2012) with a full US cast before embarking on a national tour. Described by the New York Times as “the most adventurous musical to brave Broadway in the past decade,” American Idiot features the songs of [...]

Composer/Librettist: Leos Janacek Conductor: Gareth Jones Director: Katie Mitchell Reviewer: Marina Spark The Public Reviews Rating: The opening notes of the Welsh National Opera’s ‘Katya Kabanova’ beautifully hint at the tale of woe that unfolds over the opera, composed by Leos Janacek. The storyline follows Katya Kabanova, a woman trapped in both a loveless marriage and a moralistic [...]

Writer: Mary Norton Adapter: Charles Way Director: Patrick Sandford Reviewer: Sarah Louise Forrester The Public Reviews Rating: This years festive offering at The Nuffield Theatre is an adaptation of the classic children’s story “The Borrowers”. The Borrowers is a tale of the Clock family, tiny people who live under the floorboards of a country house in England. They [...]

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Librettist: Lorenzo da Ponte Conductor: James Southall Director: John Caird Reviewer: Marina Spark The Public Reviews Rating: Last night The Mayflower Theatre was bussing with the anticipation and excitement that an opera invites. ‘Don Giovanni’, one of Mozart’s darkest masterpieces did not disappoint when it came to high tension, intrigue and drama. The set [...]

In the immortal words of Slade … IT’S CHRISTMAS! Well, not quite yet, but we’re well on our way to the festive season as December approaches. Theatres up and down the country are accordingly decking their auditoriums with boughs of holly and inviting the sort of silliness that at any other time of year would [...]