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Composer: Maestro Silvio Amato Director/Choreographer: Cavalieri Giuseppe Arena Reviewer: Emily Daughtery The Public Reviews Rating: Being a huge fan of Disney’s animated Snow White meant I sat down with excited anticipation to watch the Russian Ice Stars performance of Snow White on Ice at the Mayflower in Southampton, and I was not disappointed. From the start this well [...]

Writers: Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cook Director: Michael Kingsbury Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: Utilising much of the original Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke material from the 1969/70 ‘Stop Messing About’ radio series the show enables the audience to step back in time and imagine they are there, in the studio, as part of the original [...]

Writer Nora Ephron Adaptor: Marcy Kahan Composer: Ben and Jamie Callum Director: Michael Gyngell Reviewer: Nick Hutchinson The Public Reviews Rating: Many people will recognise the title of this play as it is based on the film starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan from 1989. This is light theatre with a message about diversity and human nature but [...]

Creator & Director: Emily Watson Howes Reviewer: Hannah Badrock The Public Reviews Rating: Intimate, moving and claustrophobic, ‘Certain Dark Things’ draws its audience in from the moment they are seated. This piece of devised work is brought to the stage by You Need Me Theatre Company. Originally commissioned back in 2008 the Company have since developed and researched [...]

Director: Karen Bruce Musical Director: Jeff Leach Reviewer: Aisha Hutchinson The Public Reviews Rating: This inaugural show, which comes out of BBC1’s incredibly popular ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, enables some of the shows professional dancers to strut their stuff without being held back by celebrity learners! The 12 week tour showcases many new routines (to a live band) by [...]

Music: Marc Shaiman Lyrics: Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman Book: Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan Director: Jack O’Brien Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: The phenomenon that is Hairspray has hit the Mayflower and already the three week run is very close to a sell out. Based on the 1988 John Waters film, this musical version then [...]

Composed: Bill Whelan Director: John McColgan Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: A 2010 cast of sheer quality means that, even 15 years on and slimmed down, Riverdance is still as spectacular and thoroughly entertaining as when it first hit the stage. Born out of the interval entertainment at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Bill [...]

Music: Sergei Prokoficv Choreographer: Michael Corder Conductor: Alex Ingram Reviewer: Emily Daughtery The Public Reviews Rating: I was particularly thrilled to be in the audience of the English National Ballet’s Cinderella because I last viewed it from the stage as I stood as the page boy in Act II ten years ago. Consequently I settled down with [...]