There is, of course, one moment where staging Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I” ‘in the round’ at the Royal Albert Hall well and truly comes into its own – and that’s the moment where Anna and the King of Siam finally (and really quite erotically) lock arms and bodies and enjoy a climactic … [Read More]

It’s been pretty much open season on nuns since “The Sound of Music” and really there can be no greater irony than Alan Menken and lyricist whiz-kid Glenn Slater’s “Sister Act” following that venerable show into the Palladium. Needless to say London’s old variety theatre is now rocking to a very different mode of “Do … [Read More]