West End shows

With thanks to fellow blogger West End Wilma, here are details of upcoming shows:

You are invited to an audience with Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas. The uniquely talented Australian singer and actor, Bernadette Robinson performs the critically acclaimed one-woman tour de force Songs For Nobodies at Wilton’s Music Hall for a strictly limited season. Written by award-winning playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, Songs For Nobodies showcases Robinson’s astonishing talent for recreating the great singers of the past. Commissioned and directed by former Artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Company Simon Phillips (Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the Musical), her moving and witty performance has earned rave reviews across sold-out seasons around the world. On stage for 90 minutes accompanied by live musicians, her miraculous voice shifts from the smoky blues of Billie Holiday to the thrilling soprano of Maria Callas, via Garland, Cline and Piaf. With consummate ease, she breathes new life into the five legendary performers and the five ordinary women whose lives were changed by their brush with fame.

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Equal parts dark comedy and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude is an idiosyncratic romantic fable told though the eyes of the most unlikely pairing: a compulsive, self-destructive young man and a devil-may-care, septuagenarian bohemian. Dame Marjorie “Maude” Chardin (Olivier Award-winner Sheila Hancock), is a free spirit who wears her hair in braids, believes in living each day to its fullest, and “trying something new every day”. Harold Parker Chasen (Bill Milner) is an 18-year-old man who is obsessed with death, attends funerals of strangers for entertainment and stages elaborate fake suicides. Through meeting Maude at a funeral, he discovers joy in living for the first time. Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with ones that separate people by class, gender and age. The cast also includes: Anthony Cable (The Woman in White, Charing Cross Theatre), Rebecca Caine (Flowers For Mrs Harris, Crucible Sheffield), Christopher Dickins (Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre), Joanna Hickman (Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre), Samuel Townsend (84 Charing Cross Road, Cambridge Arts Theatre), Anne White (Love in the Past Participle, The Other Palace) and Johnson Willis (Dido Queen of Carthage, RSC). Charing Cross Theatre’s artistic director Thom Southerland, (The Woman in White, Titanic), directs the production, with set design by Francis O’Connor, costume design by Jonathan Lipman, lighting design by Matt Clutterham, sound design from Andrew Johnson and music compositions by Michael Bruce.

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9 FEBRUARY - 31 MARCH 2018 Tickets From £17.50 The Arches, Villiers Street, London WC2N 6NL 08444 930 650 | charingcrosstheatre.co.uk

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★★★★★ “DUST DESERVES A STANDING OVATION” Edinburgh Fest Magazine A woman. A suicide. A choice. A lie. A truth. An ending. Of sorts. Life, Alice thinks, isn’t worth living. So she kills herself. But she’s stuck. A fly on the wall. Forced to watch the aftermath of her suicide and its ripple effect on her family and friends, Alice quickly learns that death changes people. And discovers that death isn’t the change she hoped for. Fresh from an award-winning, sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Dust by Milly Thomas (Clique, BBC3; Clickbait and A First World Problem, Theatre503), directed by Sara Joyce, now transfers to London’s Soho Theatre for a limited run. Tue 20 Feb – Sat 17 Mar 2018 3.30pm, 7.15pm Tickets from £14 TW: Please see website for details ★★★★ “IT MAKES YOU THINK, THIS ONE, AND SEE LIFE (AND DEATH) DIFFERENTLY” The Times Watch the trailer below: DUST SOHO THEATRE 20 FEBRUARY UNTIL 17 MARCH TICKETS FROM £14

Book your tickets fast!  Sir Ian Mckellen to star in West End transfer of King Lear Chichester Festival Theatre’s critically-acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, will run at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London for 100 performances only from 11th July to 3rd November 2018  following a sold-out season at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2017. Don't miss out on this show... click here to book now Have you subscribed to my YouTube channel? Make sure you click here and subscribe to my YouTube channel because I post loads of great interviews with theatre stars, as well as theatre related Vlogs, show trailers and some of my Instagram Takeover's that the cast of shows do for me. Subscribe now and get notified when ever a new video goes live! What's not to love? Subscribe here Do you use Social Media? Click the links below to follow me! Facebook Twitter Instagram Website Copyright © 2018 West End Wilma, PO Box 73609, London SE13 9EE. All rights reserved.

Mel Giedroyc joins the cast of Stephen Sondheim's musical, Company, at the Gielgud Theatre from 26 September 2018. She joins Rosalie Craig as Bobbi, a role re-imagined for the first time as a woman, and Broadway star Patti LuPone as Joanne. Read more Up in Aberdeen, another production of Company is currently taking place starring ex-Wicked musical alumni Oliver Savile, Suzie Mathers, Ashleigh Gray and Jacqueline Hughes! Today, Suzie Mathers and the cast are taking over my Instagram story for the day, showing us what goes on backstage! Make sure you follow along here today! In other news...  For those of you who may not have heard, a little over a week ago I moved to (rainy) Paris for a new adventure just the other side of the water from London. So what are the key things I learnt during my first seven days in Paris? Find out here Facebook Twitter Instagram Website Copyright © 2018 West End Wilma, PO Box 73609, London SE13 9EE. All rights reserved.