Viva Forever! isn’t the clunker it’s been labelled. It’s also not the thin gruel of the standard West-End jukebox musical. The real problem is that it can never be Mamma Mia!, the glob…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMIn Beatles’ lore, the Prince of Wales Theatre is totemic. Here, on 4 November 1963, the cheeky quartet played the Royal Command Performance before the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. J…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00PMThe fright wig is instantly recognisable. Even with her back turned, it’s obviously Tina Tuner on stage. Expect it isn’t. It’s actress Emi Wokoma playing the singer in a performance vi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMFrank Sinatra might have come to dislike being branded as part of the Rat Pack, but the phrase stuck and still sticks. Judging by last night’s Christmas-slanted show, just as he, Dean Mart…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:00AMIt’s obviously a coincidence. Backbeat, the story of The Beatles’ Hamburg days, their ill-fated bassist and John Lennon art school-mate Stuart Sutcliffe hits the West End the same week t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:40AMA long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, all women were dressed by Frederick's of Hollywood and all men were a cross between David Lee Roth and Jon Bon Jovi. The Eighties-set Rock of Ages …
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