Apr 13
I saw Les Misérables for the one and only time in the mid 90’s in London’s west end. My luvvie-other-half has seen it a handful of times, and yesterday we took our daughter to the show that has been seen by 130 million people worldwide since it’s first showing in Paris in 1980.
The show is a long as two football matches, plus half-time and with no injuries it goes for over 3 hours.
Please click for moreI first started seeing my social media feeds filling up with pictures of dark eye-catching churches and historic theatres with a classical quartet sat amongst flickering candles at the end of last year, but candlelight concerts have been wowing audiences in hundreds of cities since 2020.
Candlelight Concerts has since became a successful brand under its parent company Fever, which is a global entertainment platform, and has struck upon a very winning formula.
Please click for moreI was lucky enough to see Hamilton on Broadway 6 years ago, and today I went again with the family to see the touring production at the Van Wezel Theater in Sarasota, and it did not disappoint.
I was told before my first viewing that it was a show you’d have to see a number of times as with each visit you make new discoveries. In fact I have a mate who has watched it a couple of dozen times, and he might only just be able to tell the complete Alexander Hamilton story.
Please click for moreI’m on my way home to Bermuda after almost a week back at, er, home in the UK seeing family, mates and those Addicks.
I have been in Eastbourne most of the trip, my parents live just outside the town, and although it has been bloody freezing, Eastbourne did live up to it’s billing of the Sunshine Coast.
Please click for moreOur daughter becomes a teenager this week, and to kick off her teenage odyssey we took her to New York this past weekend.
We’ve taken her to NYC a few times before, but she was much younger then and her fascination with life has matured.
Please click for moreMaybe I’ve been locked up indoors too long, but I think the first person I may hug after all this is over is Simon Jordan.
In event times the ex-Palace owner and chairman has stood up for Charlton and it’s supporters more than Richard Murray has done for years. The world has changed, a lot, but who would have thought that in 2006?
Hamilton has been sweeping the theatre world and has become one of the biggest musical shows of all time, and I managed to get to see it last weekend in New York, where it sells out every night and ticket sales are said to average $600,000 a week. Perhaps the almost 100-year old Richard Rogers Theater could spash out a few bucks on an additional toilet, as the three story Broadway building only has one in the basement.
Never mind, that’s the nit-picking out of the way. I walked into the theatre, well queued for a fair bit, with no pre-determined judgements, in fact no real pre-determined ideas of what the hell Hamilton was about either.
One thing for sure was that I sure as hell didn’t realize that the whole show is done in song, which made it initially hard to follow, especially as the majority of the songs are in the form of hip-hop, rap and RnB. However, I started to work out the theme of the story being told, although my one regret was not giving myself a quick Wikipedia brush up on my American history beforehand.
Sarasota, Florida
