This year’s Footlights Northcott offering is a production of the one and only Oklahoma. With music and libretto by the ineffable Rodgers and Hammerstein, for years the show has been a complete critical and commercial success. Footlights’ offering is certainly a success, even if it is so with some hesitation. The tale is old as […]
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Review: Footlights’ ‘Singin’ in the Rain’
The curtain rises to reveal a red carpet, a hoard of journalists and enthusiasts gather, and the brassy voice of Dora Bailey announces the arrival of a star studded procession. Behind the glitz and the gossip is a spectacle of another kind – one which requires fantasy to be taken beyond the screen. One where […]
Footlights and ‘The Producers’
Prior to watching Footlights’ take on The Producers, my only encounter with the show was pre President Trump, amongst the confines of a downtrodden, beleaguered Guardian article. “When they come to make Trump: The Movie, what will be the plot?” bemoaned journalist, Jonathan Freedland. “For a long while I’d thought the obvious structure was that […]