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 […]
Footlights’ Phantom of the Opera Review
Sabrina Aziz, Lifestyle Editor, reviews The Phantom of the Opera at Exeter Northcott Theatre. It’s a Wednesday evening on 27 January, which marks the opening of Footlight’s latest venture, and perhaps their most ambitious project yet, Phantom of the Opera, held in Exeter’s Northcott Theatre. The story follows the mysterious and heavily bitter resident of […]
ExTunes at the Old Firehouse, 29/11/15
As the nights get progressively darker and colder, taking refuge in the Old Firehouse becomes more and more appealing, especially with the live music on a Sunday night. This week there was a veritable feast for the ears (and the mouth, thanks to the BBQ Pulled Pork pizza): Acoustic sets! Musical Theatre! Acapella! There was […]
Preview: Phantom of the Opera
BA: I am joined by five incredibly talented members of the cast and crew. Daniela Parkes, the Artistic Director of Footlights and the director of Phantom of the Opera, Abi Clarke the choreographer of the show and the three leads of the show, Eoin McAndrew who plays Phantom, Beth Cowley who plays Christine and Fred […]