‘Wait… wait… Hammerstein…Bernstein…Sondheim… Gershwin – they were Jewish? You could knock me down with a matzo.’ Thus will not be the train of thought of any but the dopiest of theatre-goers. The title of this show (yanked from Spamalot)has the remarkable property of being both obvious and wrong. […]
A lot of amateur theatre these days is very good, and there are reasons for that. The whole process is so time and resource consuming that unless people are really dedicated, really interested in producing an outstanding product, they tend to go and find something else to do […]
It is not only die-hard fans who will be aware that the now-legendary film Rocky Horror Picture Show was a flop when first released. Fewer will know that it acquired sufficient cult status to lead to the creation of the 1981 follow up, Shock Treatment, which promptly became […]