WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE? Livestreaming via Leave A Light On courtesy the Theatre Cafe
WHEN: 31/3/20
We first saw Gage in Bat Out Of Hell and he was starring as Romeo in & Juliet before the lockdown and so we leapt at the chance to catch him in a more intimate gig.
WHEN?: 12/5/2020 (semi 1 now cancelled, although the BBC is planning a Eurovision moment for the night of what would have been the final, 16/5/20)
WHERE?: Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam
Coronavirus has caused the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in its 65-year history but we’re not letting it spoil our fun and, because we know the 41 songs which would have participated, we’re predicting who would’ve made the final here from Semi 1.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE? Livestreaming via Leave A Light On courtesy the Theatre Cafe
WHEN: (matinee) 30/3/20
What do you do when you can’t go to the West End? Stay home, switch on your wifi and let it find you.
Lipa makes the leap from theatres to arenas with the release of this second LP out 3/4/20 although it was actually brought forward a week after it leaked. Her May gigs at London’s O2 have been rescheduled. Tickets The album is very well named as the 11-song collection weaves 80s hooks into radio-friendly dance floor classics. The sound of a coronavirus-beating summer perhaps? Current single Physical is available to watch below.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: now
TRACKLIST: The Only Exercise I Get Is You; If You Could See Your Faults; Somebody’s Superhero; Big News in a Little World; You and Me (Were Meant To Be Together); The Outskirts Of The Dancefloor; So Happy; A Good Day Is Hard To Find; Fat Of The Land; All Of My Friends; The Prison; House Party 2; He’s Got What I Had; New York Ivy; MCR Calling; My Legal High
Over 30 years ago on BBC Radio One’s much-missed Round Table single review show star Cyndi Lauper misheard the lyric of The Beautiful South’s brilliant Song For Whoever as: ‘I love you from the bottom of my pants OK.’
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
OUT: now
Coronavirus may have caused the cancellation of the 65th Eurovision Song Contest from Rotterdam in May but 41 songs were selected for it and this was our favourite.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
WHERE? Garrick Theatre RUNTIME: 160 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
WHEN? 14/3, press night 24/3 booking to 5/9/20
The Donmar revival of this musical homage to the film noir genre of motion pictures that rose to prominence in the 1940s was one of the reasons the authors of this blog started writing monstagigz.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE? Royal Court (Jerwood Theatre Downstairs) RUNTIME: 65 minutes (no interval)
WHEN? 14/2 (matinee), runs to 21/3/20
Author E V Crowe is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme ‘super group’ and here tells the story of working mother Viv who loses a shoe on her way to work as an estate agent as her life begins to unravel.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE? Studio 5ive, the Troubadour, Wembley Park Theatre RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including three breaks for three courses)
WHEN? 8/3, booking to 29/3/20
Immersive theatre is all the rage and here award-winning Fat Rascal Theatre serve up three courses around a murder mystery dining experience.
BY: Carron Stacey
WHERE? Chalk, Brighton (touring in the US through March)
WHEN? 2/3/20
We were eagerly awaiting the trip along the south coast to watch this cosmic pop outfit from Halifax as we’d missed them at Victorious Festival two years ago.
