By Aline Mahrud and Neil Durham
WHEN? Tuesday 10 May 2022
WHERE? PalaOlimpico, Turin, Italy
HOW DO I WATCH? BBC3 8pm (UK time)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sees the former thrown out of this 66th Contest while the latter are now favourites to win the whole thing.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Sunday 20 March 2022, booking to 17 April 2022
RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including 20-minute Interval)
There’s a lovely moment towards the end of this celebration of songwriters Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch and Michel Legrand when its star Friedman, who worked with them all, encourages the audience to sing with the cast.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Tuesday 22 March 2022
Two years waiting to see them, but if we had seen them pre-lockdown, we wouldn’t have the “thing of beauty”, as Marc Riley on 6Music calls it, that is Wild Flowers (from the forthcoming album To the Hotspot due for a July release).
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
TRACKLIST: Love The Beginning; Silver Balloons; Landline; Back To Mine; Crying On The Inside; Heavenly; Deborah; Out (Out); Want You Back; Nothing Ever Changes; Tomorrow’s Yesterdays
Basking in these 11 tracks, Little Boots’ – real name Victoria Hesketh – love for all kinds of pop music becomes clear and even she has admitted in recent interviews that working with ABBA influenced this album leaving her thinking: ‘What would Benny do?’
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Saturday 20 March (matinee), runs to 9 April 2022 RUNTIME: 70 minutes without interval
Wilson is on the phone and onstage in a rectangular box behind see-through glass in her 1st West End role since her Hedda Gabler at the National was Olivier Award-nominated in 2017.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Sunday 13 March 2022
Regressive Left, supporting act, were a hard one to follow but on the stage fell BODEGA.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Sunday 13 March 2022
Described by their own local paper as “electro art-rock”, Regressive Left surprised me as a support band that I wanted to review separately rather than tagging along with BODEGA, who they are touring with this month.
WHERE?: Kiln Theatre, Kilburn hosted by Jim Carter
WHEN?: Sunday 13 March, ahead of the 25 March dropping of season 2 on Netflix
Asked about the appeal of this show to its worldwide audience of 85 million, Rosheuvel who plays Queen Charlotte (pictured 5th from left) talks about the ensemble feel of a large cast with a theatrical background.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 12 March, opens 31 March, runs to 13 August 2022
RUNTIME: 180 minutes (including 20-minute interval)
‘We can’t go on like this,’ repeats Rafe Spall’s lawyer Atticus Finch during this hard-hitting rewriting of Harper Lee’s classic 1960 novel for the stage by Aaron (The West Wing) Sorkin.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
TRACKLIST: Emotions; What About Us; Ugly; Let’s Go Home Together; Brave; Out My Head; Thank You For The Hell; Sorry That I Miss You; Everything I Didn’t Say; Bad News; Cry On Me; Good Things Take Time; Northern Lights; Set In Stone; Body; Places
When we saw Henderson live in London in 2015 at the end of the tour promoting her Chapter One debut album boasting international hit Ghost we said that we expected her next album to be even more successful because she would have more life experience to draw on.
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