WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Trafalgar Studios 2
WHEN: 17/5 runs to 11/6
Stage fright is the ailment one might normally associate with the theatre but here we were far more worried about the probability of trench foot affecting the cast.
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 28/4
Without his leading role in the film Richard III, which he also co-wrote, Sir Ian McKellen doubts whether he would ever have been cast as Gandalf and Magneto in the Lord Of the Rings and X-Men films respectively.
WHEN?: 8pm 14/5
WHERE?: BBC1 (UK, link below) or Ericsson Globe, Stockholm
We’ve had the two semi-finals – and now we know all 26 of the finalists in the 61st Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday. But how will they fare there?
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 29/3, screens April
The BFI audience has just seen the first episode of the new BBC Hollow Crown trilogy and there are clear Game Of Thrones comparisons although star Tom Sturridge (who plays Henry VI) is having none of it.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
OUT: 6/5
TRACKLIST: Funnel Of Love; Detour; Misty Blue; Walkin’ After Midnight; Heartaches By The Number; The End Of The World; Night Life; Begging To You; You’re The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly; I Fall To Pieces; I Want To Be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart; Hard Candy Christmas.
Kinky Boots was a nominee in our monstas for musical of 2015 and Cyndi Lauper, who rose to fame in the 80s as a pop star rivalling Madonna, was one of its authors.
WHEN?: 14/5 8pm (UK time) Link to watch below
WHERE: Ericsson Globe Arena, Stockholm
We now know all of this year’s Eurovision finalists after this week’s semi finals – and here we forecast how they’ll do.
WHEN: 8pm (UK time) 12/5 (link below)
WHERE: BBC4 (link below) and Stockholm’s Ericsson Globe
We’ve revised our predictions with the 1st week of rehearsals over for the semi-finalists – and it’s two in and two out.
WHEN?: 10/5
WHERE: BBC4 8pm (link below)
Rehearsals for the 1st Eurovision semi-final started 2/5 and we’ll be updating our semi 1 predictions to reflect them as they progress, so here’s our thoughts on the 18 entries vying for 10 final slots.
An obvious winner. Their star burned more brightly and less long than most. Waterloo is so good it sounds so completely of its time (Brighton 1974) yet wouldn’t be out of place in any of the intervening 50 years. ‘So how could I ever refuse …?’
At the risk of a lady disclosing her age, we were six years old when this romped home as the UK’s 3rd winner after Sandie Shaw and Lulu in 1976. We thought the ‘ … even though you’re only 3 …’ pay-off line twee even then. The British Airways-inspired outfits would later front their own entry as Scooch with Flying The Flag in Helsinki in 2007.
