Theatre Review: Music Of The Night – Spinning That Webber, Or A Set From The Stage

Feb 28, 2022 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Music Of The Night / Musical director: Clifford Cooper / Centurion Theatre, Pretoria   As a composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber is not to everyone’s taste, but he is an excellent choice for a...

Theatre Review: Jonathan Roxmouth – Back In Lights, Or Facing The Music … Again

Dec 31, 2021 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Jonathan Roxmouth: Back In Lights / Directed by Weslee Swain Lauder / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways   The roller-coaster of the pandemic and the on-again, off-again...

Theatre Review: All You Ask Of Me – Once More While Seething, Or What A Tangled Lloyd Webber We Weave

Dec 3, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   All You Ask Of Me / Directed by Matthew Counihan / Auto & General Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   A two-hander – singer, narrator and sarcasm conduit Carly...

Theatre Review: Jonathan Roxmouth – Lenny Andrew Steve And Me, Or Feeling Perfectly Composed

Sep 26, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Jonathan Roxmouth: Lenny Andrew Steve And Me / Accompanied by Rowan Bakker / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   Between stints in the title role of the...

Theatre Review: Evita – Blonde Attrition, Or Che What You Like About Politics, But Musicals Hit Despot

Oct 21, 2017 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Evita / Directed by Hal Prince / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   It’s a very different experience watching Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s 1978 musical Evita in...