By BRUCE DENNILL In The Heights / Directed by Danielle Bentel & Stefania Du Toit / Hyde Park High School, Johannesburg Many school productions are chosen with at least one eye on the complexity of the piece being performed and the capacity of young...
By BRUCE DENNILL Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert: The Musical / Directed by Simon Phillips / The Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert remains a very different kettle of queens to most stage musicals. As one of the...
By BRUCE DENNILL West Side Story / Directed by Matthew Wild / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg There’s a good deal of nostalgia involved in watching West Side Story. It’s unavoidable. It’s a 60-year-old stage musical based on a...
By BRUCE DENNILL La La Land / Directed by Damien Chazelle / PG13 La La Land. There’s a clue in the name – this is a fairy tale, not to be taken seriously. It’s incredibly simplistic because it’s a dream placed on a screen, not experience lived out and...
By BRUCE DENNILL Annie / Directed by Nick Winston / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg An enduring favourite can also, quite easily, become a cliché, and with the better-known songs from Annie – Tomorrow and Hard Knock Life in particular...
