Brian Butler gets very emotional watching a tribute to the late great Sondheim
Brian Butler gets very emotional watching a tribute to the late great Sondheim
Brian Butler finds choirs, Queers and love triangles at this year’s exciting Brighton Fringe
Brian Butler looks forward to 4 Sondheim shows and an angry Hedwig
Brian Butler luxuriates in BBC’s homage to the musical
Brian Butler applauds the re-opening of Chichester’s Festival Theatre
THE history of the stage musical Chess is as chequered as its current set design at London’s Coliseum. A successful stint in the West End from 1986 to 1989 was long overshadowed by a Broadway disastrous run of two months following vast rewrites as US producers insisted that the American must beat the Russian at the end of Act One, and not as the story originally dictated.
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe bring their UK Headline Tour Together to the Brighton Centre on November 15.
West End star Mark Inscoe to appear at Golden Handbag Awards on June 12. Mark, one of the most in demand leading men in musical theatre, recently played Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, William Desmond Taylor in Mack & Mabel with Michael Ball and Dean Martin at the Savoy Theatre in The Ratback Live from Las Vegas.
Ahead of the release of his 19th solo album If Everyone Was Listening on Monday, November 17 Michael Ball has announced he will play the Brighton Centre in April 2015.
