Tag: musical
Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews GLITTER & DOOM a queer rom com/musical
A romantic comedy that is also a musical with the hits of the Indigo Girls. Carefree Glitter (Alex Díaz) young and handsome, wants to become a professional circus performer and applies to the Ecole de Cirque in Paris. Doom (Alan Cammish) is a struggling musician, composer and singer. One night they met at Disco Berlin…
Prince Andrew The Musical : a parody of the British Royal’s fall from grace
Less you should think that the US has the monopoly of famous people fallen from grace and still behaving badly then you need to check out this wee gem PRINCE ANDREW THE MUSICAL. A hilarious, all-singing, all-dancing reimagining of the Duke of York’s badly misjudged TV interview. The British Royal thought if he…
Alan Turing The Musical : the tale of a queer wartime hero and gay icon
We are often very surprised about how and where composers chose their subject matters when creating a new musical. So far it’s been The First Lady of Argentina, a TS Elliot poetry book about cats, and Tim Rice even based one of his on a game of Chess. Now Joel Goodman & Jan Osborne…
Fabulett : A queer one-person musical featuring music, ideas and lives classified as ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis
Berlin, February 1933, the new German leadership orders the closure of all cabarets. But Felix, the emcee of the depraved Fabulett, still has a story to tell. He has felt different all his life – as a son, as a soldier, and as a lover – and now has to abandon the only place…
Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews George Takei making his West End Debut In ALLEGIANCE
Allegiance ★★★★ Charing Cross Theatre, London Last year this critic learned about the tragedy of the partition of India from DIsney’s Ms Marvel. This year it was time to learn about the scandal of the US internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in World War II from George Takei’s Allegiance. So far, it’s two points to…