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5 Star Review of Scrooge and the Seven Dwarves at Theatre 503

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https://www.londontheatre1.com/news/153766/review-of-scrooge-and-the-seven-dwarves-theatre-503/ Sleeping Trees, Scrooge and the Seven Dwarves – courtesy of David Monteith-Hodge It probably won’t come as much of a surprise to know that I used to enjoy the series ‘Glee’. Part of the reason for this was the way they used to do ‘mash-ups’ where they took two completely different songs and interweaved them together to form one complete tune – for example, ‘Don’t Stand So Close to me’ and ‘Young Girl’. I mention this because, for the second year running,  Sleeping Trees Theatre Company  have done a similar thing and put two Christmas stories together to present their rendition of  Scrooge and the Seven Dwarves , which they are presenting at Theatre 503. This is not your average fringe Christmas show and the show starts with the Sleeping Trees – Joshua George Smith, John Woodburn and James Dunnell-Smith – telling the audience about the scale of the production we are abo...

5-star Half A Sixpence at the Noel Coward Theatre

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http://www.lastminutetheatretickets.com/londonwestend/review-of-half-a-sixpence-at-the-noel-coward-theatre/ Hand on heart now, how many of you reading this right now, play a Lottery game in some form or another? And how many of you players do so because of the money the various organisations distribute to good causes throughout the length and breadth of the UK? Let’s be honest, we play the lottery to win the money and change our lives. However, maybe we should be careful what we wish for, because when a life is changed by money then all of the values that were held dear are looked at from a different perspective. Not sure if I’m talking through my hat here? Well get yourself down to the Noël Coward Theatre and go and see Cameron Mackintosh’s latest smash hit transfer from the Chichester Festival –  Half A Sixpence. Its 1904 and young Arthur Kipps (Charlie Stemp) and his best friend Ann Pornick (Devon-Elise Johnson) are playing. There is sadness in their games though as to...