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Too Close to The Sun

22 May 2007

MUSICAL THEATRE ‘When I was very young, just a nipper, after my first album, I was living with a pal, Steve Morris, who lived in some style in Beverley Hills and I was invited to go to St Louis and write a musical with some real theatre people,…

Sunshine On Leith

(5 stars)8 May 2007

MUSICAL The joyful, if slightly fanciful tone of the Evening News banner ‘Beckham Signs for Hibees’ combined with the more sobering ‘Posh Spice seen in Jenners’ that appear early on in Dundee Rep’s stunning Proclaimers musical by Stephen Greenhorn…

Man of La Mancha

Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, until Sat 19 May

(4 stars)23 Apr 2007

MUSICAL There’s an impressive gusto to Dale Wasserman’s version, with words by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh, of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. There is also a certain underlying complexity in its insistent questioning of reality, idealism and…

Man of La Mancha

Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 20 Apr-Sat 18

9 Apr 2007

MUSICAL Recent times might incite us to pray for leaders who believe in nothing. The zealous idealism of our current crop of proselytising free market politicians, and their monomaniac religious opponents might make us hanker sentimentally after the…

Dreamgirls

(4 stars)29 Jan 2007

Dreamgirls has made Oscar history and the ceremony hasn’t even taken place yet. It is, allegedly, the first picture to have the most Academy Award nominations in a given year and still not be nominated for Best Picture. And, for once, the Academy seems…

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

29 Jan 2007

REVIVAL Judy Garland said to her daughter: ‘Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.’ The title character of Little Voice seems to have it the wrong way round; she’s unsure of herself but first rate at imitating…

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Playhouse, Edinburgh, Sat 2 Dec-Sat 24 Feb 2007

27 Nov 2006

MUSICAL The idea of a mechanism as the star of a show might have seemed a bizarre notion a few generations ago. Only since the Futurists began their ambivalent relationship with technology early last century has art substantially changed, perhaps as…

Johanna

(15) 86min

(4 stars)13 Nov 2006

DRAMA/MUSICAL ‘She cures me and I don’t need my pacemaker any longer,’ sings an elderly patient in this expressionistic film opera, directed by the Hungarian filmmaker Kornel Mundruczo (Pleasant Days) and composed by frequent collaborator Zsófia…

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