Gloria Onitiri Archives - North West End UK

8Aug

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Saving Mozart – The Other Palace

Do we really know the story of Mozart, or his genre of music from symphonies, opera. concertos to chamber music. Through his classical period from (1756-1791) his body of work continues to enchant generations, and audiences today. Twenty-Five-year-old Charli Eglinton has been moved by Mozart as a composer and has brought to the stage Saving Mozart a musicaldepicting the life span of Mozart’s, gruelling childhood rituals to his breakthrough and recognition of being an esteemed composer, to his untimely death at the age of 35yrs. What strikes you from the beginning, the stage is small, the set is carved out as a letter M, with reflecting mirrors positioned to enhance the illusion of optimal space for all the characters to dance, act creating movement from a horse’s carriage to a boarding ...

Hadestown – Lyric Theatre

In recent years, the West End has welcomed musicals based on films, books, and even historical events. But Greek mythology was yet to receive the big-budget musical treatment — that is, until Hadestown came stomping into the Lyric Theatre, where it is currently running until December 2024. Created by singer-songwriter Anäis Mitchell as a folk-opera back in 2006, Hadestown has been on a shapeshifting journey — including a sold-out run at the National Theatre in 2018 — which culminated in the Tony Award-winning production that took Broadway by storm in 2019. As soon as its West End transfer was announced last year, directed by Rachel Chavkin, musical theatre fans were bubbling with anticipation to discover whether this new production would live up to its Herculean hype. A story fundame...

The Grinning Man – Bristol Old Vic

Based on the 1869 novel ‘The Man who Laughs’ by Victor Hugo, ‘The Grinning Man’ is an eerie and sinister tale of a grinning ‘freak’ searching to find ‘the monster in his mind’ and discover the secrets of his past. The musical enjoyed a very successful period at The Trafalgar Studios in London’s West End and is now available for streaming from its performance at The Bristol Old Vic. Set in 19th century London, ‘The Grinning Man’ intertwines terror with dark comedy in order to relay the spine-chilling tale of an abandoned child called Grinpayne (Louis Maskell), desperate to find the secrets of his past and how he gained his ‘grinning’ smile in the first place. As the story unfolds, we are introduced to Dea (Audrey Brisson), a blind girl, also longing for her own discovery. She accompanies...