Cruise at the Duchess Theatre: ‘Holden is a remarkable tour de force…’
May 26, 2021 Last updated:
May 26, 2021
It’s the sort of production that will probably consider itself to have done well if it has encouraged people in their audiences to open up – not necessarily to the Switchboard LGBT+ helpline, which features heavily in
Cruise, but to any appropriate channel that can help them offload their experiences and tell their story. I made the error of judging a show by the front cover of its programme: determining it to be a one-man show, it is at the very least a two-man show, with composer John Elliott on stage alongside Jack Holden, and of course there is an entire creative team and a production team that have come together to make it all happen.
Cruise
Cruise premiered at the West End s Duchess Theatre last week to critical acclaim.
Based on a true story Holden was told whilst volunteering for Switchboard, the LGBTQ listening service, the play pays tribute to a generation decimated by HIV and AIDs.
Produced by Aria Entertainment and Lambert Jackson, marking their West End debuts, Cruise is billed as an urgent, moving and inspirational new play with live music and spoken word.
It centres on Michael Spencer, who prepares to go out with a bang on what he expects to be his last night on earth after being diagnosed with AIDs in the 1980s. But when he unexpectedly survives, what kind of life can he now live?
A Killer Party ‘is a lot of fun’ | Review
May 7, 2021 Last updated:
May 7, 2021
I wouldn’t exactly say Ben Forster appearing as himself in this musical comedy is a career highlight (he is, after all, someone who has played the title role in the West End production of
The Phantom of the Opera) but it’s evident that he doesn’t take himself too seriously in
A Killer Party. The narrative arc is as predictable as night follows day. In short, this is a murder mystery story in which various leads are followed up, some more plausible than others, before eventually there’s a breakthrough of some kind in the investigation which results in the case being solved.
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The Last Five Years at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End
April 12, 2021 Last updated:
April 12, 2021
After a critically acclaimed run at Southwark Playhouse last year and a highly successful worldwide stream with stream.theatre, Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk Award-winning musical,
The Last Five Years, will play a limited season at the Vaudeville Theatre, previewing from 17 September, with an opening night on 23 September and running until 13 October 2021. Directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, Molly Lynch and Oli Higginson will reprise their roles as Cathy and Jamie. This will be the first time the musical will have had a significant run of length in the West End.