Tag: London

The Gig Review: August 2024

A crocheted clarinet-playing cat, lying in front of a mound of wedding cake.

GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great, big, greedy nincompoop!” – quoth The Oompa Loompas, ‘Augustus Gloop’   Sure as eggs is eggs, August follows July, and thus it was no surprise for me to awake on the day after 31st July to find that I was yet …

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‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’, London, 22/11 to 2/12

After doing a couple of fairly serious musicals, it will be nice to relax a bit over the next fortnight and play something that doesn’t make any great claims to profundity (although it does stake several claims to profanity)! For I will be playing flute, clarinet, alto saxophone and tenor saxophone for Sedos’ production of …

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Behind the Scenes at Sweeney Todd

I’m about half way through the run of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Finchley & Friern Barnet Operatic Society, so thought now would be a nice time to share some behind-the-scenes odds and ends with y’all. Firstly, here’s another little glimpse of life through my eyes:     Now, I do …

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‘Trouble in Tahiti’… in Bloomsbury!

‘Tahiti!’ Bloomsbury Opera Saturday 25th – Sunday 26th March 8:00 Great Hall, Goodenough College, WC1N 2AB www.goodenough.ac.uk/opera     This weekend sees me in Bloomsbury, where I shall be performing in the orchestra for ‘Tahiti!’! This show gives you two operas for the price of one (although they’re both quite short so that probably makes …

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