Archive for the 'Theatre' Category

London!

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

When I first heard a song from the stage musical Lord of the Rings I was hooked! Lothlórien is such a wonderful song and different from what I ever heard. I visited the LOTR Musical website and found video-clips from the show with beautiful costumes and sets. Not long after that I saw a TV-documentary […]

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Les Mis

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

As a surprise for Manon’s Birthday, I bought tickets for the new Dutch production of Les Misérables. To me it’s the most beautiful musical ever, closely followed by (or perhaps joined first place with) Wicked. I saw Les Mis about 40 times over the period 1986-1992. In Holland as well as in London. I know […]

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Wicked

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

This is also a show I wanted to see for a looong time. I saw Kerry Ellis (Elphaba) in Les Mis and thought she was a wonderful Fantine. Now I got the chance seeing her as Elphaba and she didn’t disappoint me – on the contrary. We’ve been listening to the CD for the last […]

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

The day we arrived in London – August 3rd, 2007 – was also the day we went to see Joseph. We both were excited as we would finally see Lee live on stage! After cheering for him at the ‘Any Dream Will Do’ series (a BBC contest looking for the lead in Joseph) and the […]

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Lee Mead (yes, again!)

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

For those interested, Lee’s offical website is up and running. I just love the pics from Lee as a kid *grin* Official Lee Mead website. The fanlisting [edit 2012: no longer online] has 170 members now. Lots of people joined when the link to the fanlisting was up at Lee’s Wikipedia entry. But someone deleted that […]

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