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Classical Leeds Music Opera Theatre West Yorkshire6th Feb 20236th Feb 2023

The Cunning Little Vixen at Leeds Grand Theatre

I think that I have discovered a new hero, Leoš Janáček, the man responsible for the work currently being performed by Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre. He has made my list of good guys on two counts; firstly he has broken the mould when it comes to the practice of anthropomorphism, and secondly, he…

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Dance Events Leeds Theatre West Yorkshire3rd Feb 2023

Phoenix Dance Theatre Double Launch Event

On Friday 27th January Phoenix Dance Theatre held a presentation to celebrate the first 40 years of the company. Being good Yorkshire folk they opted to get value for money by highlighting two brilliant announcements at once. Although the company was set up in 1981, the 40th Anniversary Tour began in November 2021 and so…

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Leeds Music Theatre West Yorkshire27th Jan 2023

Ordinary Lives: The Merlin Shepherd Quartet at Howard Assembly Room

Last year’s concert held to mark Holocaust Memorial Day was focussed on the works of three composers who perished in one of the most reviled concentration camps during the Second World War, this year the spotlight shifted to the lives of ‘ordinary’ people – the clue is in the title. Although the object was to…

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Leeds Theatre West Yorkshire11th Dec 202211th Dec 2022

Stick Man at Leeds Playhouse

This was a very fitting title for the last show I will be covering before Christmas. Next Friday, strikes permitting, I am going into hospital for a knee replacement, so one week on I will be Stick Man, probably Two Stick Man, Crutch Man, but we won’t go there, or even Dylan, the real name…

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Comedy Dance Leeds Music Theatre West Yorkshire2nd Dec 2022

Dick Whittington – Rock’n’Roll Pantomime at Leeds City Varieties.

Three Prime Ministers, two Monarchs, strikes and a pending nuclear war. What do we want to end the year – PANTO! Oh yes we really do! If ever we needed to forget everything and revert to childhood for a couple of hours then the time is now. Simon Nock and his cohorts were back to…

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Leeds Music Theatre West Yorkshire1st Dec 2022

Les Misérables at Leeds Grand Theatre

The nearest I have come to anything by the author of the book on which this musical was based is as a foodie. Pork Chops Victor Hugo was one of my specialities and always got a good reaction. The one afforded to Les Misérables was not too shabby either, with the audience in raptures at…

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Leeds Theatre West Yorkshire28th Nov 20221st Dec 2022

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical at Leeds Playhouse

Although this is a children’s classic, it is one of those books which I have never read, being first published in the UK in 1964 and, as a 15 year-old at the time, I had other things on my mind. Also, having no offspring, I didn’t get to read it as a parent. This show…

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Classical Leeds Music Theatre West Yorkshire23rd Nov 202223rd Nov 2022

Katherine Broderick & Kathryn Stott: Songs of Travel at Howard Assembly Room

It seems that the only sopranos I haven’t met this week are the ones who would fit me with a concrete overcoat and take me swimming in the Hudson River. Tonight it was the turn of Katherine Broderick to impress me with her vocal prowess, along with pianist Kathryn Scott and Paul Whittaker who translated…

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Classical Leeds Music Opera Theatre West Yorkshire20th Nov 2022

If She Has Courage with Daisy Brown and Fflur Wyn at Howard Assembly Room

What better way to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon in Leeds than in Howard Assembly Room being serenaded by two brilliant sopranos. Daisy Brown and Fflur Wyn have been appearing in Opera North’s production of Orfeo ed Euridice, which I reviewed at the end of last month, so I was looking forward to seeing them…

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Dance Leeds Music Theatre West Yorkshire10th Nov 2022

Fisherman’s Friends – The Musical at Leeds Grand Theatre

It is so hard to write a review for a show with a name like this without including a load of piscine related puns, but I will try my best. No I won’t. This is nothing more nor less than a feel-good show comprised almost entirely of sea shanties, both traditional and new, with the…

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