THE performance of Julie Nunn as Amanda in this Noel Coward classic is quite remarkable, in that it is deliberately theatrical and melodramatic and left me, for one, wondering whether to praise her for sustaining it so unfalteringly or to complain that it is too much for too long.
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DESPITE the bleak storyline of sibling rivalry and dysfunctional relationships on an innercity estate, there were plenty of comic one-liners to lift the mood.
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IT'S the most remarkable transformation since the ugly duckling turned into a swan - chunky cricketer Darren Gough changed from ferocious fast bowler to light-on-his-feet ballroom dancer.
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I WAS delighted to hear that Bromsgrove Operatic Society has overcome a crisis that threatened to end the thespian career of one of its senior members.
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AN often spooky production on an excellent panelled set poses questions all the way through, as a house party of people marooned on an island are murdered one by one in retribution for their supposed crimes.
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THE good folk of Shirley are in for a theatrical treat next week if they care to mosey along to the Shirley Centre, where resident theatre group Centre Stage will be performing the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!
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IT'S time to don your flares as the Seventies musical Oh! What a Night returns to Birmingham's Alexandra Theatre from Thursday, with Kid Creole heading the cast.
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IT WAS at the height of the Eighties and Madness were topping the charts with the likes of My Girl, Baggy Trousers and It Must Be Love. And the teenage Steve Brookstein could be seen doing 'that' dance in the middle of the school disco.
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MANY stars of theatre and TV joined the opening night audience for the return after a 20-year break of this happy musical, which was made into a 1969 film featuring Barbra Streisand.
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