Punk rock in a musical? It’ll never work, will it? A crowd of mostly Green Day fans mingled with the odd ‘regular theatre goer’, filling almost every seat at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre for the European première of the smash hit musical that took Broadway by storm. A musical with a full American cast – so I went [...]
The national tour of smash-hit musical Dirty Dancing waltzed into Southampton this week and was greeted by a packed Mayflower Theatre. Hoards of excited women went silent as Baby delivered the infamous opening lines: “It was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me Baby and it didn’t occur to me to mind. It was [...]