As the people of Merseyside welcome in 2014, it is also time to welcome the exciting new schedule from The Epstein Theatre, as they reveal their Spring Season line up. After celebrating the theatre’s landmark 100th anniversary in 2013, this year continues to deliver an exciting and diverse range of shows, keeping up the high standards in entertainment that the venue has come to be known for.
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Judy & Liza, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Lucy Williamson, Emma Dears.
Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, perhaps two of the biggest names in American show business ever and surely impossible to ever replicate on stage what they have each achieved and the adoration in which they are still held to this day. Whilst Judy Garland’s life was heartbreakingly cut short due to near obscene levels of pressure, Ms Minnelli has been a born survivor despite the huge ruby slippers she had to fill and yet in Judy & Liza it was if the two women had come back together just one more time.
St. Helens Theatre Royal Follows The Yellow Brick Road For Easter Panto.
A whirlwind of glitz, glamour and family fun is forecast to hit the St. Helens Theatre Royal on March 30thand last until 7th April bringing audiences an ultimate Easter eggstravaganza in pure panto style. Due to popular demand Regal Entertainments are bringing back their wizardly wonderful production of the timeless classic which will take theatregoers young and old over the rainbow and down the yellow brick road…..that’s right, it’s the welcomed return of everyone’s favourite tale, The Wizard of Oz.
Scotty Road-The Musical, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Scotland Road is one of the most iconic and celebrated roads in Liverpool, it has been home to a community who have looked at its heyday with a certain fondness and others have looked at it with begrudging respect that it held so many people together despite any backlash from other areas that ran it down. People have lived there; worked there and grown up there, it is only right that eventually a musical would be based on Scotty Road.