Southern Light Opera
The Musicals are Coming
Amateur musicals companies take to King’s stage:
A quartet of Edinburgh’s leading amateur musicals companies took to the King’s theatre stage on Monday night to show off some of the highlights they will be performing there in coming months.
Brigadoon – Review
✭✭✭✩✩ Solidly entertaining
Romance and kitsch are present in equal proportions in Southern Light Opera’s staging of Brigadoon at the Edinburgh King’s until Saturday.
Brigadoon looms out the mist again
Edinburgh’s oldest amateur musical theatre company take over the King’s this week with a new production of Brigadoon, the musical about a Highland village which appears only one day every century.
Review – Oklahoma!
★★★★☆ Long but Strong
It’s seventy years since Oklahoma! first took to the Broadway stage, with its gorgeous, downbeat opening of Oh What a Beautiful Morning, sung by cowboy Curly to the butter-churning Aunt Eller.
King’s AmDram hire rates frozen
Hire rates for amateur companies at Edinburgh’s King’s and Festival theatres are to be frozen “for the next year or two” the new Chief Executive of the Festival City Theatre Trust has told the Annals.
Review – Curtains
✭✭★✩✩ Royal Lyceum Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin It is unclear whether the book for Curtains, Southern Light Opera’s latest offering which is at the Royal Lyceum all week, is brave or simply foolhardy. But it certainly leaves its performers with a mountain to climb. Not content with killing off its leading lady within five […]
Æ Musical Review – Fiddler on the Roof
★★★★☆
There is plenty of tradition and lots of great singing in Southern Light Opera’s robust production of Fiddler on the Roof. It is a show which not only hits the marks bang on but which makes room for a big, brave ending.
Æ Preview – SLO Fiddling on the King’s Roof
Southern Light Opera’s Fiddler on the Roof plays at the Edinburgh King’s By Thom Dibdin Southern Light Opera return to the King’s this week with their take on one of the perennial favourites for amateur companies and musical fans alike, Fiddler on the Roof. Originally produced on Broadway in 1964, the West End in 1967 […]
Musical Review – Beauty and the Beast
★★★☆☆ King’s Theatre: Run ends Sat 6 Feb 2010 It’s a full-on meringue frenzy at the King’s this week as Southern Light Opera stage the UK amateur premiere of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. It’s not giving anything away to say that come the finale, the cast can scarcely move around the stage – […]
Preview for the week: 1 – 7 February, 2010
By Thom Dibdin February hits the ground running with a circus dance production at the Festival for three nights, the UK Amateur Premiere of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast all week at the King’s and the arrival of the third Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse. The depth is still there with a pair […]
