Bill Deamer

Saturday Night Fever
★★★☆☆ Fever dream
It’s back to the Seventies at the Playhouse this week, as the venue becomes a disco for a dose of Saturday Night Fever ever night until Saturday.

The Osmonds: A New Musical
★★★★☆ I hear music
They were whipping out their Osmond fan club scarfs in the front row of the Festival Theatre on opening night of The Osmonds: A New Musical. It’s that sort of show.

Osmonds for Edinburgh
Osmonds musical to visit Festival Theatre
The Osmonds: A New Musical, is set to visit Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre in October 2021 as part of its world premiere tour, starting in London in August and running through to 2022.

Saturday Night Fever
★★★★☆ Electric:
It’s been 40 years since Saturday Night Fever hit the big screen, but the musical adaptation of the cult disco classic is back in an all-new production at the Playhouse this week.

Night Fever Cast
Richard Winsor takes Travolta role in Saturday Night Fever:
Richard Winsor is to play Tony Manero in the UK tour of Saturday Night Fever which arrives at the Playhouse in October, his first stage appearance since joining Casualty as the ill-stared Caleb Knight.

The Sound of Music
★★★★☆ Timeless classic:
It may be a cliché, but Edinburgh is definitely “alive with the Sound of Music” once again as the classic musical returns to the Playhouse.

The Glenn Miller Story
★★☆☆☆ Ill-judged:
Considerable musicality and dollops of goodwill cannot hide the huge basic problems at the heart of The Glenn Miller Story.

The Sound of Music
★★★★☆ No problems with this Maria:
The Playhouse was alive with the sound of a singalong as the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical returned for a too-short run, on this week until Saturday.