Connie Fisher
Preview for the week: 25 – 31 January, 2010
By Thom Dibdin A generally quiet January begins to hot up on Thursday, with three short-running productions opening on the same night. The RSAMD come to town with a big scale opera, the Traverse opens its season with some small scale works and the Holyrood Amateurs let us in on a pair of new one-act […]
Musical Review – The Sound of Music
★★★★★ Vibrant:
Bright and impeccably cheery, but harbouring a darkly sinister note, the big touring revival of the Sound of Music gives the film version a run for its money – and even betters it on some levels.
Connie, Constance, Maria and Me
By Thom Dibdin Up to the Edinburgh Playhouse last night to have a quick chat with Connie Fisher for the Edinburgh Evening News, after she had come off stage from her professional Edinburgh debut in The Sound of Music. Although I’d seen her on the BBC’s Maria programme, I’d forgotten until today that I had […]
Preview for the week: 18 – 24 January, 2010
It’s a quiet week on Edinburgh’s stages, at least in term of the number of shows. But just feel that depth as John Dove’s excellent new production of The Price gets into full gear at the Lyceum and a certain Connie Fisher turns up at the Playhouse. There’s more singing at the Festival theatre – […]
