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Sep 26 2007
JIMMY McGOVERN should be called Jimmy P. McGovern – the initial P standing for Passion. Everything this writer touches is compelling once he casts his script-writing eyes over it....
Sep 18 2007
ORIGINALLY written for Tommy Steele, the musical Half a Sixpence is one of those jolly, cheerful shows which suited Steele’s button-bright personality to a tee....
Sep 11 2007
BRENDAN O’CARROLL’S creation of feisty Mrs Brown was shocking audiences well before Catherine Tate’s more recent swearing TV gran....
Aug 17 2007
ONE of the most endearing children’s characters is set for a big stage show. Philip Key reports...
Aug 15 2007
WILD British comedian Ross Noble will be going just a little wilder when he appears at the Liverpool Empire on October 21....
Aug 14 2007
PHEW! Just watching Lady Salsa, the musical at the Liverpool Empire, can leave you quite breathless....
Aug 10 2007
YANET FUENTES TORRES was a teenager dancing in a club in Havana when an Englishman arrived to tell her he wanted her in a show. Naturally, she was sceptical....
Aug 10 2007
PHILIP Key finds out why America’s biggest mop-top copies are in Liverpool for the first time finds out why America’s biggest mop-top copies are in Liverpool for the first time...
Aug 10 2007
IT SEEMS an impossible task – take 120 young people, rehearse them for just 10 days and then expect them to stage one of Britain’s most popular musicals....
Aug 3 2007
IT SEEMS an impossible task, but theatre director Kei Bailey insists that it can be done. In just 10 days, he is rehearsing a cast of 120 for a musical that will run next week over three days at the Liverpool Empire....
