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On today's episode of, there's a musical about basically everything;

Have you ever wished you could see two true crime fanatics actually solve a murder, rather than talking about them on podcasts? Now you can!

Are you a Great British Bake Off fan? We got you covered.

Do you... Like public bathrooms? That's... Yeah we have that too!

Donald Trump with some sort of artistic subversion that I couldn't figure out? You bet we have it.

(Not technically a musical, but) Lesbians;; can sing... So... That's cool.

Musicals, in order:

Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (by Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones) | Great British Bake Off: The Musical (by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary) | Public - The Musical (by Kyla Stroud) | Trump L'oeil: The Musical (by Henry Parkman Biggs) | The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (by Iman Qureshi)

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Review: The Great British Bake Off Musical at Noel Coward Theatre, London ★★★★★

Every few years, the West End is blessed with a new, witty British musical that captures the hearts of its audiences. And in 2023, The Great British Bake Off Musical, written by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary, does just that. Following its predecessors like Calendar Girls and Made in Dagenham, this show packs all the right ingredients of the TV series while neatly blending a storyline in a musical the length of a Bake Off final.

In true Great British Bake Off style, the musical follows a range of eclectic, charming characters, led by hosts Kim (Zoe Birkett) and Jim (Scott Paige), who applied to be on the TV show for a variety of reasons. Cambridge student Izzy's (Grace Mouat) ulterior motive is to become a baking influencer and Beyonce's best friend — her number 'Obviously' sets a great tone for the sharp lyricism to come in the show.

But of course, once we’ve met the contestants, everyone awaits the grand entrance of the judges - Phil Hollinghurst (John Owen-Jones) and Pam Lee (Haydn Gwynne) who lovingly parody Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. Their on-stage chemistry, showcased in their duet 'I'd Never Be Me Without You', is one of the highlights of the show.

Despite its ensemble, Bake Off largely follows the unfolding love story between Gemma (Charlotte Wakefield), a carer from Blackpool who joins the show as a back-up contestant, and widower Ben (Damian Humbley), whose daughter Lily applies on his behalf. This moment is scored by the particularly beautiful 'My Dad', spotlights the writers ability to unite humour and heartbreak.

It's clear Brunger and Cleary have a great appreciation for musical theatre with each song seemingly pastiching a variety of musicals from classic to vaudeville to modern — notably composers like Kander and Ebb and Lin-Manuel Miranda. And no musical is ever complete without a good lament, and in Bake Off this came in the form of showstopping Bab's Lament, taken on by the fiery Claire Moore to rapturous applause.

While it felt the audience took a little time to warm up to Bake Off - perhaps, through its broader appeal, brought in those who don't usually opt for a musical - by the time each character and their eccentricities was established, the Noel Coward Theatre had a charming and wholesome atmosphere.

Bake Off has the power to stay fresh with topical tidbits (noting the current tomato shortage) and social media trends while managing to not feel like dad dancing. And if there was any doubt the quintessential Britishisms tightly knit to the fabric of this show would not translate, the Americans I had the pleasure of sitting next to were laughing louder than anyone!

The Great British Bake Off Musical is cooking up a storm in the West End until 13 May, with tickets direct from the box office here. It is now available on TodayTix's Rush.

*Tickets for this show were kindly gifted, photography by Manuel Harlan.

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September 9-16 Playwright, Screenwriter, and Lyricist Jake Brunger

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News: The Great British Bake Off Musical Prepares to Transfer to the Noël Coward Theatre

News: The Great British Bake Off Musical Prepares to Transfer to the Noël Coward Theatre

Mark Goucher Productions have announced that The Great British Bake Off Musical will transfer to the West End opening at the Noël Coward Theatre for a limited twelve-week run from 25 February to 13 May 2023. Created in association with Creative Director and Executive Producer Richard McKerrow and the producers of the TV phenomenon, Love Productions, this musical comedy has perfectly reimagined…

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"Love Sarah"

“Love Sarah”

If you’re looking for crowd pleasing entertainment, it’s hard to go wrong with “Love Sarah,” a delightful romantic comedy from director Eliza Schroeder. You could argue that this movie is agreeable to a fault, but sometimes a sweet story filled with charming characters is the perfect prescription for curing a lousy day. After her mother Sarah (Candice Brown) dies unexpectedly, Clarissa’s…

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Great British Bake Off musical to hit the stage this summer

... what?

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Love Sarah (2020) Review

Love Sarah (2020) Review

Isabella was due to open a new bakery with her friend Sarah, but after her death is struggling with the building they had bought. When Clarissa, Sarah’s daughter splits up with her boyfriend and sleeps in the building one night this will start up the bakery again!

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samanthabarks: BEST royal wedding party ever courtesy of @stevenearoberts & Jake Brunger 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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samanthabarks: BEST royal wedding party ever courtesy of @stevenearoberts & Jake Brunger 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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BANDA SONORA

BANDA SONORA DEL MUSICAL THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE

 Sony Music Masterworks publica un disco con las canciones del musical The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, un montaje que después de su estreno en Leicester en 2015 podrá verse el próximo verano nuevamente en el Teatro Ambassadors de Londres. Hoy 28 de junio.

El musical se basa en el bestseller de Sue Townsend, originalmente publicado en 1982, y cuenta con un libreto de Jake Brunger y música y letras compuestas por Pippa Cleary. Luke Sheppard dirige el montaje. El libro vendió más de 20 millones de copias en un total de 30 países.

Se trata de una historia atemporal de angustia adolescente, luchas familiares y amor no correspondido, contada a través de los ojos del poeta torturado Adrian Mole, uno de los personajes de comedia más perdurables de todos los tiempos que captura a la perfección el espíritu de los años 80 en Gran Bretaña.

Ambientado en la década de 1980 en Leicester, el musical nos sitúa en los dramas y desventuras diarias de la vida adolescente de Adrian. Con padres disfuncionales, una deuda creciente con el acosador de la escuela Barry Kent y un ingrato grano en la barbilla, la vida es difícil para un intelectual incomprendido que solo tiene 13 años. Cuando la nueva alumna Pandora se une a la clase y captura su corazón, su mejor amigo Nigel le roba el suyo. ¿Podrá Adrian ganar su amor y escapar de su caótica vida familiar?

CONTENIDO

1.     Another Year

2.     Look at that Girl              

3.     Intellectual Boy

4.     Begging You for More

5.     Barry's Threat

6.     Perfect Mother

7.     Misunderstood

8.     My Lost Love                    

9.     Take a Stand

10.   Royal Wedding

11.   How Could You

12.   Now That I'm With You

13.   New Best Friend

14.   Bert's Advice

15.   If You'd Lived

16.   I Miss Our Life

17.   The Nativity

18.   Finale

ADRIAN MOLE EL MUSICAL

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole The Musical at the Ambassadors Theatre

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole The Musical at the Ambassadors Theatre

What a life-affirming, toe-tapping, heart-rending, spine-tingling celebration of a musical this is! From the opening scene (New Year’s Eve 1981, of course) to the closing one (New Year’s Eve 1983) this theatrical adaptation of Sue Townsend’s much loved novel, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole the Musical doesn’t miss a beat. The music and book, written by the musical theatre duo Jake Brunger and…

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Are Adrian Mole's diaries still relevant?

Are Adrian Mole’s diaries still relevant?

Adrian Mole the musical has just opened to audiences but do the storylines still pack a punch with today’s adolescents? Writers Pippa Cleary and Jake Brunger created the show by adapting the books of the late author Sue Townsend. BBC News took a 13 3/4 year-old to interview Pippa and Jake. Video Journalist and editor Sophie van Brugen.

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Review: The Great British Bake Off - The Musical, Everyman Theatre Cheltenham

Review: The Great British @bakeoffmusical, @Everymanchelt

A review of the sweetly enjoyable The Great British Bake Off – The Musical at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham that avoids any mention of soggy bottoms “Where would a gin be without its tonic Why did the Krankies become iconic” Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary have form with their commitment to theatre outside of London – their take on The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ premiered at…

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JOHN HOPKINS IN THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 ¾

  JOHN HOPKINS is currently playing the roles of Mr Lucas and Mr Scruton in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾. Based on Sue Townsend’s much loved novel of the same name, the hilarious wonderings of teenager Adrian Mole are brought to the stage in a brand new musical adaptation. Written by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary and directed by Luke Sheppard, the production performs at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London until 9th September. Don’t miss it!

Book your tickets here.

Rehearsal photo credit: Alastair Muir

JOHN HOPKINS IN THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 ¾ was originally published on Scott Marshall

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Adrian Mole. Kelly Price (Pauline), Asha Banks (Pandora), Amir Wilson (Nigel), Benjamin Lewis (Adrian) & Dean Chisnall (George). Credit – Alastair Muir

The world in the early 1980s was a really different place. There was a female Prime Minister, The Tories were tearing themselves apart over Europe. There were massive inequalities in wealth.The Labour party looked unelectable and there was a nutter in the White House threatening other countries with terrible weapons. See, nothing like today at all. There was one big difference though. If you wanted to record your everyday activities and thoughts, then there were no online video logs or laptops with built in webcams. Oh no, you had to use a book and a pen to chronicle your life for future generations. And, unlike today where you pray people will view your blog, in the 1980s your diary was kept a secret from all but your closest friends – in fact sometimes from them as well. Welcome to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ – the Musical which is packing them in at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

January 1981 and young Adrian (Benjamin Lewis/Ilan Galkoff/Samuel Menhinick) is starting his first diary. Adrian is an unusual boy ¾ of a year into being a teenager. The reason for this is that Adrian, unlike his mother Pauline (Kelly Price) and father George (Dean Chisnall) is an intellectual. This makes him slightly different to everyone else and leaves him feeling odd and alone. Until his life changes with the arrival of a new pupil in his class. Born into a ‘Champagne Socialist’ family Pandora Braithwaite (Asha Banks/Georgia Pemberton/Lara Wollington) is a breath of fresh air for Adrian. With her beauty, her brains and her socialist principles, Adrian is convinced that Pandora is the love of his life – a thought that seems to be shared with his best friend Nigel (Amir Wilson/Edward Hooper/Max Robson). Unfortunately, real life gets in the way of Adrian’s wooing. Over the course of the year, his parents split up. His mum goes off with next door neighbour Mr Lucas (John Hopkins) while his father starts a relationship with local good-time girl Doreen Slater (Lara Denning). Then there is his charity work looking after the curmudgeonly Bert Baxter (Barry James), not to mention dodging the school bully Barry (Jason Rennie/Callum Mcdonald/Connor Davies) and the interference from his Gran (Gay Soper). All told, it’s a lot of things to put on the shoulders of an adolescent boy with spots and a ruler that has to be marked out incorrectly.

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  Book, lyrics and composer team Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary worked with Sue Townsend to bring the original book – a true masterpiece about the problems of teenage angst – to life and that collaboration has really paid off. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ feels really authentic in its writing and execution. Listening to the dialogue, I was immediately taken back to when I first read the books and my initial reaction to them. Actually, I really identified with Adrian as I was always certain another baby and myself were swapped at birth and there is now some ‘normal’ bloke living in a house where the works of Proust and Classic FM are the norm – sorry mum and dad. I suppose my only problem with the writing is that the original book is so full of great moments that inevitably, things have to be left out to make a 2½ hour show. This means that both Bert Baxter and Grandmother Mole are reduced as characters – though they both get some wonderful one-liners in – and aren’t used as much as I would have liked. There are some great songs and a slickness to the writing that really engages with the audience, making them feel like part of Adrian’s world.

Looking at the production and wow, Designer Tom Rogers has really hit the mark not only with the very interesting fashions of the times – I must have blanked from my minds that there was a period when boiler suits were ‘de rigueur – but also with the perfect representation of a teenage bedroom in the 1980s. And it doesn’t end there, with a few secret compartments, the set becomes a host of different locations for Director Luke Sheppard to use with his cast.

And what a cast. In the synopsis above, I’ve underlined the actors that performed the children’s roles when I saw the show and if the others are half as good, then you are in for a fantastic night. Acting, singing, dancing, even bringing life to a puppet dog, there seems to be no end to the talented youngsters’ skills. The adults are equally as good and, indeed this is a first rate cast with no weak links that I could see. The only minor issue was sometimes with pacing, where the cast didn’t allow enough time to ‘ride the laughter’ before moving on. It’s a minor point and I’m sure it will get better as the run continues.

I’m going to end with something I overheard as I left after the well-deserved standing ovation was over. One chap turned to his companion and, beaming with happiness said; “this show is the new Billy Elliot”. Given how often productions transfer from the Menier to the north of the river, it wouldn’t surprise me if that prophecy turned out to be true.

Review by Terry Eastham

Set in 1980s Leicester, we follow the daily dramas and misadventures of Adrian’s adolescent life. With dysfunctional parents, ungrateful elders, a growing debt to school bully Barry Kent and an unruly pimple on his chin, life is hard for a misunderstood intellectual who is only 13 3/4… To top it off, when new girl Pandora joins the class and captures his heart, his best friend Nigel steals hers. Can Adrian win her love and escape from his chaotic family life?

Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 14th July – 9th September RUNNING TIME – 2hrs 20mins (including interval)

CAST Pauline – Kelly Price George – Dean Chisnall Mr Lucas/Mr Scruton – John Hopkins Doreen/Miss Elf – Lara Denning Grandma – Gay Soper Bert – Barry James Adrian – Benjamin Lewis / Ilan Galkoff / Samuel Menhinick Barry – Jason Rennie / Callum Mcdonald / Connor Davies Nigel – Amir Wilson / Edward Hooper / Max Robson Pandora – Asha Banks / Georgia Pemberton / Lara Wollington Understudies – Mathew Craig / Claire Greenway

CREATIVES Book & Lyrics – Jake Brunger Music & Lyrics – Pippa Cleary Dirctor – Luke Sheppard Choreographer – Rebecca Howell Set & Costume Design – Tom Rogers Lighting Design – Howard Hudson Sound Design – Greg Clarke Musical Direction – Alex Parker Orchestrations – Paul Herbert

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