The Phil Willmott company and their giant mirror return to the Union for Stephen Sondheim’s brotherhood-gone bad tale, Road Show.
The show plays to 5 March.
Category Archives: Musicals
Stay Awake, Jake
Production shots from the wonderful one-man musical, Stay Awake, Jake, which follows star Jamie Muscato as he drives through the night to the North.
The show runs at the Vault Festival until Sunday 7 February.
Grey Gardens
I can’t think of many better ways to spend New Year’s Day than shooting a show as sumptuous as Grey Gardens.
The legendary Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell star and the show runs to 6 February at the Southwark Playhouse.
Slummin’ it
So last week I had the pleasure of shooting Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell for Grey Gardens at the Southwark Playhouse. But with a twist.
The brief was to make it all look like bad 70s snaps. Well, assuming your name’s not Juergen Teller, that’s quite a big ask. The risk is that you don’t just end up with things that look deliberately like bad 70s snaps, you might actually end up with plain bad snaps.
So I got myself a headache, popped a couple of stomach ulcers, worked out what I was going to do, and prayed.
It turned out I didn’t need to. A phenomenal location (Asylum in SE15), amazing wigs, hair and makeup from Diana Estrada, some equally amazing costume design by Jonathan Lipman, and, most of all, two amazing actresses who gamely did in seconds what most people can never do — namely, pull poses and make it look so spontaneous they don’t look like poses at all — did all the work for me.
An utterly brilliant shoot.
The White Feather
New musical The White Feather looks (very touchingly) at the plight of soldiers executed for cowardice during the First World War.
The show runs at the Union until 17 October inclusive.
Some of the production shots below.
Those clowns
Production photos from the AC Group’s wonderful revival of Side by Side by Sondheim at the Jack Studio Theatre.
The show runs to 26 September so if you want to see it you need to be fairly quick.
Slash, wax, cage
So last week the LSMT were spreading grunge anarchy through the Bridewell Theatre. This time it’s the indescribably mad combination of waxworks, Victorian serial killing and spacious jail cells in Redhead.
The show runs to Saturday 2 May.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
So how do you shoot hip-hop choreography? By drinking two litres of water the moment you get home, as it happens.
Shots from the London School of Musical Theatre’s phenomenal and utterly anarchic take on Green Day’s American Idiot at the Bridewell Theatre.
Note that if you’re intending to see it there’s only tonight and tomorrow night left of the run.
Liberty leading the people
Some production shots from the radical reworking of Gilbert and Sullivan’s controversial Princess Ida at the Finborough Theatre.
The (extremely entertaining) show runs until 18 April.
Ello Princess
For a while, now, I’ve been searching for a chance to do some theatre advertising shots using a really, really classic look that doesn’t get seen much beyond magazine editorials these days because it’s a bit retro.
So when I was asked to shoot the publicity for Gilbert and Sullivan’s seldom-seen Princess Ida at the Finborough, and was told that all I had to work with was a headless and limbless torso and a big room, I jumped at the chance.
Simon Butteriss and Bridget Costello were my wonderfully in-character victims.
The show begins previews on 24 March.
