Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! (Plus Reggae, Roxanne & Churchill's Loo)
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After becoming one of Broadway's biggest sleeper hits and an absolute social media phenomenon, Beetlejuice the Musical has landed at the Prince Edward Theatre in the West End. Nancy, Nick and producer Tim ventured to the Netherworld to see what all the fuss is about. The gang also headed Stratford East for The Harder They Come, the reggae-soaked, infectious, bass-rattlingly loud stage version of the 1972 Jamaican film classic. Spoiler: one of them didn't quite make it to the end, for reasons entirely beyond their control...
Nick Curtis interviews the wonderful Susannah Fielding — you'll know her from This Time with Alan Partridge, from stealing every scene she's in on Tom Jones, or from making Daddy Issues compulsively watchable — and she's about to open opposite Adrian Lester in the RSC's Cyrano de Bergerac at the Noël Coward. And comedian and playwright Rosie Holt answers our Five Questions ahead of Churchill's Urinal, her new play about a sentient toilet possessed by the spirit of Winston Churchill. As you do.
Plus, the gang get obsessed with Sting, Shaggy and the real Cyrano de Bergerac...
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