Broadway doesn't always mean great!

Advantages: First Broadway Rocky since the early 80s
Disadvantages: Only really for collectors, acquired taste

...I was lucky enough to see this production with this cast on Broadway - I say lucky in that many Brits wouldn't have got that chance and because I saw it for free. However, if I had had to pay the $80 or something the tickets were selling for, I'd have been very disappointed indeed. I am also reviewing from a promotional only copy, which I believe is simply a pre-release rather than markedly changed as it contains the same cast. I also got it free! The album contains all the regular stage show songs, including Once In A While, with the occasional introductory speech before a song. This would not be an album I would recommend to those who have never heard either the Picture Show album or the Roxy Cast album as the songs are treated somewhat differently and might put you off the stage version in the UK if you hadn't already heard...

tigerbabe68 12.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Rocky Horror Show, The - New Broadway Cast

The Place 2 go If you're In Broadway

Advantages: Good hotel, Value 4 money, nice rooms.
Disadvantages: None

...I've worked at the hotel for three years nearly and I can say It's a really good hotel. It's situated in the middle of Broadway which is in the middle of the Cotswolds, it's a perfect place to stay if you're a walker and walking the Cotswolds or if you're just visiting all the lovely shops for a couple of days, The Broadway Hotel is the place to go. The building has looked the same since 1772 but has been there since 1575 and fits in perfectly with the village. In my opinion the hotel is not really made for kids as the village in itself doesn't have anything fun for children to do. There's a park and an ice cream stand, which is about the extent of the things for kids to do around here, however it's a perfect place for tourists and adults love it. When you get to the hotel you're greeted by the receptionist and helped to...

DixieChick10 08.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Broadway Hotel, Broadway

'The Constant Wife' Still a Constant Joy -Update

Advantages: Sparkling cast, still timely, sophisticated and witty piece of satire, beautiful set design and costumes.
Disadvantages: Only plays for a limited run, but it has been extended to August 21, 2005.

..."I may be unfaithful, but I am always constant." - Constance Middleton, 'The Constant Wife' [NOTE: After a mere four weeks, or some thirty days, of waiting, Ciao finally got my product proposal up. I am now posting this review in the category where it more rightly belongs. I have emailed Ciao to delete the two previous postings, and chances are, it will take at the very least another thirty days before anything happens to that request. Due to the play's spectacular success, 'The Constant Wife''s run on Broadway has been extended till the 21st of August, 2005!] 'The Constant Wife' was written in 1926, but you wouldn't know it from the play's very modern, feminist sensibility. In the latest Broadway staging of this Wildean comedy of marital mores and manners by The Roundabout Theatre Group (presented...

zerbine28 01.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Broadway and Theatre Shows and Plays

Broadway Nightmare

Advantages: Location
Disadvantages: Not for the faint hearted, needs a good clean

...I visited the Broadway Hotel in October 2007, and was very disappointed with the standards of accomidation in which the Broadway Hotel had to offer. I have never stayed in such a dirty and poorly presented Hotel, in all the years in which I have visited Blackpool. The rooms were fair, but in 5 days of staying, the toilet was not cleaned, the bins were not emptied and at no time was the rooms or beds freshened. The owner had a dog which sat on all the furniture in the lounge, and obviously had fleas, and the management would eagerly accomidate elderly bus tours, before any other customers. They would not cater for children unless you specifically asked them, as a child menu was not offered, unless you specified it, as they felt it was acceptable to give an 18 month old baby a pork chop for dinner, bone included, and they seldom cleaned...

bankievisitor 22.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Broadway Hotel, Blackpool

* The Show *

Advantages: Different , Catchy
Disadvantages: Vocals a bit distant

...Girls Aloud are a British Girl band consisting of Nadine Coyle , Cheryl Cole , Kimberly Walsh , Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts. Girls Aloud were formed on the reality television show Popstars : The Rivals in 2002. Since then , they have become a huge success. To date they have had eighteen top ten singles , including three number ones. Their style of music consists of pop and electro pop. The Show is the fifth single from Girls Aloud. The single was released on june 28th 2004 in the United Kingdom and reached number two in the British Single Charts. The show comes under the Dance Pop genre. The length of this track is three minutes and thirty seconds. The Show is taken of Girls Aloud's second album ; What Will The Neighbours Say ?. The Show is different to Girls Aloud's other songs. I think , perhaps at the time , they were...

xdonzx 02.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Show (Single) - Girls Aloud

The ultimate (?) Broadway dictionary

Advantages: An enormous amount of songs easy to find through several search indexes
Disadvantages: An enormous amount of songs easy to find through several search indexes

...Product: Ultimate Broadway Fake Book Setting: Vocal line with chords - spiral binding Composer: Just about anyone you can think of in musical theatre! Published by: Hal Leonard Music Publishing Price: RRP £23 - Cheapest at time of writing on amazon.co.u - marketplace for £17.19 Other: Promises over 700 tunes from over 240 shows from Broadway This book has within a few months become a vital instrument in my everyday musical life. As I work a lot with musical theatre, both as a singer and an arranger of choir music, this is the book I?ve been looking for for ages: it works like a dictionary for almost all the musical theatre music I can think of. The layout of the book is in the simple, clear fake-book style, with melody line and chords. The spiral binding makes the book easy to use despite that it is so thick (around 700 pages...

musicalmuppa 12.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Ultimate Broadway Fake Book - Hal Leonard Corp

Broadway in a new way

Advantages: A number of good songs, and interesting and inspiring versions of old classics
Disadvantages: There are a few songs that just pass you by without you really noticing

...CD: Broadway My Way Artist: Linda Eder Label: Atlantic Price: aprox £18.49 - cheapest is to order via amazon.com marketplace, where at time of writing it costs new $8 + postage $6.89 = £7.50 Brief description: A compilation of Broadway tunes by the singer Linda Eder, most famous for creating the role of Lucy in the musical Jekyll & Hyde. There are innumerous collections of Broadway music out there, of varying quality. This is one that stands out and makes a point. On Broadway My Way Lina Eder does present a number of famous, and some less well known, show tunes in her own way. Eder has in many of the recordings taken the music from it's original setting and given it a new musical context. If, for no other reason (and there are other reasons) than the jazz transcription of On The Street Were You Live (My Fair Lady) and the folk...

musicalmuppa 06.08.2007 (08.08.2007) · Read review
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Review of Linda Eder - My Way Broadway

On With the Show

Advantages: Some appeal for everyone
Disadvantages: Not real enough to replace reality TV

...It's funny how sometimes the smallest things stick in your memory. I can still, all these years on, remember the first time I saw "The Truman Show". It was with my mother and we were at the cinema at Lakeside in West Thurrock. I don't remember the date, or even why we'd gone to Lakeside in the first place, but I remember we decided to see a film on a whim, and this was our eventual choice. I suspect part of the reason I remember is because in all my (nearly) thirty years, I have only seen two films at the cinema with only my mother for company. The other was "E. T.", and I remember that we were alone for that one as my brother had come down with tonsillitis and my dad had to stay home with him. Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", which is essentially a larger scale version of "Big Brother". When the film was...

Soho_Black 31.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of The Truman Show (DVD)

The Eminem Show

Advantages: Fantastically produced album, some amazing songs
Disadvantages: Some people will not enjoy his style of music

...I like such a wide variety of different types of music, from trance, to cheesy pop to R n B. My all time favourite R n B / Hip Hop artist is Eminem. About Eminem Eminem was born Marshall Bruce Mathers and before he made his face famous all over the world as the biggest selling white rapper, he used to be in a band called D12. It was while he was in this band, that he, along with the other band members created alter ego's for themselves. This is how Eminem was born, it actually comes from the fact that initials are MM. He also sometimes refers to himself as Slim Shady. Eminem is now the classed as one of the highest selling rap artists of all time, having sold 70 million albums worldwide. He has also won Academy Awards as well as Grammy Awards. The Eminem Show The Eminem Show is Eminem's third album and it was released in...

daylehall 16.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Eminem Show, The (Parental Advisory) [PA] - Eminem

The World's Greatest Dog Show

Advantages: Dogs dogs dogs
Disadvantages: None

...***** Crufts ***** It was only a matter of time before I commented on the "World's Greatest Dog Show" and here it is. Indeed, it does exactly what it says on the tin - dog's and people from around the world, it's the greatest as there's no substitute for the luxurious green carpet, it has dogs and it's a show. Well, that's it then. Review finished. Actually, I think not. It's incomprehensible how much is crammed into the NEC in the four days that Crufts runs. Having been last year, mother and I decided that this would be our holiday this year - we're not the saddest people in the world - it's just not that cheap, especially with the overpriced bacon-baps and necessary dog toys, treats, blankets, collars, piccies - all for the girls that are a compulsory purchase! Unfortunately, because the NEC is in Birmingham and not...

rolletrog 19.03.2008 (10.03.2009) · Read review
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Review of Crufts Dog Show