By Imogen
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qry2
Available until: 16th May 2021
Sir Matthew Bourne is one of the greatest ballet choreographers and directors alive today. He has adapted many well-known stories, some ballet some not, like The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Carmen (as The Car Man) and most famously of all Swan Lake to give them a more modern twist and greater relevance to the 21st century.
By Imogen
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYEEZ04lbDg
Available until: 7.30pm Sunday 27 September
I think Fame is really underrated as a musical. All
most people know is that it’s about stage school and that it has a good title
song but there’s so much more to it than that. Fame isn’t the only good song
and the variation in musical styles is really impressive and not something you
see in most musicals. This doesn’t just have the pop and rock styles you’d expect
to find in a musical. There’s a bit of classical, a bit of Latin, a bit of
street and lots of really good tunes.
