2007: The Final Count

It seems appropriate to begin the blog with an ending. 2007 has been a very good year, theatrically, and the next blog I post is going to be my best and worst of the year. But before that I want to post the list of everything I saw this year. Some of the dates might be wrong, and I guess it's possible that one or two shows might have slipped through the cracks and are forgotten. Nevertheless, here it is, as complete as I was able to make it!

(Note: * indicates that the performance was a student production in Cambridge)

1. January 3^rd: Much Ado About Nothing – Novello Theatre (matinee)

2. January 3rd: The History Boys – Wyndhams Theatre (evening)

3. January 4^th: Caroline or Change – Lyttelton Theatre (3rd time)

4. January 17^th: Coram Boy - Olivier Theatre

5. January 22^nd: Happy Days - Lyttelton Theatre

6. January 23^rd: Waves - Cottesloe Theatre

7. February 1st : The Man of Mode - Olivier Theatre

8. February 3rd : A Model Girl - Greenwich Theatre

9. February 10th: The Seagull - ADC Theatre *

10. February 14th: Cabaret - Lyric Theatre

11. February 17th: Therese Raquin - Lyttelton Theatre

12. February 24th: Cabaret - Lyric Theatre

13. March 3rd : The Reporter - Cottesloe Theatre

14. March 8th: Faust - 21 Wapping Lane (3rd time)

15. March 17th: The Seagull - Royal Court Theatre (matinee)

16. March 17th: Faust - 21 Wapping Lane

17. March 21st: The Glass Menagerie - Apollo Theatre

18. March 22nd: The Caretaker - Tricycle Theatre

19. March 24th: The Tempest (matinee)

20. March 24th: Faust - 21 Wapping Lane

21. March 26th: The Entertainer - Old Vic Theatre

22. March 30th: Faust - 21 Wapping Lane (the last time ;__;)

23. March 31st: Cabaret - Lyric Theatre

24. April 5th : The Rose Tattoo - Olivier Theatre

25. April 9th: Attempts on Her Life - Lyttelton Theatre

26. April 10th: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Roundhouse

27. April 18th: The Glass Menagerie - Apollo Theatre

28. April 19th: Little Shop of Horrors - Duke of York's Theatre

29. May 12th: Rafta, Rafta - Lyttelton Theatre

30. May 16th: Cabaret - Lyric Theatre

31. May 17th: The Drowsy Chaperone - Novello Theatre

32. May 26th: King Lear - Courtyard Theatre, Stratford (matinee)

33. May 26th: The Seagull - Courtyard Theatre, Stratford (evening)

34. May 28th: A Matter of Life and Death - Olivier Theatre

35. June 9th: Phillistines - Lyttelton Theatre

36. June 30th: The Drowsy Chaperone - Novello Theatre

37. July 7th: In Celebration - Duke of York's Theatre

38. July 18th: Boeing Boeing - Comedy Theatre

39. July 19th: The Rose Tattoo - Olivier Theatre

40. July 22nd: Angels in America Part 1 - Lyric Hammersmith

41. July 26th: The Enchantment - Cottesloe Theatre

42. July 31st: The Lord of the Rings - Theatre Royal Drury Lane

43. August 3rd: The Last Five Years - Apollo Theatre

44. August 11th: Saint Joan - Olivier Theatre

45. August 13th: Avenue Q - Noel Coward Theatre

46. August 21st: Fiddler on the Roof - Savoy Theatre

47. August 29th: All About My Mother - Old Vic Theatre

48. September 3rd: Chatroom/Citizenship - Cottesloe Theatre

49. September 6th: The Bacchae - Lyric Hammersmith

50. September 8th: The Emperor Jones - Olivier Theatre

51. September 13th: A Disappearing Number - Barbican

52. September 15th: Parade - Donmar Warehouse

53. September 17th: The Masque of the Red Death - BAC

54. September 20th: Parade - Donmar Warehouse

55. September 27th: Parade - Donmar Warehouse (shut up okay)

56. October 3rd: Cymbeline - Cambridge Arts Theatre * (directed by Trevor Nunn!)

57. October 19th: The Changeling - Cambridge Arts Theatre

58. October 26th: The Masque of the Red Death - BAC

59. November 3rd: The Fall of the House of Usher - ADC Theatre *

60. November 8th: The Collection - Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College *

61. November 15th: The After-Dinner Joke - ADC Theatre *

62. November 17th: The Visit - ADC Theatre *

63. November 22nd: Ruddigore - Brickhouse Theatre *

64. November 23rd: Parade - Donmar Warehouse

65. November 24th: A Doll's House - Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College *

66. November 28th: Attempts on Her Life - ADC Theatre *

67. November 29th: Once Upon A Time (Footlights Panto) - ADC Theatre *

68. December 1st: The Masque of the Red Death - BAC

69 December 9th: King Lear - New London Theatre

70. December 12th - Much Ado about Nothing - Olivier Theatre

71. December 17th: Hairspray - Shaftesbury Theatre

72. December 18th: Women of Troy - Lyttelton Theatre

73. December 29th: War Horse - Olivier Theatre

good morning blogimore

Hello! This is my first blog here. The intention for this blog is that it will provide somewhere for me to to write about all the theatre that I see, as I don't really have anywhere proper to do it. I tried many moons ago on my LiveJournal, when I was into that old thing, but no one there really knows anything about theatre, and obviously there is no outlet for any kind of Serious Thinking on Facebook! I see a lot of theatre, and all I have to record it is a list that I compile and a box of programmes, so it'll be good to have somewhere proper to muse and review and whine etc. So let's see where this takes me...

I'm also planning to use it to chart my first attempt at directing. Help.
The production of The Glass Menagerie that I'm directing should, if all goes well, run from March 11th to 15th at the Corpus Playroom, Cambridge, just off Kings Parade. I'm literally terrified.


Let's hope I can keep this thing updated. :-)