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The Adelphi Theatre, The Strand, London playing until 22 September
By Ryan Eiland, Editor, Best Loved Hotels.
It’s difficult for me to be entirely objective about “Sweeney Todd”. This is the very show which so thoroughly captured my imagination at age 16 in a modest provincial university theatre production that I was never really the same again. Growing up in a city without much opportunity to see live performance, the operatic power of “Sweeney” forever opened my eyes to the all-powerful combination of theatre and music, whether it be opera, dance or …

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The Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials, London
By Ryan Eiland, Editor, Best Loved Hotels.

When asked whether or not I like musicals, I’m immediately faced with a conundrum. If I answer “yes,” then my interlocutor more often than not automatically assumes that I must be enamoured of every over-produced, under-written, “celeb”-laden corporate jukebox monstrosity currently clogging the arteries of the West End. If ruefully I shake my head “no”, how then to explain those (mis)spent hours over the course of my youth when I devoured hundreds of original cast albums, not to mention …