LIVE FROM LEICESTER SQUARE: MISS POLLY RAE AND HER HURLY BURLY GIRLYS
Leicester Square Theatre
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Following the demise of the Soho Revue Bar, cabaret is looking for a new home. Miss Polly Rae and her Hurly Burly Girlys have decided to take their brand of vintage burlesque onto the stage of the much larger, and more mainstream, venue of the Leicester Square Theatre - Live From Leicester Square is their weekly, late-night, Friday residency...
http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8831237226713

OBAMA ON MY MIND
Hen & Chickens
Camden New Journal

Less talk, more action – a criticism levelled at many a politician, and something this musical comedy could certainly learn from.
It all started so well. A lively opening number lampooning Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment, with a perky Sarah Palin in a pig-suit, whipped me up into a positively American state of euphoria.
Half an hour later, and only three songs in, silk purses and sows' ears were springing to mind. Let’s hope Obama’s honeymoon period lasts a little longer...
http://www.thecnj.co.uk/review/2009/031209/theatre031209_02.html

AUSTENTATIOUS
Landor Theatre
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(Image courtesy of Michael McAdam)

Austen purists should probably avoid - if they haven’t left by the interval, then Elizabeth Bennet’s climactic, New York-based tap-off with her Pirate Queen sister Lydia, will surely send them running back to their texts to double-check the footnotes...
http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/offwestend/?p=1089#more-1089