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Welcome to The Crazy Chris Website
Loving London life...
Hello and welcome. This is the third version of my personal site - the first two just developed technical problems which I couldn't resolve so I had to start over. Basically it's mostly about theatre as that's where I often find myself outside of work. I'm still not technologically minded so this one might well fail too at some point.
One of these days I might get around to putting up old content from the previous websites. Thanks for stopping by!
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I Swear (2025 film)
“Fuck the Queen!” is what this film asserts John Davidson (Robert Aramayo) called out at the Investiture in 2019 at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where he was presented with an MBE, in recognition of his work to raise awareness and understanding of Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder. Named for Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857-1904), who published a study in 1885 of nine patients, all of whom had involuntary movements, or ‘tics’, a century later, Davids
3 hours ago3 min read


Plainclothes - Curzon
This film covers some very well-trodden ground – in the United States, a generation ago, before the ubiquity of mobile telephony and...
Oct 62 min read


Urchin - 2025 film
The opening scene is instantly recognisable to almost anyone who has had the pleasure of walking for more than a few minutes in central...
Oct 52 min read


Choir - Minerva Theatre Chichester
A fascinating show that takes the audience through an intense rehearsal process undertaken by a community choir prior to its first public...
Aug 103 min read


The Letters of Frank Loesser
You know the kind of book that is difficult to put down, and if you can spare the time that very night, you plough on through and finish...
Aug 23 min read


A show that worked, and a show that didn't
Top Hat at Chichester Festival Theatre. Photo credit: Johan Persson In this economy, I’m more inclined than I’ve ever been to take up a...
Jul 313 min read


Carly Paoli and Friends - Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Talk about going into a show ‘blind’ – I had never heard of Carly Paoli. There was a part of me that thought I should go for David Phelps...
Jul 143 min read


Jeremy Jordan - Royal Albert Hall
I couldn’t keep up with all of the various songs Jeremy Jordan and his longtime collaborator and musical director Benjamin Rauhala had...
Jul 133 min read


Indigo - Curve Theatre Leicester
(L-R) Lisa Maxwell (Elaine), Catie Davis (Director), Nuno Queimado (Rick) and Katie Cailean (Emma). Photography by Manuel Harlan. There...
Jun 264 min read


Aaron Tveit - London Palladium
Aaron Tveit did well to sell out the London Palladium – twice – to the best of my knowledge I hadn’t seen him perform in anything in...
Apr 263 min read


Wild Rose - Royal Lyceum Edinburgh
There were all sorts of reasons not to see this production of Wild Rose . I initially got it confused with White Rose , a completely...
Apr 224 min read


Kinky Boots - Theatre Royal Brighton
There are Kinky Boots purists out there who hate this new touring show, because it is a non-replica production. I’m not sure why they...
Mar 303 min read


Second Best - Riverside Studios
"PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ARE NOT ALLOWED!" So here's a photo of the outside of the venue instead. No programmes were available – or if there...
Feb 164 min read


Starlight Express - Wembley Park Theatre
It’s that Andrew Lloyd Webber musical I didn’t want to go to because it’s about trains, and I have had quite enough of them in recent...
Feb 24 min read


The Queensland Killers
The Outbank of Queensland is home to the deadliest snakes in the world. The Inland Taipan, which is found nowhere else on the planet, has...
Jan 311 min read


Bat Out of Hell (2025) - Edinburgh Playhouse
“It was long ago, it was far away, it was so much better than it is today…” Glenn Adamson, Katie Tonkinson, Rob Fowler and Sharon Sexton....
Jan 74 min read


Some quirky stories
A group of opera singers was stuck in a lift for more than an hour – after ignoring the maximum weight warning. The 13 performers had to...
Dec 27, 20241 min read


Wicked Part One - 2024 film
It wasn’t the musical lovers who have seen the stage show more times than they’ve had birthdays that convinced me to finally find some...
Dec 26, 20243 min read


Small Things Like These (2024 film)
It’s a bloody slow burner, this movie, and if it were something I were watching at home, I’d almost certainly not have bothered sticking...
Nov 4, 20243 min read


The Apprentice (2024 movie)
For all the criticisms of the likes of Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves never having run a business before, and therefore being quite...
Nov 4, 20242 min read
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