The Three Musketeers
From: Saturday, 27th November 2010
To: Sunday, 2 January 2011
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Synopsis
Sultry, passionate and full of the heat of Parisian summers, the story of D’Artagnan and his quest to join the legendary Musketeers
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 5 December 2010
There’s a bit of history behind this first ever musical at the Rose: Peter Raby’s stage version has been seen in Stratford, Ontario, and elsewhere; composer George Stiles and lyricist and Paul Leigh joined in later; and now director Francis Matthews has chipped in with more book tweaks.
Matthews has also assembled a pretty good cast, but the narrative distillation of the thud and blunder novel by Alexandre Dumas remains muddy: the story of the Queen’s diamonds and Milady’s deviousness is levered into a show that otherwise seems, hélas, like an over-strenuous, curiously uninspired follow-up to both Les Misérables and Martin Guerre.
Our hero, the Gascon country boy D’Artagnan (Michael Pickering), who is seeking adventure and a commission in the hot French summer of 1625, comes “Riding to Paris” with the rest of the cast pawing the ground like fire-breathing stallions: splendid locomotion in this number, but it’s not very long before inertia sets in with th...
Latest User Review
Carla - 21 March 2011:
I saw this twice and i loved it. All the cast were amazing and so lovely to fans at the stage door. I adore Michael Pickering. I really would love to see this in the West End as it so deserves it....
Cast
Clive Rowe
Paul Thornley
Matt Rawle
Michael Pickering (D'Artagnan)
Creative
George Stiles (Music)
Paul Leigh (Lyrics)
Peter Raby (with Francis Matthews) (Book)
Rose Theatre (Producer)
Bud Martin (Producer)
Francis Matthews (Director)
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