Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is among the weirdest. The idea of a bloke who ages backwards is ...
And finally, the wait is over. The foot-stomping and award-winning musical, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has arrived ...
By Isabella Kwai Reporting from London Benjamin Button is born onto the West End stage with a hunch, a walking stick and venerable observations more suitable to a wizened man than a newborn.
“It’s all just a matter of time,” sing the chorus, as they spin around the stage in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The line rings true on many levels in this wildly improbable yet ...
I’m not sure F Scott Fitzgerald would recognise what Jethro Compton and Darren Clark have done with his intriguing short story about a man living his life, while aging in reverse.
Because there is no make up.” If you’ve already seen the exquisitely homespun musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is previewing in the West End after seven years of development ...
This is also the theme of the cracking new Cornish rock musical, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, based on a short story by the great American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (which was turned ...
Sondheim stated that musicals aren’t written but rewritten, and watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s evolution from a tiny but profound gem in Southwark Playhouse’s smallest space to a fully ...
To age in reverse, like Benjamin Button in F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 yarn, illuminates little in and of itself – because it’s the opposite of anyone’s experience, empathy’s hardly a given.
Taylor Swift is a proud cat lady with her three felines, Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button. The Lover singer featured Benjamin on her TIME Person of the Year cover in 2023 and later ...
The first question that comes to mind about the musical version of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is, ‘How on earth are they going to do it on stage?’ The answer: With lots of heart, tons of ...
Benjamin (John Dagleish ... Philippa Hogg, in the relatively small part of Mary Button, delivers standout vocals. It’s a story of a life lived in reverse, but also one of finding home ...