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Reviews & features: Musicals, Kelly Apter

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Five Guys Named Moe

19 Aug 20104 stars

Feel-good musical that’s a cut above

It’s not often that such a highly-polished, well produced show of this nature makes it into the Fringe line-up. More at home in the West End or Broadway, Five Guys Named Moe has been entertaining the crowds since 1990 – and it ain’t about to stop now…

The Wire's Clarke Peters in Fringe run of Five Guys Named Moe

3 Aug 2010

The Wire's Lester Freamon stars in the musical he wrote

Clarke Peters, best known for his role in US cop show The Wire, talks to Kelly Apter about taking time out to appear in the hit musical he wrote himself

Mercy Madonna of Malawi

10 Aug 20094 stars

African adoption musical

Like all the shows at The World this year, getting the Malawians to Edinburgh has been a huge undertaking. Joining a myriad of other performers, hailing from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Cuba and Brazil, the Africans inject a lively dose of their native culture…