“Treguna Mekoides and Trecorum Satis Dee!” So begins the spell that trainee witch Eglantine Price (Dianne Pilkington) wants to use to bring about the end of the second World War. “Substitutiary ...

I have hazy hallucinatory childhood memories of Angela Lansbury on the telly whizzing around on a broomstick fighting Nazis with her hocus pocus and rounded vowels. There was a flying bed, an ...

This stage update adds new songs to the much-loved movie caper but despite deft illusions it lacks sparkle and eccentricity Well, hocus pocus and substitutiary locomotion! Half a century after the ...

Okay, here’s a real current piece of comedy. I know Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins is a friend of mine. You, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, are no Mary Poppins. Even in your so-called “Enchanted Musical ...

The late, beloved actor was on fine form as the witch Eglantine Price in this charming and often psychedelic children’s musical Long before the wizards and witches of Hogwarts were ever dreamed up, ...