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I really enjoyed this. It’s absurdly quirky, funny, charming and is well produced. I found the first half to me more engaging than the second and this might be due to the fact that Paul Nicholas had a much bigger role in the second! – is it just me or is he a really poor actor? I found the court scene (this scene basically hangs off PN) to be superfluous and PN’s song to be arduous. But maybe if someone like Roger Allam was in the role it would be different?

Jerry Herman’s score has got some great songs in and boy is he a tunesmith. Betty Buckley as the crazy cat lady (last time I saw her she had a dead ape dumped on a shelf! ) is really quite wonderful and is worth the ticket price alone - I really wish she performed in the UK more often. it was a very good night out at the theatre and i'm still humming the tunes

armadillo, on 09 January 2013 - 04:42 PM, said:

Till most of the nation is made up of relations of bobbie, Jackie and Jack ....

Hey bartender!

can you turn off skysports and put this on? it's rather excellent -  i must track down Allegro / Elizabeth Llewellyn is excellent. bit soon to tell but maybe one of ou best singers

http://www.bbc.co.uk...on_on_Broadway/

Ah yes the state of the union toilets!

Boob, on 30 November 2012 - 07:51 PM, said:

Imelda YES but please not Kent: not very good and all a bit tacky ...

WOW. what a prodcution. I went last night and totally loved it


Trevor Nunn really is a brilliant director when he just directs and doesn't bother with silly and fussy sets


Hannah Waddington was born to play Kate

I hope this will be playing at the 02 as musicals work so well within its intimate space  ...

Yesterdays matinee started 30 minutes late with no explanation

Take a coat as the venue is freezing and I doubt the production will warm your heart

JCS, lots happens but the characters don't actually develop in anyway. With a good director and in venue that isn't the size of the Hadron Collider these issues can be addressed. Come back Gale Edwards and the excellent Lyceum production ... Still Andrew Lewd Rubber will be making fortune from this so all is not lost!

Mel C demonstrated that she can't sing. Tm Minchin and the Ben Forster are good but it's difficult to rate in a venue like this. Alex Hanson seemed to be an excellent actor who could sing and be heard. I also liked Chris Moyles for the 5 minutes he was on stage

The concept. hmmm. Cheap and nasty set. The live riot footage was forgotten about after the overture. Then we had to rely on some coursework from a pupil in year 7 who is studying CGI animation. The Passion with Michael Sheen and the NT's Timon of Athens is borrowed for the rest of the show. The dancers do lots of back flips sometimes it's seems appropriate other times for example Peter's Denial it just seems dam strange or maybe the director thought it was a boring bit that needed jazzing up. Towards the end we are given Guantanamo Bay and Nazi Prison Camp. I thought Robert Mugabe was going to be wheeled on next ...

Technically it was mess with missed mic cues, the show stopping towards the end (although we did get an apology this time) i wouln't be suprised if lighting cues were also missed. the camera work was shoddy, it was quite rare to get a complete faceshot most of the time the forehead was missing. During the curtain all we got was crotch shots - what a cock up

i turned up an hour before curtain yesterday afternoon and was given excellent seats in row e of the stalls for 45 squid. the lady at the box office said they don't do day seats as such but was quick to offer us reduced price tickets. i got the impression they do this a lot ... the stalls looked about 95% full

I can confirm the front of the stage is low

the book is tedious but i still loved the show. brilliant songs, great dancing, very funny. elegant and decadent sets but perhaps better suited for a play? for this kind of show i wanted staircases that light up and giant revolving top hats holding 10 or so hoofers!

8 out of 10