Since this is described as a play with music, I wasn't sure where this thread should go, so I put it in Musicals to spite Bonnie Greer.
Crikey, this is not good. To say that it is about the friendship between the two ladies, they only share barely a third of the stagetime together, the rest is full of interminable monologues, and pointlessly interjected songs, only a few of the songs had anything to do with the action. Hope Augustus's singing was actually really good, and I would have preferred an evening of her singing to this, especially as the jazz quartet was superb. But why did she have to keep slipping out of character to comment about Ella Fitzgerald as Hope, it was really distracting and added nothing to it. Frank Sinatra kept randomly appearing, and led a final singalong to New York New York which was embarrassingly long as he forced the two leads of the show to do the kicks next to him yet didn't share any of the vocals. I don't know how or why this got revived, but having read a couple of reviews from the run last year in Stratford, it seems that some radical changes have been made, there is no curtain this time round....
Plenty of celebs there though, Debra Stephenson, Neil Pearson and Charles Dance next to me (who shared my opinion!)