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Cleveland Street

Above the Stag Theatre, Inner London
From: Tuesday, 26th April 2011
To: Sunday, 29 May 2011

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Synopsis

Queen Victoria is on the throne. Not far away, Post Office Telegraph messenger boys are being recruited for a male brothel in a smart townhouse in Cleveland Street W1. Among their clients are Lords, politicians - and possibly even the Queen's grandson. Set to a rollicking score this is a wicked and bawdy tale of sex, lies, hypocrisy and cover-ups.

Our Review:

11 May 2011

There’s a lot of jolly bum slapping happening Above The Stag and one gets the feeling its not only occurring on stage as a jovial Friday night audience positively laps up the chipper Cleveland Street. Full of ‘wink wink nudge nudge’ cleverness Glenn Chandler’s new musical is brimming with good natured, if incredibly bawdy, charm; children avert your eyes.

Chandler’s book centres around 19 Cleveland Street, a brothel with two madams and a purely male menu. Set four years after homosexual acts were made illegal in Britain, number 19 became the centre of a Victorian scandal that almost shone a light on aristocratic homosexual hypocrisy. Almost but not quite, the upper classes it seems have had decades of getting away with it.

As the telegraph boys at the heart of the uproar (a delightful quirk being that these were Royal Mail uniformed sex workers) Michael Anderson, Adam Elliott and Ashley Martin do a sweet job o...

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