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The Icons in London

Leicester Square Theatre, Inner London
From: Tuesday, 9th January 2007
To: Saturday, 24 February 2007

Our Review: starstar Your Reviews: starstarstarstar

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Synopsis

A musical extravaganza featuring the music legends and movie stars that we all know and love.

Our Review: starstar

17 January 2007

The comic musical impressionist Greg London claims to have fulfilled his childhood dream by performing his own show in the West End. He may be the great-grandson of music-hall legend Marie Lloyd and was apparently born within the sound of Bow Bells, but he has lived almost all his life in America and his brand of schmaltzy, glitzy cabaret is pure Vegas.

Although he has made his career primarily in corporate entertainment and by giving private performances to celebrities such as Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger, London certainly seems very comfortable in a public arena, and the subterranean nightclub style of The Venue suits his show well. However, his stage presence is more bland than charismatic, while the accuracy of his impressions of singers varies wildly. He's not helped by a truly dreadful script from Paul Miller, which is based on how London finally made it "big" in showbiz after years of failure.

The central idea is that London hears the voices of "icons...

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198.232.57.10) - 5 February 2007: starstarstarstarstar

I saw this show last week and I thought it was very good. Great singing and acting and dancing in it, a very entertaining show. Definitely worth going to see....

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