Scrooge - the Musical

Synopsis

Ebenezer Scrooge repents his past life when visited by three successive Christmas spirits. Baa Humbug!!

Our Review:

9 November 2005

After regional runs over the past two Christmases, Scrooge has bah-humbugged its way into the West End to spend the 2005 festive season at the London Palladium, where, in the title role, former pop chart-topper Tommy Steele takes to the stage as if to the manor born.

Steele’s proprietorial demeanour is understandable. He has after all - as a plaque erected in the Palladium’s foyer earlier this year confirms - performed more times at this address than anyone else. Prior to Scrooge, Steele had clocked up 1,767 Palladium performances in total, 1,088 of them for his last musical (Singin’ in the Rain, during two runs) alone.

While, with its limited season, Scrooge won’t come anywhere close to that, Steele doesn’t attack the role with any less zest. His Ebenezer, gnarled and stooped, is amusingly misanthropic before he quaffs the milk of human kindness and, given his age (Steele turns 69 during this ru...

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213.120.56.37) - 1 December 2005:

Not one for me, or indeed my wife or son of 9. Perhaps we went too early and were not ready to surrender to Christmas. Tommy Steele is OK, but no more. Will probably see better in panto this year. Two women in front of us loved every moment, so it obviously works for some. Enjoy!...

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