Blair on Broadway
From: Wednesday, 16th January 2008
To: Thursday, 31 January 2008
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Synopsis
A satirical, musical retrospective of the Blair decade: everything from Blair's Babes to Iraq, a rapping Jeremy Paxman to a juggling Cherie Blair.
Our Review:
18 January 2008
After a sold-out run at the tiny Hen and Chickens pub theatre in Islington last autumn, the satirical musical Blair on Broadway now takes a bigger stage in the West End. With book and lyrics by Ian Hollingshead and music by Timothy Muller, this is more revue-style sketch show than fully fledged musical, and more spoof than satire. But though the show fits nicely into the intimate studio space of the Arts Theatre, its mildly amusing portrait of the figurehead of New Labour makes little dramatic, musical or political impact. A transfer to Broadway seems as unlikely as Tony Blair converting to Islam.
There have already been a number of attempts to satirise Blair musically, including Justin Butcher’s over-the-top if exuberant The Madness of George Dubya by (also at the Arts) and Alastair Beaton’s disappointingly lacklustre Follow My Leader. The conceit of this show is that Blair tells his own story as Britai...
Cast
Joshua Martin (Tony Blair)
Chris Cambridge (Gordon Brown)
William Hazell (Alastair Campbell)
Tim McArthur (John Prescott)
Peter McMillan (Peter Mandelson/Jeremy Paxman)
Tara Siddall (Cherie Blair)
Dan Wheeler (William Hague/George Bush)
Sophia Behn (Blair Babe) P:Clare Reill (Blair Babe)
Katie Ventress (Blair Babe)
Creative
Iain Hollingshead (Author)
Timothy Muller (Author)
Third Way Productions (Producer)
Iain Hollingshead (Producer)
Jessica Cawes (Director)
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