Snow! The Musical

Synopsis

It s bad news: Father Christmas has gone rogue and is hell bent on making it Christmas everyday, no birthdays, no Easter, no Solstice, no New Year. FC throws Nick, the delivery elf, from the stealth sleigh in his pursuit of world domination - big mistake! Nick falls to earth and meets up with star-crossed lovers Jilly and Jack, the less than lithe Lizzie, and their miserable parents for whom Christmas seems to be a disaster of enormous proportions. No-one is happy, or believes in Christmas any more, which means that Nick s quest to save the world from FC fanatical plan must be doomed. Or is it?

Our Review:

21 November 2005

With a title like Snow! The Musical, it is difficult to tell whether the compilation of Christmas hits will be full of heart-warming sentimental slush that would be a great way to kick off Christmas for young children, or whether, like Acorn Antiques! The Musical, the exclamation mark signifies a show satirising itself.

The problem with Snow! is that it tries to achieve both, combining terribly earnest Christmassey sentiment about the importance of family and panto-style double-entendre, mixed with very dark humour about an evil Santa who plans to make Christmas last all year by murdering every other festival on the calendar. The two styles definitely don’t gel, making for a lot of awkward moments when the audience is unsure whether to laugh or cry.

It’s Christmas Eve and Jilly only wants to be with her boyfriend, Jack (Daniel Reeves). Sadly her father won’t let her see him, and the lovelorn couple need ch...

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195.92.109.217) - 5 December 2005:

Great night out - superb cast and a good show....

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