The Blues Brothers
From: Monday, 6th September 2010
To: Saturday, 11 September 2010
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Our Review:
8 September 2010
It beggars belief that anyone would take such a well-loved cult classic as the Blues Brothers and strip out of it any edginess only to add in something weirdly reminiscent of pantomime, but this All New Original Tribute does just that. It’s a process that leaves the audience slightly off kilter, wanting to like it and yet being continually wrong-footed.
This is particularly hard on the performers, who bring great energy and commitment to the show, but too often find themselves at the mercy of Brad Henshaw’s will to panto., a drive that reaches its apex during the performance of Flip Flop and Fly when a screen containing the words is lowered, the audience is divided into three and exhorted to sing–along-a- Jake-and-Elwood. But this is all a nod at musical theatre; it didn’t come off for me, for there was insufficient story to make this a musical. It has to be more fully to be understood as a tribute band. It requires at least a passing knowledge of the film, without which the refer...
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