Cliff - the Musical

Synopsis

Cliff - the Musical is a journey through the glittering career of pop's most famous Bachelor Boy. The production features over 60 classic hit songs and is a uniquely light-hearted celebration of Sir Cliff's life and career. It all started in 1958, when Move It went to number one in the UK charts, and Cliff Richard became Britain's answer to Elvis Presley. Over the next 40 years Sir Cliff went on to sell over 100 million records and became a true superstar, a living legend! Cliff - the Musical is set in the future, looking back in flashback form, with four performers playing Cliff at various times during his life. Great music from the Shadows is also featured.

Our Review:

14 March 2003

Unlike most of the West End's tribute shows over the years - celebrating everyone from Buddy Holly to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Patsy Cline - the subject of Cliff - the Musical is still alive. The novel switch this time around is that the show is the dead duck.

With a career that's spanned 45 years and still counting, Sir Cliff Richard is a national institution. But both he and his fans deserve something better than this clumsily thrown together (constructed would be far too generous a theatrical term) concert.

"I wish I was in it myself", Sir Cliff says on the posters. He must have been quoted before he actually saw this tiresome, terrible enterprise. I'd call it an end-of-the-pier entertainment if that weren't insulting to piers and the unpretentious distractions they happily peddle. It's far worse: a cheaply cynical attempt to cash in on the (largely female) fans that manages to insult not only their idol but also...

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Latest User Review

USER: Whatsonstage.com (81.77.95.84) - 27 April 2003:

I won tickets to see this and as a cliff fan I was really excited about going. It was hilarious for all the wrong reasons! Disappointing story-line, but the singers had brilliant voices. The girls were irritating and at times the dancers and backing singers, neither knew the words or the steps! I'm just glad I won the tickets and didn't pay for them!...

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