Jailhouse Rock

Synopsis

Jailhouse Rock The Musical - created by the writer and director of the world-wide smash hit Buddy - is the story of a young man from the wrong side of the tracks who discovers his musical talent whilst doing time and emerges to become the world's greatest rock 'n' roll star. Hailed as "an amazing show" and "The King of West End Musicals", critics have described Jailhouse Rock as, "a rock 'n' roll spectacular" and "one of the most visually striking musicals you're ever likely to see". They raved "You'd be mad to miss it", and called it "the theatrical event of the year" and "the must see show", proclaiming it as "absolutely brilliant with the entire audience up on its feet jumping and jiving". Jailhouse Rock includes classic hits Blue Suede Shoes, Suspicious Minds, Are You Lonesome Tonight? A Fool Such as I, Burnin' Love, The Wonder of You, One Night, Tutti Frutti ...and many many more!

Our Review:

19 April 2004

Two West End trends come into lumbering, cumbersomely contrived view in Jailhouse Rock: the stage version of a well-known film and the jukebox compilation show that recycles a pre-existing selection of pop favourites into a new format. Luckily for this one, though, the last two examples of each - respectively When Harry Met Sally and Tonight's the Night - are so poor that they've created very low expectations to meet, so I wasn't exactly expecting much.

Nor indeed, with director Rob Bettinson at the helm and a script co-written by him and Alan Janes - collaborators on both the long-running Buddy and the rather shorter-lived 125th Street - was there going to be much in the way of surprises, either: they've virtually invented a formula for this kind of thing now.

As it celebrates the cult of amateur performers made big, you can virtually cue the recreation of the live tele...

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193.122.47.178) - 17 April 2005:

Rock On! For something different a little bit musical, a bit of Stomp and a whole lotta rocking!...

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