A Model Girl

Synopsis

A Model Girl is the sensational musical dramatising the reported and unreported events of the Profumo affair in the early sixties. It tells the tale of how a beautiful girl comes to London in search of a future. She turns the heads of the rich and famous, ending up in the bed of a Minister, in the arms of a Russian spy and at the heart of the downfall of the Government. A Model Girl is an emotional rollercoaster of love, passion, corruption, hysteria, death, sex and salvation.

Our Review:

5 February 2007

Emma Williams has the voice and stage presence of A Model Girl as well as the looks; but Richard Alexander and Marek Rymaszewski’s muddled musical based on the 1960s political scandal surrounding the Profumo affair does not do the leading lady justice, with its uneasy blend of romance and grit, eroticism and scandal.

Former topless model and dancer Christine Keeler’s affair with the Secretary of State for War Jack Profumo rocked the political establishment at the time - particularly when it was revealed she also had saucy dealings with a Russian politician (and potential spy) – leading to the resignation of Profumo, a jail term for Keeler and suicide for Stephen Ward, who introduced Keeler into the “society” of the political elite.

The complexity of events makes a strained transition into musical theatre, with too many ideas thrown into the melting pot and making for a confusing story for anyone not entirely familiar with that period in British po...

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Latest User Review

Gareth James - 21 February 2007:

Well researched and very well staged, it manages to convey the (his)story very well in little over 2 hours, though it still seems like work-in-progress. I think the reviewers have been very harsh on this, but maybe it's their fault for chosing a relatively high profile opening instead of a lower profile try-out. The low key ending is a huge mistake....

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