If there’s one silver lining to be found in this tangled web of theatrical missteps, it’s the brevity of the production. Like a swift accusation in the final moments of a Cluedo game, the end mercifully arrived, sparing the audience any further agony.
You wait forever for one show about queer cowboys, and then along come two. Not only that, there’s a musical about Grindr, the return of everybody’s favourite Jamie, and more of the faded star that never was Miss Hope Springs.
Brian Butler finds plenty to sing and dance and shout about at Brighton’s Theatre Royal
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Noises Off Theatre Royal Brighton This rather sweet 40th anniversary production of Michael Frayn’s play-within-a-play farce, directed by Lindsay Posner gave the appreciative audience exactly what they wanted last night, Theatre Royal Baths’ production offering up Felicity Kendal, Jonathan Coy, Matthew Kelly and Tracy-Ann Oberman and a brilliant supporting cast as they stumble their way […]
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There are a few extra songs shoehorned in, including a rather delightfully silly rendition of ‘Holding out for a Hero’ which allows Jake Quickenden to show off their rather more muscular skills & body and offer the mostly older female audience some energetic but light titillation whilst Darren Day serves some hot silver Daddy action to please other thirsty demographics in the audience
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Clary can make us laugh, and did so, with the right amount of wit, throw away and melancholic observations, the audience adored him. This part calls for some bitter spitting viciousness and here there was no mean, just sweetness curdled, no claw or nail, just bitterness and empty threat. A camp miserable bark with no bite.
What a perfect festive show for Brighton this is, it’s a furiously feel-good show, packed with superb performances and quality costumes and is high octane fun, no sequined was spared in the pursuit of musical glory.
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