Brian Butler finds there’s a funny ha-ha substitute coming for Eurovision fans
Brian Butler finds there’s a funny ha-ha substitute coming for Eurovision fans
Claire Sweeney, star of Brookside, Celebrity Big Brother, Chicago, Guys and Dolls and many more shows is as unpretentious as they come.
This show is exactly what an escapist stage musical does best – it’s highly entertaining, doesn’t tax your brain or your ethics and after boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again – we all walk out into the sultry rainy night happy.
Hairspray is a joyous candy-coloured confection which has a heart as big as its outsize heroine. It manages to combine a thrilling slickness of staging with something quite magically uplifting and the result might, quite possibly, be the most purely enjoyable show of the last few years.
