ReviewsGate

“Money has been spent and most people who love musicals will go to anything but sometimes a line should be drawn, and this musical is where to draw it – as a work in progress it did not progress for patently good reasons and should have been left where it was.”

“Should you find yourself needing a turkey for Christmas look no further – this dreadful play by Torben Betts will fill the void in your life assuming it survives until January 17.”

“But at two hours, even with an interval, the play is exhausting to sit through, the redeeming features, the performances apart, being how it brings back terrible times...”

“The play's serious intent is not in question, but the trouble is the production has been staged in the round and director Daniel Goldman has failed to get his cast to act in the round so that the entire audience hears what is being said.”

“Hicks has created a Master Builder of tragic proportions and Binder's Hilde is the perfect ageing man's fantasy.”

“The play is a warm-hearted chronicle of life when Aids was rampant and coming out was sometimes impossible to do drawing apparently on Lee Wynter's own experiences and deserves.to draw the town for the performances alone but a little more clarity of speech would help greatly.”

“Much of the time in this instance one feels as if one’s being drip fed poison.”

“But she is not enough to save the show.”

“It is an amazing performance and exhausting to watch.”

“Mai Weisz is outstanding as Arendt, a woman who refused to submit, as indeed she did all her life, to things that had gone wrong, but it is very much an ensemble piece with the players complementing one another.”

“It is an evening of delights with Caroline O'Connor, Michael D Xavier, Clive Rowe, who sings Love Changes Everything too, and better than Ball did, Shona McCarty and Frances Mayli McCann performing the songs of Black accompanied dazzlingly by Joseph Church of the piano and Oliver Copeland on the double bass.”

“It is a hugely impressive play which deserves to fill the Little to the brim for its run – and a longer life somewhere too.”

“I don't think The Car Man, a huge success when it was first staged 25 years ago, is Bourne's best work – arguably nothing will ever surpass his Swan Lake – but the show has legs, and they are still dancing up a storm.”

“This is an engaging, vivid, emotionally and intellectually rich evening spent in the company of a true great.”

“As for this show dire is not the word. Atrocious is.”

“The Dominion has an almost unrivalled track record in providing a home for truly awful musicals and this turgid offering from Stephen Schwartz based on the 1998. Dreamworks animated movie of the same name is a notable addition to the list.”

“Like those ghastly pies Jenna keeps preparing on stage - in scenes reminiscent of pantomime kitchen scenes - it all looks good until you taste it.”