Last night, Darren, Stuart, and I went to see jukebox musical Scissorhandz at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant.
Jukebox musicals can be fun. Can be.
This one, that repurposes Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands as a non-binary ‘weirdo’, is as good as any other.
There are lots of millennial whoops, a spirited cast, and some singers that certainly know how to give it some welly.
But the jumble of songs, played by an admittedly tight band, never really quite seems to find a solid sound and the relationships between characters don’t all convince.
It’s a fun and heartfelt show though if still retaining the air of a work-in-progress, as unfinished as perhaps our scissor-handed child themselves.
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