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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Sweet Charity...

Last night Stu and I went to a preview of Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

The show follows the misadventures of love encountered by the gullible and guileless Charity Hope Valentine, a dancer at a dance hall called the Fandango Ballroom in New York City, who always gives her heart and her dreams to the wrong man. Again and again.

And it was just a great production. Tamzin Outhwaite made a simply superb Charity - she can sing, she can dance (and I guess we knew this already) she can act. The rest of the cast were spot on too. Bob Fosse would have been proud. It was funny, entertaining and energetic. The staging was simple but affective.

Best songs of the night: I Love To Cry At Weddings, Big Spender, If My Friends Could See Me Now and There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This.

Highpoint of the night: The Rhythm Of Life

I feel a West End transfer coming on which is not surprising as the creative team behind this show has propelled Little Shop of Horrors and La Cage aux Folles in the same direction.

Go see.

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