REVIEW: Strike Up The Band, Upstairs At The Gatehouse ✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews George and Ira Gershwins’ musical Strike Up The Band at Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
George S Kaufman
REVIEW: The Doppel Gang, Tristan Bates Theatre ✭✭
The young cast is energetic, lively and likeable: it would be great to see them with a more developed script, a tighter production and a script with as much wit and sparkle in the new writing as in the evocations of some of the finest comic routines ever created.
REVIEW: Of Thee I Sing, Royal Festival Hall ✭✭
The comic performance of the night, and the source of most consistent pleasure, came from the very talented Tom Edden who made an acting masterclass out of the portrayal of the reluctant Vice President, Alexander Throttlebottom (is there a character in a Broadway musical with a better name?). Taking his cue from that name, Edden presented a neurotic, chaotic, frantic but ambitious, character: he stole every scene he was in and even some he was not in. Superb.
REVIEW: You Can’t Take It With You, Longacre Theatre ✭✭✭✭
There are forced laughs, natural laughs, gentle laughs, belly laughs and many, many smiles over the course of the production. By the final Act, however, you realise that Ellis had a clear purpose from the very start; a magic trick he pulls off with finesse.
