REVIEW: Miss Saigon, Prince Edward Theatre ✭✭✭✭
If anything, this production of Miss Saigon re-establishes Cameron Mackintosh as the greatest producer of musicals ever. He understands his audience, and as a producer and theatre owner, he delivers!
If anything, this production of Miss Saigon re-establishes Cameron Mackintosh as the greatest producer of musicals ever. He understands his audience, and as a producer and theatre owner, he delivers!
Hands has produced a wonderful, joyful and quite triumphant revival of a piece that is often overlooked and discarded as “old-fashioned”. The life, beauty and pure pleasure that pulses from the stage deserves a long, long run.
This time, once again, Deborah Warner missed the point and all but destroyed everything of value about the theatrical experience.
There is not a person to fault in the cast or ensemble. Davies whips the material into as good a shape as it is ever likely to have. The sense of it, the glistening highlights of pain it produces, will linger long.
This is theatrical alchemy of the rarest kind. It will affect each person who sees it differently, for it is everything and nothing all at once.
Michael Blakemore is a genius. His cast is perfect. This is likely to be the smooth, delicious comedy revival of the year, if not the decade.
There is a lot to like in Sunny Afternoon and overall the experience is more than satisfactory. It is great fun. Well worth seeing and hard not to enjoy.