REVIEW: Committee the musical, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭✭
Committee is without a doubt one of the most exciting new musicals you’re going to see this year.
Committee is without a doubt one of the most exciting new musicals you’re going to see this year.
We have come to rely on Above The Stag to supply to us, it is high-quality homoerotic titillation with a chaser of moral uplift and this show is no exception
There are moments when we believe we are in fact watching The Marx Brothers at work, or following an off-cut from ‘Hellzapoppin’.
Yes, this whole show – hastily put together in barely a week – might well shine a bit more with a little more rehearsal and polish, but the ending is full of optimistic verve and good cheer.
I am going to give nothing away about the ‘plot’, because it’s just so deliciously ingenious and I don’t want to rob you of a single moment’s pleasure
There is a lot to enjoy here and much to admire in a basically young ensemble putting on a slightly unusual sort of show, fleshed out with some engaging humour and pathos.
Audra McDonald makes her unaccountably long-awaited London theatrical debut in the most astonishing way possible in this devastating re-telling of the story of Billie Holiday
Polec, Bennington, Sexton and Fowler carry most of the musical numbers with a flawless mix of operatic projection and sexy intimacy that will linger long and lovingly in your memory.