REVIEW: Lock and Key, The Vaults ✭✭✭
As graduates of Stratford East Barlow and Smith have much to celebrate and we have much to look forward to from them. They are going places.
Tiffany Graves
REVIEW: Mack and Mabel in Concert, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭✭
an LMTO show is – ultimately – all about the orchestra. Here we got the full 32-pieces of the publishers´ dreams, and this was – we were reliably informed – the biggest band EVER assembled for any performance of this exquisite score. They played magnificently.
REVIEW: The Producers, Churchill Theatre Then Touring ✭✭✭✭
Wry and rapscallion, Cory English’s Max is perennially down and out and glibly shooting the breeze simultaneously. Jason Manford carefully crafts Leo as a buffoon with a heart of marshmallow, is very funny (physically and verbally) and nails his passion for show-business precisely. Like a deranged Bratwurst Behemoth, Jupitus’ Franz is a triumph of dysfunction, hysterical devotion to a lost cause and amiable murderous delusion. Tiffany Graves is in sensational form as the 11am temptress, Ulla.
