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The musical to end all musicals
MUSICAL: MUSICAL OF MUSICALS
King’s Head
THIS musical extravaganza is daring, simple and perfectly realised by talented writers Eric Brockwell and Joanne Bogart, who take the musical Rent and use its up-dated ‘Boheme’ storyline as the basis for five new musicals.
The matrix starts with Corn and lampoons everything along the way from Carousel to Flower Drum Song, The King and I and The Sound of Music.
This show is funny and clever, every nuance is perfectly delivered by the cast and their inventive musical director Richard John and choreographer Steven Harris.
June can’t pay her rent. Her landlord is demanding and her lover is romantic. One short story becomes five mini-musicals, each in the distinctive style of a different master of the form.
Sharing a variety of roles with the rest of the extraordinarily versatile, four-strong cast Ian McLarnon recalls Gordon MacRae’s distinctive vocal timbre in Corn as faithfully as his Villy reproduces the typically sweet Broadway vocal technique required in Speakeasy, the Kander and Ebb Cabaret parody.
Its pops at Tim Rice’s awkward Evita lyrics are right on the button.
Russet-haired Susannah Fellows performs with assured panache and an painted smile.
The neurotic Jidder in Corn (Paul Baker) completes a formidable line-up that will bring some subversive new year laughter to all lovers of the great Broadway musical.
Until Jan 11
020 7226 1916 |
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