| This was a marvellous show – just wonderful! I can’t say I’ve ever had a more entertaining time in the theatre. It ticked all the boxes as they say.
The sell-out audiences were all ages from young friends and brothers and sisters of the performers, to their parents and grandparents. Quite a few grandparents went along on their own, humming their way down memory lane to the late 1950s. The musical, adapted from Shaw¹s Pygmalion (at present on at the National Theatre), was a hit on Broadway in 1956 and set a record for the longest run of any major theatre production in history. Shortly afterwards it was a hit in London. The cast was over 200 strong, full of vitality and their unselfconscious chorus singing and synchronised movements were the result of a fortnight¹s rigorous rehearsal. The large musical set pieces, with the actors also using the side aisles in the auditorium, were balanced by skilful acting by the principal characters and those with smaller parts. |
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