Summary
THE old Fleet Street swimming bath turned theatre has built its deserved fine reputation on bringing Broadway and off-Broadway musicals to London which otherwise would never be staged here for a host of reasons. Sometimes they strike gold. It would be nice to be able to say they have done so again.
Phil Willmott and an energetic, talented cast led by Ria Jones have laboured hard to breathe life into the show, Julie Andrews's last Broadway musical, and the night club set and costumes by Rosemary Flegg and Jim Field are a miracle worthy of an alchemist. Devised from the film of the same name, a polished farce about sexual identity, the last decent one Andrews and her director husband, Blake Edwards, made together, it tells how Victoria, a down- on-her-luck British soprano in Paris, is rescued by a louche cabaret star Toddy, played by Christopher Holt struggling hard in an uncongenial role. Mistaken for a man, she embarks on a smash-hit career as Victor, a female impersonator. Her/his triple bluff gets called after visiting Chicago nightclub owner, King, played by Mark Halliday, who falls in love with what he thinks, to his dismay, is a man.See the full content of this document
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Theatre Victor, Victoria, the Bridewell, London 2/5
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