By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 7 May, booking to 30 August 2022 RUNTIME: 190 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
‘By George, she’s got it.’ Remember the name Amara Okereke who was flawless in the titular role at its 1st preview.
We saw lead Okereke in both The Boy Friend (Menier) and Spring Awakening (Almeida) and so know how deserved this casting is. We last saw Martine McCutcheon’s triumphant take on this Lerner and Loewe classic in 2001 and it returns to the West End at the Coliseum 7 May through 27 August 2022. Tickets 1st preview review
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Tuesday 7 December, opens 17 December, booking until 22 January 2022 UPDATE: now extended to 29 January 2022
This production is so powerful that at 1 point a woman in the audience bursts into tears and has to leave while at another a young man is audibly sobbing behind our front row seat.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE? Menier Chocolate Factory RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including two intervals)
WHEN? 22/11, press night 3/12, runs to 7/3/20
Julie Andrews made her American stage debut in this 1954 British musical in a role played here by Amara Okereke who won a Stage Debut award for Best Actress in a Musical
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