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THEATRE REVIEW: Moulin Rouge! The Musical at Piccadilly Theatre

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By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: ***

WHEN?: Saturday 1 January 2022, opens 20 January, booking to 28 May 2022

Garlanded with 10 Tonys in 2020 and based on Baz Luhrmann’s brilliant 2001 film, this jukebox musical focuses on the spectacle of the story of a visitor to Paris in 1899 who falls in love with a performer at the titular club at the expense of the tale’s romance.

  • Read on for reasons including how this is a feast for the eyes rather than the ears
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THEATRE REVIEW: Hamilton starring Jamael Westman

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

WHERE: Victoria Palace

WHEN: 26/12, booking to 28/7/18

The good news is that the touts appear to have been beaten – and the bad is that it’s the most uncomfortable wait to enter a theatre we can ever remember.

  • Read on for reasons including how King George’s Britpop number is the comic highlight

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