They say the simple pleasures in life are the sweetest and it's certainly true of this revival of a lovely, heartwarming and unpretentious musical from a time when writers and composers simply aspired to make an audience smile and to send them home humming a song from the show.
The very slight plot is based on a novel by H.G Wells in which a shop boy, Arthur Kipps, inherits a fortune, and as a result chooses to marry outside his class before fate intervenes and all works out more satisfactorily. The message that money doesn't bring contentment is always popular for audiences living through tough times.
It's been a tough few decades for Andrew Lloyd Webber since the 1980s when announcement of a new show by him would prompt a ticket buying frenzy keeping hits like EVITA, CATS and PHANTOM in the West End for years. Of the big mega hits only 
Peter Quilter’s enthusiastically received new play SAVING JASON certainly gave me a lot to think about.
THE STRONGER and STORM are two short pieces written by one of the fathers of modern drama August Strindberg. THE STRONGER was dedicated to his first wife Siri von Essen, whilst STORM was written for his third Harriet Bosse. Despite his troubled love life Strindberg possessed a gift for writing multi-layered female characters but unfortunately the production of STRINDBERG’S WOMEN directed by Jacob Murray at Jermyn Street Theatre doesn’t do any justice to his writing.