If you’re looking for an undemanding night of fun and glamour this is the show for you. It hasn’t had a lot of press attention, a victim of snobbery from both theatre critics and dance critics who’ve largely ignored it’s arrival in town but don’t let that put you off, it’s their loss.
Vincent and Flavia are two former stars of the TV show STRICTLY COME DANCING, they’re so popular that canny producer Adam Spiegel has spotted they could fill big theatres and got them together with the award winning choreographer and director, Karen Bruce to fashion a fun show that showcases their talent. They don’t sing or act but boy, do they dance!
This is the second brilliant musical dealing with past American racism to open in the West End this autumn and London is enriched as a result. Not just because of the issues raised but because MEMPHIS and now SCOTTSBORO BOYS are examples of how skilled writers, creatives and actors are proving beyond a doubt that great musical theatre can be intelligent, original and provocative yet also be very, very entertaining.
This Broadway export of the Tony Award winning musical MEMPHIS to the West End, is very good news indeed for London theatregoers.
A simple, no frills, heart wrenching production delivered with catchy original songs. The replacement cast is not quite up to scratch compared with the original, but this is definitely one to catch before it leaves the West End in March 2015.
A show full of working class, no frills energy, but at times it needed reigning in. Well done to the women, both for what they achieved and the actors’ performances – the men need to catch up here.