Sweet charity review
Sweet Charity is showing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Sweet Charity follows the misadventures of love encountered by the gullible and guileless Charity Hope Valentine, a woman who always gives her heart and her dreams to the wrong man. Cy Coleman’s score features favourite hits such as Hey, Big Spender; If My Friends Could See Me Now and The Rhythm of Life.
With book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Dorothy Fields,
Sweet Charity is directed by Matthew White, choreography is by Stephen Mear, set design by Tim Shortall, costume design by Matthew Wright, musical supervision and direction by Nigel Lilley, orchestrations by Chris Walker, hair & wigs by Richard Mawbey, lighting by David Howe and sound design by Gareth Owen.
This is a really slick production and features some outstanding performances by all the cast (particularly Tamsn Outhwaite as Charity and Jack Edwards as Herman the bar owner chap).
The familiar songs are very well done and Tamsin can sing and dance too. I did however find the story a bit thin and some the show could really do with a few more memorable songs (Tell me its not true - Blood brothers for example) to really hold it together.
I did like the slightly tongue in cheek take on 'Hey big spender' and once again the dance routines here were fantastic.
The male lead (Mark Umbers) does well in a difficult and varied role but it is harder to warm to him as much as you do Tamsin.
All in all I give this 7/10 and I think with time it could develop into something really good.
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