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Review written in March 2008. In fact it ran for nine years with a transfer to the Piccadilly Theatre. The story of their background from blue collar workers of New Jersey, some with a record for small time crime to stardom is very different. The thing is that the real story of these New Jersey boys is interesting enough to form the book of a musical without resorting to unlikely story lines designed to “fit” existing lyrics.

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REVIEW: Death Drop, the Garrick back on May 19th

Some of the audience were the best dressed and the most exotic, over six foot high before you added 7 inch heels, with designer frocks and startlingly perfect make up and worthy of a show all by themselves. I have to confess I have not been into drag but seeing these figures of perfection, tall, elegant and striking, I could be, for the sheer artistry.

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REVIEW: The Dumb Waiter, Hampstead Theatre

The Dumb Waiter is a quintessential early Pinter play from 1960, one that feels almost Beckettian if not absurdist. It is set in a room, a situation with bags of sinister mystery with just two players. I always think of what the French writer Jean Anouilh said about Waiting for Godot on seeing Beckett's play for the first time in Paris in 1953. "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."

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