Just watching the news, as is my habit, and there's a good long segment about the gorgeous Leanne Jones and her winning the Olivier for her role in Hairspray, she's such a sweetheart, and lots of lovely shiny show footage ( Read more... )

Just seen a clip on TV...  Ben Ellis as Link Larkin looks *SO* like the very young Cliff Richard!  Clip of Cliff, not Hairspray ( Read more... )

(I'm really not in the right mood to be writing reviews...)

Well, spectacular show!  I'd been purposefully avoiding it before seeing this production, so it was all new and fresh to me.   Nevertheless, I think anyone who has seen it on Broadway will find the production familiar.  Lovely sets, quite traditional trucks and flats with forced perspective ( Read more... )

= not fun ( Read more... )