We Will Rock You: Nostalgia Bucks

We Will Rock You is dripping with so much old-fart attitude you can almost smell it. A jukebox musical built to cash in on the songs of Queen, We Will Rock You is relentlessly nostalgic and condescending. The thesis of Ben Elton’s book can be boiled down to: “The...

Something Rotten! is so tasty!

Much to my surprise, Something Rotten! is very entertaining. I went in wary. I’d never heard of the show and all I knew about the plot was that somebody in Elizabethan England invents musical theatre. Okay, I thought, we’ll see … But then I got there, and I fell into...