Closer to Heaven, Above the Stag, 2019.
Cast: Adele Anderson, Blake Patrick Anderson, Maddy Banks, Ian Hallard, Rhys Harding, Billie Hardy, Aidan Harkins, Christopher Howell, Matthew Ives, Hollie Smith-Nelson, Mikulas Urbanek.
Music & lyrics: Pet Shop Boys
Book: Jonathan Harvey
Director: Steve Dexter
In an interview for their recent album Neil Tennant noted that although this show was considered a failure when it premiered it's about to get its fourth London revival. This production was the third of those revivals and the second revival I saw, and it was very good.
You need a good actor to play Billie Trix and carry the show and Adele Anderson is that, with years of performing in Fascinating Aida but her with her own personal life adding to the character. Excellent. I'd forgotten that Ian Hallard (Mark Gatiss's husband) was in it.
As I remember it the set was small and bright and the whole thing was packed with energy and I loved it.
This theatre is now closed and this was the only time I went to it. It was in an arch under the railway at Vauxhall, next to a gay sauna and opposite the M16 building which made me smile.
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