Monday, 21 April 2025

Closer to Heaven


Closer to Heaven, Union Theatre, 2015.

Cast: Katie Meller, Jared Thompson, Amy Matthews, Connor Brabyn, Ben Kavanagh, Craig Berry, Ken Christiansen, Ellie Mitchell, Tamsin Blake, Grace Reynolds, Martin Harding, Ben Somerside, Jamie Firth, Alex Tranter.

Music & lyrics: Pet Shop Boys
Book: Jonathan Harvey
Director: Gene David Kirk

My second viewing of this show but possibly not the first revival of it - I think it had been done in Brighton and Australia before this. Lovely little theatre in some railway arches that I really should go back to. This was the first time the last song got changed and it all made a bit more sense.

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