Curtains

Curtains, Norwich Theatre Royal, 2020.

Cast: Jason Manford, Carley Stenson, Rebecca Lock, Samuel Holmes, Ore Oduba, Leah Barbara West, Alan Burkitt, Martin Callaghan, Emma Caffrey, Mark Sangster, Adam Rhys-Charles, Nia Jermin, Minal Patel, J R Ballantyne, Samuel John-Humphreys, Thomas-Lee Kidd, Charlie Johnson, Kate Ivory Jordan, Gleanne Purcell-Brown, Kathryn Barnes, Robin Kent, Pamela Blair, Ben Munday.

Book: Rupert Holmes

Original book & concept: Peter Stone

Music: John KAnder & Fred Ebb

I loved this! A musical about a crime - the perfect evening out for a gay who loves crime novels. I liked it so much that I went to see it a few weeks later on the tour in Northampton. I'd have happily seen it again but then Covid cancelled the tour. They did an online screening of it which I watched and loved but when everything got back to normal all those things that were halted seemed to get forgotten about, as if people were ashamed of them somehow and wanted to forget they'd ever happened. Jason Manford was especially good.