From the monthly archives:

February 2002

The Last Empress

by Philip Gowman on 16 February, 2002

in Event reports and reviews,Music,Performance arts

(Hammersmith Apollo, 1-16 February 2002) As I sat through this performance, I kept thinking Les Miserables. Musically, the show aims to emulate Les Mis, but fails for the same reason that Les Mis fails. The music is big, bombastic, not unpleasant, but in the end totally unmemorable. The other downside was that there was a [...]

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