» Review: The Rocky Horror Show
It’s the perennial show that seems to skip any real time warp, much loved and often much abused – not this time. David Badella makes a fine Frank; camp, lascivious and attractively dangerous. He not only looks the part but can sing up a storm too. The principals were all good but, in particular, Haley Flaherty. The Phantom chorus for me was a little too polished, too ‘jazz hands’, and they lacked that raw punkish edge of the original. Christopher Biggins did an excellent job but sadly over encouraged an audience who, dressed up and tanked up, had not bothered to swot up and did not know the correct – and to my mind irritating – responses and heckles. That said it was a ripping evening of fun.
Theatre Royal, 26 October
4/5
Andrew Kay
