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A polite veil seems to have been drawn over Graham Norton’s performance as Albin in Terry Johnson’s terrific production - following Douglas Hodge in the role was always going to be difficult, and critics were not invited to comment - but the gloves are off again for Roger Allam.
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And paired with Philip Quast, returning to the role of Georges, Albin’s life partner and nightclub owner, played for a time opposite Hodge by the lighter, fleeter Denis Lawson, he makes up a double act of sweet old darlings whose combined physical tonnage and baritonal lung power form a heavyweight threat to whimsical musical comedy lovers everywhere.
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Quast ain’t queeny, either, matching Allam in the beautiful, full-chested, resonating renditions of 'Song in the Sand' and 'Look Over There'. Johnson’s production is in fine fettle, and the male sextet of Cagelles are still simply stunning in Lynne Page’s brilliant, eye-watering choreography (those trim, firm buttocks, those somersaults, those splits, those ghostly white legs cycling upside down!).
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